They might as well not drop the affiliation at all
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CBS owned CW affiliates to drop CW affiliation and go independent
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They might as well not drop the affiliation at all
Decades ago many affiliates declined to carry a number of network shows, particularly during daytime. Independent stations would happily pick them up as those shows would bring in viewers that otherwise would not have sampled the station.
It was always amusing to have a station refuse to carry a network prime time show due to “moral” reasons (translation: pressure from conservative churches) only to have an independent station pick it up.
There used to be a website with a thorough history of Kansas City’s KCIT, but it appears to have gone offline. Might be recoverable on the Internet Archive site.
And those days are long, long, long gone.
WADL in Detroit to be sold to Mission and Nexstar will be running it through an SSA so it looks like that’s where the CW will be going there.
Nexstar/Mission enters Detroit
tvnewscheck.com
Mission Broadcasting Buying WADL Detroit
Mission Broadcasting said it has agreed to acquire WADL Detroit from Adell Broadcasting Corp. The MyNetworkTV affiliate has been serving Detroit, the nation’s 14th largest market, since its launch in May 1989, and currently reaches nearly two million television households. Terms of the...
tvnewscheck.com
Can MNTV walking back to TV20?WADL in Detroit to be sold to Mission and Nexstar will be running it through an SSA so it looks like that’s where the CW will be going there.
That’s the one! Thanks for digging that up.
BTW the KCIT call has been used by the Fox affiliate in Amarillo since 1986.
Why is everybody on these boards so obsessed with MNTV? It's not even a network anymore, it's a "programming service" with off network repeats that also air on other channels. I don't believe that there is even a "pattern" to airing the 2 hour block of shows and do any stations even still ID as "My Network" affiliates?
KSMO-TV - Wikipedia
KSMO TV is a My Network affil in KC and is now a non-channel, they only exist as a channel number and subchannel number, shared among several other DTV signals.
I don't know if their ATSC 3.0 signal uses the call letters KSMO.
Kirk Bayne
What if WKBD was sold to Nexstar Media Group to keep their affiliate and to let the CW50 legacy live on.
KJZO is owned by Fox, so it cannot be KZJO, and WATL shouldn't have The CW.
The new KBHK branding will be "KBHK 44 Cable 12"
That's not happening. MNT is gone from Detroit with this announcement. WMYD is not taking it back, I can tell you that.
Umm... KZJO. KZJO is the MNT O&O station in Seattle. There's no KJZO anywhere.
We don't know yet if it will become KBHK again. Let the process play out first before any such changes, such as callsigns, are made.
Wish but its simply not real life. In practice it would have to be marketed as CBS Bay Area+ and its an extension of KPIX.
KRBK | Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
www.nexstar.tv
For those in the Bay area asking for KBHK to return. Chances are very slim and it's like CBS wanting to get the old KRBK-TV back on the now KMAX-TV Sacramento not going to happen given that these call letters KRBK-TV are now owned by Nexstar for a Springfield, MO Fox affiliate.
I believe that they are the license holder for the ATSC 3.0 signal, but their programming is technically on it's third subchannel.KSMO-TV - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
KSMO TV is a My Network affil in KC and is now a non-channel, they only exist as a channel number and subchannel number, shared among several other DTV signals.
I don't know if their ATSC 3.0 signal uses the call letters KSMO.
Kirk Bayne
Even if San Francisco’s KBCW doesn’t revert to KBHK, I have a feeling that its callsign will change, since I have a hard time believing that Paramount would want call letters that reference a network owned by a competitor. But I’ve been wrong before. To me, KBCW keeping that callsign after the disaffiliation from The CW is equivalent to San Diego’s KSWB keeping those calls, despite it having been almost 17 years since The WB ceased to exist and, like the above-mentioned KRBK in Springfield, MO, now being a Nexstar-owned Fox affiliate.KRBK | Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
For those in the Bay area asking for KBHK to return. Chances are very slim and it's like CBS wanting to get the old KRBK-TV back on the now KMAX-TV Sacramento not going to happen given that these call letters KRBK-TV are now owned by Nexstar for a Springfield, MO Fox affiliate.
As for Sacramento’s KMAX, I can understand not changing those calls after that station disaffiliates from The CW, since that callsign doesn’t reflect the channel’s soon-to-be-former network affiliation; or any network affiliation, for that matter. In fact, according to Wikipedia, the callsign stands for “Maximum Entertainment, per old station advertisement.”
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True and also KMAX has been used in Channel 31 Sacramento for nearly 25 years.
Mgomrjsurf
Banned
On Cable TV up by the other Local Channels OTA before its Digtal Sub Channels. Yes push back an hour My Network TV programming to 8pm.
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