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CW Afternoons

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jsu5381m

On the CW in the afternoons, reruns of What I Like about You and Reba have been replaced with Judge Jeannie Pro and Wayns Bros/Jamie Foxx reruns. My question is, is Jeannie Pro and Wayns/Jamie CW network shows, or are these syndicated programs that all CW stations were required to air in that slot?
 
Judge Jeanne Piro WAS to have been syndicated, but somewhere along the way, a deal with the CW Net was struck. It's their show now.
 
Wow, I had no idea CW was programming afternoons. I thought all network affiliates programed syndicated shows or news in the afternoon. How many hours a day/week does CW provide affiliates now?
 
poledo said:
Wow, I had no idea CW was programming afternoons. I thought all network affiliates programed syndicated shows or news in the afternoon. How many hours a day/week does CW provide affiliates now?
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it's a programming block that was there when the WB existed....if my math is correct, 25 hours a week (not including the kids block), 4 hours each weekday (2 in the afternoon, 2 in the evening
 
I think your math is correct. 25 sounds right to me. (3PM-5PM/8PM-10PM M-F and 5PM-10PM on Sundays). Throw in 5 hours of kids programming provided by 4 KIDS TV (7AM-12 Noon on Saturdays) and you're up to 30. Meanwhile MY NETWORK TV is doing only 12 hours a week just like UPN. MNT is on Monday-Saturday 8PM-10PM. UPN was on Monday-Friday 8PM-10PM and the UPN Movie Trailer on Saturday Mornings.

Random comments: "TXX-TV" the CW affiliate in Hartford does 4 KIDS TV Saturdays 7AM-10AM and Sundays 8AM-10AM because of a long standing contract to broadcast a Catholic Church Mass and related programming from 10AM-11AM. "MY TV 9" WCTX/59 runs the My Network Saturday Night Movie 10:35PM-1:35AM on Satudays because they show a pre-recorded High School Football Game 7PM-9:30PM. The same game that aired live the night before on their sister station's website wtnh.com
 
Personally, I think the CW could have spent that afternoon block better reviving the afterschool special for today's youth. The 4 o'clock hour could be spent creating some Ryan Seacrest interview type show.
 
jsu5381m said:
Personally, I think the CW could have spent that afternoon block better reviving the afterschool special for today's youth. The 4 o'clock hour could be spent creating some Ryan Seacrest interview type show.
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Fox tried that (not on the network level, but to most stations) a couple years ago and it bombed ("On Air with Ryan Seacrest")
 
How many hours a week does a network have to provide to it's affiliates to be considered a network? Something came up when Fox was new and the FCC wanted to change all the rules on them when they added the Joan Rivers Late Show. The extra 5 hours a week of programming would have put them in the same classification as ABC, CBS, & NBC. The details are fuzzy, everything from the 1980's is fuzzy.
 
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