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CW MY TV Network and ION
- Thread starter e-dawg
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These networks don't really care about high ratings.
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FreddyE1977
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What are three networks most likely to be shut down by the EPA for
all the greenhouse gas they create in wasted electricity? ???
all the greenhouse gas they create in wasted electricity? ???
FreddyE1977 said:
Nah, the EPA would have to shut down the affiliates, not the actual networks.
Personally, I think ION should just transition into a full-fledged cable network. The amount of revenue it'd get just from selling all of its O&O stations would, I think, pay for a fair amount of original programming.
Even PAX had some original programming
e-dawg said:
No. Of the 3, the CW is in the most jeopardy. It has the highest overhead and ratings are sometimes lower than Ion or My Network TV.
Ion and My are low-overhead operations that serve their owners quite well.
CW will be around at least until the agreements that the former WB and UPN affiliates signed expire, but would all those stations fill pretime with if CW went off the air?
nomadcowatbk said:
Movies, sports, and syndicated reruns at best if they go back to being like independent stations were in the past, but I'm afraid too many would go to more trash talk, coutroom shows, and infomercials like most of them have in the daytime.
anotherguy said:nomadcowatbk said:
Movies, sports, and syndicated reruns at best if they go back to being like independent stations were in the past, but I'm afraid too many would go to more trash talk, coutroom shows, and infomercials like most of them have in the daytime.
I know WGN-TV would like to go back to being an independent. With all the sportscasts that get farmed out to WCIU, that's programming that they'd like to air, if they weren't having to commit to CW programming. Should WGN-TV get sold to someone else, I don't know what would happen to the contracts for all the sportscasts, & if the new would even want the sportscasts. For CW itself, there's another 4 years before we know if CW goes under.
The CW's problem is its overtly targeted programming towards 18-24 year old females exclusively while only throwing a bone every once in a while to other demographic groups. The former WB and UPN actually targeted a variety of demographics throughout their existence. If somebody at CBS and Time Warner would wake up and realize this then the network could actually survived and possibly thrive in the long term. It started out pretty good then somewhere in 2009 it went to garbage.
If the CW did go belly up then most of its stations in medium and smaller markets would struggle to stay on air because many are struggling to stay afloat now.
If the CW did go belly up then most of its stations in medium and smaller markets would struggle to stay on air because many are struggling to stay afloat now.
kilamanjero said:
most CW stations are sister stations of another network affiliate or subchannels, some people who think they programs those stations had on in the pre-UPN/WB era would work again but a lot of that programming has moved to cable
tested said:
Maybe all this is true, but USA Today lists only the CW in its weekly ratings. They consider the top six networks to be CBS, Fox, NBC, ABC, Univision, and the CW, and those are the only broadcast networks they list; they list all the top 15 cable show regardless of network (although that's usually ESPN, with a sprinkling of TNT and Fox News Channel).
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