Perhaps we are confusing potentially financially advantageous (and that’s debatable based on the circumstances) with actual prestige.
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CW To Be Sold? Nexstar Among The Suitors.
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I was going to ask the same thing. Las Vegas is not a particularly good radio and TV market financially (too many stations and low revenue*) and there is no particular "badge of honor" in owning a station there.
In radio, 30th market in size but 38th in revenue. In TV is does a bit better, but it is TV market 40, not very large.
But it is a smaller market and sports or other programming depends on market size for revenue.
1. My Network TV is a "programming service". Basically, it's like a broadcast version of a cable network.
2. ViacomCBS isn't being forced to sell The CW. They, along with WarnerMedia has agreed to sell it.
Tribune never had a stake in The CW. They just had an affiliation deal with most of the stations that was affiliated with The WB (which they did own a stake of).
WTXX as it was known was a WB affiliate before the merger.
Indeed, it's a loss leader that still holds value for Nexstar, CBS and WB.
Why would they drop a big 4 for a CW affiliate?
Why would they need too? They might already own the affiliates. Now our local Nexstar market has My TV, while Tegra owns the CW affiliate.
The only parties affected by the CW deal would be KRON(Nexstar owned), KBCW( CBS Owned), KICU Fox owned getting the My Network affiliation from KRON , WCIU and WGN. I can see this happening in San Francisco where KBCW could end up being converted into an independent and CBS secondary in the event KPIX has to air breaking news.
I now revise my argument over Sacramento getting the CW to KTXL 40 not going to happen. CW will stay on KMAX 31 a CBS managed CW affiliate.
KTXL gets money whenever NFL games are on and its one of the largest Fox affiliates managed by Nexstar.
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Fox4kc could add then a 4pm Newscast.
I'll change my thoughts on Jackson, TN as well. I think that CW+ could end up on a subchannel of WJKT Fox 16.
Maybe the end of The CW and Nexstar to revamp the network? (They already changed WGN America to NewsNation)
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The future of the CW looks bleak, and not even the DC superheroes can save it.
They changed WGNA because the previous format of the channel (old sitcoms) made no sense in a world where anyone can see M*A*S*H reruns on demand.
The CW at least has a sensible strategy right now. But, if the network is unprofitable, as alleged in a couple of articles this week, who knows what Nexstar could be planning.
The CW at least has a sensible strategy right now. But, if the network is unprofitable, as alleged in a couple of articles this week, who knows what Nexstar could be planning.
The key to improving profitability is to improve the quality of the affiliates. So that's what I think this is about. They might also add an extra hour of programming to make it a full time prime time network.
Maybe one hour on Sunday, 7:00-8:00 pm ET, but that would be it. Affiliates of The CW use the 10:00-11:00 pm ET time slot for local newscasts.
Do a purge of it's current programming.
Nah. Why would they want to do that? At least The CW is being an alternative by going to 8:00-10:00 p.m. ET on Sundays since nobody else is doing that! And after all, The CW has always been the major *alternative* network across the 5 major networks we got now.
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