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CW To Be Sold? Nexstar Among The Suitors.

Y2kTheNewOldies said:
Good point because in some cities Nexstar got Fox affiliates KSWB, KTXL, WXIN, WJW a few years ago from Tribune. They were the largest Fox Affiliates outside the Fox Owned stations. I doubt Nexstar will remove the Fox affiliations from those stations and also parts of this is revenue access from NFL games too that air on Fox Sports.

Likewise I doubt Nexstar managed KLAS-TV would lose their CBS affiliation parts of this is that KLAS-TV is the home station for Raider Games whenever CBS Sports is airing them.
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Nexstar might get a duopoly by acquiring the the former MNTV turned H&I station managed by Sinclair. In the event if Sinclair keeps KVCW's CW affiliation, Nexstar might buy the former MNTV affiliation as well and make more news on behalf of KLAS.
 
Aquarius said:
Actually where I live in San Antonio, the CW does air preseason Houston Texan games and Dallas Cowboys games. They also air local high school and college football games, so adding sports is not out of the question.



In San Antonio it’s already been a sub channel of WOAI our NBC affiliate for some time now. It used to be on channel 35 but that was replaced by DABL.
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Unless Nexstar sells some markets (they nearly reach their ownership cap btw). Nexstar might buy 35 probably.
 
3 potential scenarios

1. Sinclair might sell some "sidecar owned but Sinclair managed" stations and the legal duopoly stations, mainly in Nashville, YorkPA, Las Vegas, San Antonio, or even Scranton will possibly swaps with Tegna and EW Scripps (which has an Ion station in that market).

2. Fox might look at KUSI, Circle City Broadcasting, Sunbeam Television, or even WCCB. Fox might buy the MNTV affiliation and move to KICU, KRON picks up CW, KBCW will become independent and launch primetime new like KCAL

3. Paramount might sell KMAX and turn into Fox along with WUPA, WTOG, and WPSG and turned into MNTV O&Os. Paramount might use some savings from the sales to buy some more stations and launch new local news streaming channels (even in the event Nexstar nearly reaches the 39 percent cap plus UHF discount) for example Griffin Communications, Weigel's WCIU and change into an independent add more news via WBBMTV2 or syndie stuff if WGN joins CW again along with the Milwaukee duopoly of WDJT & WMLW with the latter joining CW meanwhile Sinclair might sell WVTV to either Hearst or Fox plus while changing affiliation to MNTV, a Baltimore CW station from a separate company managed by Sinclair with WUTB rejoining MNTV to reduce sidecar conflict either if Sinclair buys WUTB or Hearst buys WUTB while maintaining a spectrum sharing deal Sinclair's flagship Fox affiliate WBFF and finally WKMG Orlando from Graham Holdings.
 
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TVCOOL said:
Well minor league hockey on the CW would get more viewers than the WNBA.
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LOL :LOL:

In certain individual DMAs, perhaps...on a national scale, nope...just no. Not a chance in hell, and certainly not in any of our individual lifetimes. The WNBA would have a much better chance drawing audiences on The CW and any other broadcast network than minor league hockey ever would. This isn't Canada or Russia, where hockey is the dominant sport in the former, and a strong second in the latter.

When the major league circuit on this continent (NHL) has historically had a hard time finding a consistent audience on American network TV, on what planet do you think minor league hockey would ever succeed on national broadcast television?
 
In Philly PHL 17 will probably become CW. It currently runs the My Network TV programming service. Will WPSG/57 switch to airing My Network's programming? If they do it will become a rare CBS owned My Network station like WSBK/38 in Boston.

In Hartford/New Haven WCTX/59 will probably take CW from Tegna's WCCT-TV/20. Will Nexstar cancel its 2 1/2 year old 8PM and 9PM Newscasts on WCTX to air CW programming in pattern or delay it til 11:35PM like they do with the My Network programming? Will WCCT-TV pick up the programming from My
Network?
 
Nexstar has long-term plans to make The CW profitable by producing cheaper programming for a broader audience. The plans may or may not include scripted shows produced by Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery beyond the 2022-23 season.

Article from Deadline
 
DarrenVision said:
or Fox walks back to WCCB and sell WMYT to Gray creating a duopoly with WBTV providing even more news competition in Charlotte
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I don’t think Charlotte needs four 10:00 newscasts and possibly four morning newscasts after 7:00 as much as I would like a WBTV/WMYT duopoly. But WBTV would make better use of WMYT.
 
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nelsonincharlotte said:
I don’t think Charlotte needs four 10:00 newscasts and possibly four morning newscasts after 7:00 as much as I would like a WBTV/WMYT duopoly. But WBTV would make better use of WMYT.
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Maybe Scripps might bring Ion to Charlotte either WAXN or WHKY even at expense of dropping news competitor in both morning and primetime news. Maybe a hispanic network like Univision or Telemundo since WSOC has Telemundo on 9.2. Charlotte has enough independents to get Ion or a Spanish network.
 
Ryan Williams said:
"The CW" is a dreadful name. I wonder if a rebrand is in the works. Certainly they have had a lot of time to thinking about it as they were putting this deal together over the last months.
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they didn't rebrand UPN when Viacom gained control, rebranding is expensive for the affiliates, many WB affiliates were still using MJ Frog until the very end of the WB network even after the network killed him
 
nomadcowatbk said:
Is there anything stopping stations in Lubbock airing the Chiefs if they want to pay for them? some places get regional pre season games from up to 4 teams (Omaha, Des Moines, Albuquerque)
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The only rule really is a team can't go into another's team primary market unless its allowed. Example is Charlotte where WSOC got the rights to the Commanders (Washington) and apparently WJZY signed off on it as they carry the Panthers.

Lubbock could carry the Chiefs if they wanted (ans someone paid for it)

Hawaii and Alaska have numerous teams on pre-season. Alaska has 5 teams and Honolulu has up to 7 teams games
 
DarrenVision said:
Maybe Scripps might bring Ion to Charlotte either WAXN or WHKY even at expense of dropping news competitor in both morning and primetime news. Maybe a hispanic network like Univision or Telemundo since WSOC has Telemundo on 9.2. Charlotte has enough independents to get Ion or a Spanish network.
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Ion is already on WJZY 46.6. I suppose it could move.
 
Mr Tony said:
Example is Charlotte where WSOC got the rights to the Commanders (Washington) and apparently WJZY signed off on it as they carry the Panthers.
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WSOC previously had Washington rights before they got the Panthers rights in 2019. There was one week where they weren’t allowed to air a Washington game live because it went head to head with a Panthers game. WAXN aired it on tape delay the next night. Yet the Panthers had no problem with 2 stations carrying their game Saturday. Go figure. I am not sure if WJZY had a say. Would you want a rival station also carrying your game? I think it was the Panthers who had to sign off.
 
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