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Pathetic (understatement) across the board.
MarcB said:
I believe the answer may be no, but I'm lacking information on wether or not the Passions viewer compliments the vision of having good ratings with gameshows before and after it airs...
My Network is performing under expectations, but so far there have been no affiliate defections. As I've stated before, the network offers a very favorable ad split with the affiliates and I suspect that's placated a lot of worries over the lower than expected ratings. It also depends on which market you look at. In some markets, My Network is performing about as well as UPN did, in others it has almost no measurable audience.
The other thing probably keeping affiliates on board are the hirings of some veteran TV executives in recent weeks to come in and run the network. They may re-program it away from the telenovellas. They might bite on something like Passions. They may sell blocks of time to producers to put on whatever progamming they want. Who knows.
One way or another, My Network TV will probably stick around a lot longer than many expected.
The other thing probably keeping affiliates on board are the hirings of some veteran TV executives in recent weeks to come in and run the network. They may re-program it away from the telenovellas. They might bite on something like Passions. They may sell blocks of time to producers to put on whatever progamming they want. Who knows.
One way or another, My Network TV will probably stick around a lot longer than many expected.
I guess the only thing that matters is that it makes a profit or that it doesn't bleed too much money. I expect Murdoch didn't expect it to make a profit and could afford to let it bleed so long as it didn't hemorrhage too bad.
Then again where could the MY Network TV affilates go if they left?
Then again where could the MY Network TV affilates go if they left?
Mark said:
Unless some are willing to go the WSBK route, they would go right off the air. Which would be no big loss since barely anybody is watching the stations anyways.
WPWR 50 in Chicago will remain a My Network station as long as the network is on the air, due to Fox actually owning the station. If Newsweb corporation still owned the station today, it would have gone back to being an independent station, before UPN was formed in 1995. That station did well as an independent, even while it was on ch 60.
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They're not a superstation in my eyes anymore (WWOR). Anyways, I haven't watched WCTX-TV (MY) channel 59 of New Haven for more than 5 minutes at a time since their MY affiliation started. If they weren't the New York Yankees broadcast home in Hartford/New Haven, I wouldn't be watching a single second of them. Period.
MarcB said:
"Passions" is going to DirecTV.
M.J. said:
No, this is wrong. My Network fills only 2 hours a day of programming. If it went away (which isn't likely) the stations would just fill that hole with some other programming. They wouldn't go off the air.
It seems to me that more stations should dump MNTV and go to local programming in prime time, as long as it's movies or reruns of classic TV shows. Unfortunately I'm afraid a lot of them would go to more trash talk and courtroom shows in prime time. :-\
JeeperOne
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Hi everyone:
But when you really think about it, the way MyNetwork bills itself, MyNetwork is really a network of (basic) indies anyway. And since MyNetwork affiliates are all part of duopolies in large places such as New York, Chicago and Denver anyway, it just gives the owner of the duopoly a place to air local programming at times in which they would not be able to otherwise.
Just my $.02 worth
Cheers
Not only that, but due to the lack of viable alternatives (Unless there's someplace without a full service CW affiliate), there's really no place for the affiliates to go unless they go indie.tested said:
But when you really think about it, the way MyNetwork bills itself, MyNetwork is really a network of (basic) indies anyway. And since MyNetwork affiliates are all part of duopolies in large places such as New York, Chicago and Denver anyway, it just gives the owner of the duopoly a place to air local programming at times in which they would not be able to otherwise.
Just my $.02 worth
Cheers
1. WSBK did not go MyNetwork TV because they are owned by CBS in a market (Boston DMA), that has a Fox O & O, and likewise because the whole point of CW was to pull UPN off of Fox owned stations in markets where CBS owned duopolies (like Los Angeles, where KCAL is owned by CBS, but UPN was on Fox owned KCOP). So CBS was not about to put MyNetworkTV on WSBK.
2. More likely, is that CBS will wait for CW's contract with Sunbeam owned WLVI 56 to run out, and then take CW over to 38, especially since Sunbeam likes to cut costs (see WLVI layoffs) and MyNetwork TV carriage is free, while CW's is not. That's assuming MyNetwork TV survives, which I believe it will, but perhaps in a differnt form. And by the way, if you happen to watch WSBK or go to their website, http://www.tv38.com, pay close attention to the orange and light green colors, which just happen to be the same colors as the CW.
2. More likely, is that CBS will wait for CW's contract with Sunbeam owned WLVI 56 to run out, and then take CW over to 38, especially since Sunbeam likes to cut costs (see WLVI layoffs) and MyNetwork TV carriage is free, while CW's is not. That's assuming MyNetwork TV survives, which I believe it will, but perhaps in a differnt form. And by the way, if you happen to watch WSBK or go to their website, http://www.tv38.com, pay close attention to the orange and light green colors, which just happen to be the same colors as the CW.
Sure, sadden me some more. At this point, I could care less what happens to WSBK or any channel for that matter. TV38 sort of disappointed me this season by still airing crap from syndication. They stated they would make a legacy once again in Boston. I don't call Dr. Phil, ET, The Insider, Girls Behaving Badly, and Judge Maria Lopez legendary.
Now, I can't even watch a feed of RTN that plays old shows because the feed is not working. TV is getting SO bad.
All MyTV is is second rate programming.
Now, I can't even watch a feed of RTN that plays old shows because the feed is not working. TV is getting SO bad.
All MyTV is is second rate programming.
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Pat Cook said:Hi everyone:Not only that, but due to the lack of viable alternatives (Unless there's someplace without a full service CW affiliate), there's really no place for the affiliates to go unless they go indie.tested said:
But when you really think about it, the way MyNetwork bills itself, MyNetwork is really a network of (basic) indies anyway. And since MyNetwork affiliates are all part of duopolies in large places such as New York, Chicago and Denver anyway, it just gives the owner of the duopoly a place to air local programming at times in which they would not be able to otherwise.
Just my $.02 worth
Cheers
Doesn't ION (PAX) bill itself as a network of independent content as well? I don't see how since most of their programming is reruns and infomercials with the occasional Warner Bros. movie. Maybe some of these MNTV affiliates could jump over to ION if they are so unhappy but I don't think that ION allows its affiliates to broadcast syndicated content.
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