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Strongest WB / UPN Affiliates Back In The Day?

Gotta put in a vote for WBNX/55 in the Cleveland market (now CW, natch).

They are still sentimental over their WB days...so much so that a Michigan J. Frog neon sign is still on the side of their suburban Akron building to this day.

The station transformed from a "family friendly independent" into a power in the market with the WB affiliation, which was previously handled off-pattern by then-UPN affiliate WUAB/43.

(You do realize that if this message series gets to "Strongest DuMont affiliates", I'm gonna have to drag my friend Clarke Ingram over from the Pittsburgh board...)
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
(You do realize that if this message series gets to "Strongest DuMont affiliates", I'm gonna have to drag my friend Clarke Ingram over from the Pittsburgh board...)
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I think it is Clarke who makes the case that DuMont, after years of dormancy, is now Fox. It certainly was built from a couple of the core foundation stations of A.B. DuMont's network. And isn't Fox using what was a DuMont facility in New York?

And of course Fox's Family Guy is just an updated version of The Honeymooners...right? :)
 
Bob E. Nelson said:
I think it is Clarke who makes the case that DuMont, after years of dormancy, is now Fox. It certainly was built from a couple of the core foundation stations of A.B. DuMont's network. And isn't Fox using what was a DuMont facility in New York?
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It's a little more direct than that (that the core stations of the network became Fox outlets).

After the network folded and A.B. DuMont was eventually forced out of the company, the broadcasting holdings became known as Metropolitan Broadcasting Company. John Kluge bought out Paramount Pictures' share of the company in 1960 and renamed it Metromedia. In 1986 News Corp bought the remaining Metromedia television properties in New York, L.A., Chicago, Dallas, Boston, Washington, and Houston, and made them the first O&O's of the Fox Broadcasting Company.
 
I read somewhere that WUPA Atlanta was the strongest UPN affiliate with WJZY Charlotte at Number 2. I know WJZY's sister station WMYT (then WWWB) was a strong WB affiliate.
 
KMSP 9 in Minneapolis was a pretty strong UPN outlet back in the day. Then FOX bought them, along with WFTC 29 (the FOX affiliate), and swapped affiliations between the two.

KMSP had a lot going for it. A strong independent for years (after ABC ditched them in the 70s) with a news division (WFTC didn't have news until FOX bought them). Now they're a pretty strong FOX O&O.
 
wncc said:
I read somewhere that WUPA Atlanta was the strongest UPN affiliate with WJZY Charlotte at Number 2. I know WJZY's sister station WMYT (then WWWB) was a strong WB affiliate.
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WUPA here in Atlanta was a great UPN affiliate. Back then you could tell they catered to the African American popultation. They were one of the only stations here that was actual crystal clear with a pair of rabbit ears.
 
WTWB Greensboro, NC was a strong WB affiliate. No sports pre-emptions, great signal ...

WCWG shows sports now and their signal has been lousy ever since DTV.
 
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