THE CW in Shreveport

[arklatexradioguy]

anybody know what will happen to UPN 21 and WB 45

 

[osr]

> anybody know what will happen to UPN 21 and WB 45
>
I'm not familiar with Shreveport at all, however, I know that the Tribune stations have been given first crack at the new CW network. If your WB 45 is owned by Tribune, I would expect it to be the home for CW. Also, is your UPN affiliate Fox O&O? If so, this would also lean the CW to be placed on 45, with 21 turning to an independent station run by your Fox affiliate.

 

[RFLA]

> > anybody know what will happen to UPN 21 and WB 45
> >
> I'm not familiar with Shreveport at all, however, I know
> that the Tribune stations have been given first crack at the
> new CW network. If your WB 45 is owned by Tribune, I would
> expect it to be the home for CW. Also, is your UPN affiliate
> Fox O&O? If so, this would also lean the CW to be placed on
> 45, with 21 turning to an independent station run by your
> Fox affiliate.
>

The WB affliate is owned by a subsidiary of the same people who own the Fox outlet in town (and it's a company from Lafayette,La) whereas the UPN affliate is owned by locals.

What everyone is waiting on, is the UPN affliate flipped to DTV only in 2005 wheras 45 is running on seperate analog and DTV channels currently.... So does CW go with the DTV only and possibly loose people in the near term or do you go with the established station with seperate analog and DTV channels...

The world would love to know

RFLA