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The CW to Change its name?

MarcB

MarcB

While at the library yesterday I read Tuesday's New York Times. There was an article about the new 'CW' Network. It mentioned they may change the network's name before it launches this fall. It went on to say that they threw the name CW together very quickly.http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/02/business/media/02network.htmlOn a related note in the weekly altenative newspaper The Hartford Advocate there is an ad for Friends & That 70s Show on WB20 and at the bottom of the ad it says "Coming This Fall The All New CW20."
 
Moonves said that the CW was here to stay, but I never believe a word he says. If they are going to change it, they need to do it ASAP before more stations change call letters and start promoting it on air. I have a feeling the CW is going to be one big mess.
 
Read the story carefully, and others that have been written in the past several weeks: They mulled changing the name, but decided against it. It's too late now. "The CW" is sticking, unfortunately.
 
I can see why they would change the name. In ham radio language, "CW" means morse code.
 
almaniac27 said:
I can see why they would change the name. In ham radio language, "CW" means morse code.
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What? What's this? A new Country and Western network?Hope it does better than Nashville network did.( ;) You all know I'm kidding...right?)
 
You know, just because people recognize a name doesn't mean they like it. I know the name Hitler, but I don't support it.
 
Doctah said:
They mulled changing the name, but decided against it. It's too late now. "The CW" is sticking, unfortunately.
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Much to the relief of the soon-to-be CW affiliate here in Houston, which just changed its call to KHCW from KHWB. They sure would have been steamed at a name change.
 
Doctah said:
Read the story carefully, and others that have been written in the past several weeks: They mulled changing the name, but decided against it. It's too late now. "The CW" is sticking, unfortunately.
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Like everyone else, I hate "The CW" as a name, but I'd change that to "fortunately". Did you see some of the proposed names before you had to register to see the article?"Evo network?" "Now network?" Those are cable names. "XYTV?" "NXTV?" Ooh, how "hip!" "Angle Network?" Those names make "CW" sound good. If that's the best they could come up with, they deserve a name as s***** as CW.
 
Morgan Wick said:
Doctah said:
Read the story carefully, and others that have been written in the past several weeks: They mulled changing the name, but decided against it. It's too late now. "The CW" is sticking, unfortunately.
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Like everyone else, I hate "The CW" as a name, but I'd change that to "fortunately". Did you see some of the proposed names before you had to register to see the article?"Evo network?" "Now network?" Those are cable names. "XYTV?" "NXTV?" Ooh, how "hip!" "Angle Network?" Those names make "CW" sound good. If that's the best they could come up with, they deserve a name as s***** as CW.
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now tv sounds good
 
I suppose it's the old tradition that networks have to have initials. All except one do - CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS, UPN, even the WB. (And so on through cable - ESPN, CNN, etc.) Even in a lot of stories, FOX is written in all caps as if it was an acronym instead of properly being written as a word, Fox. Force of habit. MyNetwork will be the second to break the trend, and of course, it's Fox's sister. Damn you, you unalphabetical Murdoch!
 
:D Well I think a name like the LMIAAJ network wouldn't fly in most papers. Oh..."LMIAAJ" would stand for "Les Moonves Is An Arrogant Jerk." :p
 
I like My Network TV as a name, better than CW, although I think it implies something that, by all appearances, isn't there. Some of those "proposed" names sound way too much like they were trying too hard to be "hip". Can you imagine saying "I wonder what's on the Angle network today"? Or "Hey, I like that new show on Evo"? Or "I hear the lineup for NXTV is going to be off the hook." Trust me, CW sounds a lot better after all that. And trust me, if they'd announced any of those as the actual name, everyone would be flooding the boards proclaiming how much they suck."Now" is... eh... passable, but a little too plain. The others? Must have been smoking something at those meetings.
 
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