The WB has bought up UPN and will now be known as the CW Network. In L.A. come fall 2006, KTLA will become the "CW 5" (I can see the eye-rolling in the marketing department now). KCOP will go back to being an indie. A chance for FOX to re-invent Channel 13 with a clean slate. Or they could just brand the station FOX 13 and provide endless re-runs of The Simpsons in Prime Time.
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The Return of Very Independent 13?
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daveandrews
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> The WB has bought up UPN and will now be known as the CW
> Network. In L.A. come fall 2006, KTLA will become the "CW
> 5" (I can see the eye-rolling in the marketing department
> now). KCOP will go back to being an indie. A chance for
> FOX to re-invent Channel 13 with a clean slate. Or they
> could just brand the station FOX 13 and provide endless
> re-runs of The Simpsons in Prime Time.
>
Maybe now they can get rid of that intrusive UPN 13 logo.
DOWN WITH SCREEN CLUTTER!!!!!
> Network. In L.A. come fall 2006, KTLA will become the "CW
> 5" (I can see the eye-rolling in the marketing department
> now). KCOP will go back to being an indie. A chance for
> FOX to re-invent Channel 13 with a clean slate. Or they
> could just brand the station FOX 13 and provide endless
> re-runs of The Simpsons in Prime Time.
>
Maybe now they can get rid of that intrusive UPN 13 logo.
DOWN WITH SCREEN CLUTTER!!!!!
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KMRichards
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> > The WB has bought up UPN and will now be known as the CW
> > Network. In L.A. come fall 2006, KTLA will become the "CW
>
> > 5" (I can see the eye-rolling in the marketing department
> > now). KCOP will go back to being an indie. A chance for
> > FOX to re-invent Channel 13 with a clean slate. Or they
> > could just brand the station FOX 13 and provide endless
> > re-runs of The Simpsons in Prime Time.
> >
>
> Maybe now they can get rid of that intrusive UPN 13 logo.
> DOWN WITH SCREEN CLUTTER!!!!!
I say, bring back "The Eight O'Clock Movie".
BTW, this was not a case of "The WB has bought up UPN", as the original poster said. Warner Bros., Tribune, and CBS have agreed to shut down the two original networks and partner to operate the new one.
KTLA becomes the CW affiliate by default; if CBS had owned the UPN affiliate I am certain they would have put it there, since they would have wanted at least one of the top-two market affiliates. As it stands, Tribune wins L.A. along with NYC and Chicago simply because CBS doesn't own the UPN stations in any of those three markets.<P ID="signature">______________
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> > Network. In L.A. come fall 2006, KTLA will become the "CW
>
> > 5" (I can see the eye-rolling in the marketing department
> > now). KCOP will go back to being an indie. A chance for
> > FOX to re-invent Channel 13 with a clean slate. Or they
> > could just brand the station FOX 13 and provide endless
> > re-runs of The Simpsons in Prime Time.
> >
>
> Maybe now they can get rid of that intrusive UPN 13 logo.
> DOWN WITH SCREEN CLUTTER!!!!!
I say, bring back "The Eight O'Clock Movie".
BTW, this was not a case of "The WB has bought up UPN", as the original poster said. Warner Bros., Tribune, and CBS have agreed to shut down the two original networks and partner to operate the new one.
KTLA becomes the CW affiliate by default; if CBS had owned the UPN affiliate I am certain they would have put it there, since they would have wanted at least one of the top-two market affiliates. As it stands, Tribune wins L.A. along with NYC and Chicago simply because CBS doesn't own the UPN stations in any of those three markets.<P ID="signature">______________
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There's that realpolitik again...
> KTLA becomes the CW affiliate by default; if CBS had owned
> the UPN affiliate I am certain they would have put it there,
> since they would have wanted at least one of the top-two
> market affiliates. As it stands, Tribune wins L.A. along
> with NYC and Chicago simply because CBS doesn't own the UPN
> stations in any of those three markets.
We know, of course, that CBS would gladly have moved the UPN affiliation from Fox's KCOP to its own KCAL, but for the fact that Fox would then have dealt UPN a death blow by pulling it from the Fox-owned affiliates it desperately needed in Chicago and New York.
You've got to wonder whether CBS considered trying to land The CW on KCAL as part of the merger - and whether it might have been willing to give up the CW affiliation to Tribune from its UPN affiliates in Philadelphia, Atlanta and Seattle (in addition to the UPN affiliations it's already giving up in Boston, Miami, Dallas and Indianapolis) in exchange for putting CW on KCAL.
That, however, would have left CBS with some weak standalone indies in Atlanta and Seattle and a weakish duopoly-partner indie in Philadelphia, and perhaps KCAL's already doing well enough that it would have been too much of a sacrifice.
(It probably doesn't hurt, either, that KTLA has significantly wider cable distribution than KCAL.)<P ID="signature">______________
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> KTLA becomes the CW affiliate by default; if CBS had owned
> the UPN affiliate I am certain they would have put it there,
> since they would have wanted at least one of the top-two
> market affiliates. As it stands, Tribune wins L.A. along
> with NYC and Chicago simply because CBS doesn't own the UPN
> stations in any of those three markets.
We know, of course, that CBS would gladly have moved the UPN affiliation from Fox's KCOP to its own KCAL, but for the fact that Fox would then have dealt UPN a death blow by pulling it from the Fox-owned affiliates it desperately needed in Chicago and New York.
You've got to wonder whether CBS considered trying to land The CW on KCAL as part of the merger - and whether it might have been willing to give up the CW affiliation to Tribune from its UPN affiliates in Philadelphia, Atlanta and Seattle (in addition to the UPN affiliations it's already giving up in Boston, Miami, Dallas and Indianapolis) in exchange for putting CW on KCAL.
That, however, would have left CBS with some weak standalone indies in Atlanta and Seattle and a weakish duopoly-partner indie in Philadelphia, and perhaps KCAL's already doing well enough that it would have been too much of a sacrifice.
(It probably doesn't hurt, either, that KTLA has significantly wider cable distribution than KCAL.)<P ID="signature">______________
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