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The UPN & WB Years?

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sctvman

In a way, I do miss UPN and WB despite their struggles in the industry. Does anybody miss UPN and the WB? Do you think that UPN and the WB were better networks compared to the new CW (which merged UPN and the WB to formed the CW) and the low-rated MyNetworkTV?

Also, do you think MyNetworkTV will survive? Will stations drop MyNetworkTV to go independent?
 
I still think WB and UPN should have stayed and ION (PAX?) should've left.
 
And what would ION leaving accomplish? As a general (but not always) rule competition is a good thing and I too think the WB and UPN were better off seperate, but eliminating ION would simply mean more infomercials. Yes I know they are mostly informercials but it would've been all infomercials.

MyNetwork TV is only a network in a the sense it gives the stations an identity and a few shows to air to save them some bucks. Basically it was an after thought.
 
Afterthought. WCTX-TV/DT channel 59/D 39 of New Haven is a MY affiliate. Except for the occasional Yankees game (carried from WWOR), I have no reason to watch them. I think the only thing keeping channel 59 afloat is that they're the "sister" station of WTNH-TV/DT (ABC) channel 8/D 10 of New Haven (ABC as long as I can remember).
 
At least UPN had "Star Trek Voyager" (possibly THE coolest in the franchise I think) and a number of other programmes I always found funny, even 12 years later on videotape, like "Platypus Man" or "Pig Sty". (Anybody else even remember those early UPN sitcoms?)

TheirNetwork sucks *****. Our "affiliate" (KPDX, channel 49/ATSC 48) has Frasier and South Park late at nights but overall it's pretty much been trashed. If I want to watch a mixed martial arts competition there's a far cooler one on Paxnet/Ion with the "fighting canine"-suggestive name...........

(Bodog Fight is probably the only thing I ever actually watch anymore on Pax, it is on 2300 PT on Saturday nights, right after all the British Comedies have ended on OPB.)
 
I had the distiction of working for an affiliate of both (First WB, then flipped to UPN.). "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" had the honor of having 2 network debuts on the same station.

WB- Miss Prime Time "Pinky & The Brain", "Unhappily Ever After", Wayans Bros."
Don't miss: Annoying "Dubba Dubba" campaign.

UPN Miss "Shasta McNasty", "Dilbert", "Home Movies", "Voyager"
Don't miss: "Enterprise", "The Secret Diary Of Desmond Pfiffer".

MyNetwork is more of a programming "block" than a network (like Paramount's old action block pre-UPN).
 
Obtuse1 said:
MyNetwork is more of a programming "block" than a network (like Paramount's old action block pre-UPN).
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You're probably thinking of the Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN), which was a joint venture of Warner Bros. and Chris-Craft (then-owners of WWOR and KCOP). Most of the affiliates were primarily with Fox and PTEN's shows came on after Fox's primetime programming; KFXF here in Fairbanks was one of them.

By the way...what led to UPN and WB becoming CW was the battle for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" after five seasons on WB. I think it was all about money and the show heading to UPN, but the issue was too vague.

Jonathan Allen
 
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