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"UPN 11"

At that time (1998). Viacom decided to cancel 3 stations prime time newscast (WTOG -Tampa, KSTW-Seattle, and KMAX-TV Sacramento). Viacom only kept WKBD until CBS decided to gut their newscast in 2002. If Viacom didn’t cancel newscasts in these market. I bet that they will have newscast similar to Nexstar non big 4 network stations such as KTLA, WPIX, KRON, WGN.
 
e-dawg said:
At that time (1998). Viacom decided to cancel 3 stations prime time newscast (WTOG -Tampa, KSTW-Seattle, and KMAX-TV Sacramento). Viacom only kept WKBD until CBS decided to gut their newscast in 2002. If Viacom didn’t cancel newscasts in these market. I bet that they will have newscast similar to Nexstar non big 4 network stations such as KTLA, WPIX, KRON, WGN.
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Interesting. So Viacom is the villain? If so it is just a big corporate play as they are all owned by the same parent company if I am following this hot mess correctly.
 
e-dawg said:
At that time (1998). Viacom decided to cancel 3 stations prime time newscast (WTOG -Tampa, KSTW-Seattle, and KMAX-TV Sacramento). Viacom only kept WKBD until CBS decided to gut their newscast in 2002. If Viacom didn’t cancel newscasts in these market. I bet that they will have newscast similar to Nexstar non big 4 network stations such as KTLA, WPIX, KRON, WGN.
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In KMAX-TV's case the newscasts are now produced by KOVR 13 and CBSN Sacramento as of 2021.
 
valvashon said:
They passed on the Fox affiliation because that would have meant being dropped from many cable systems that would be carrying a nearby Fox affiliate, such as those in central and eastern Washington. Rather than carry KSTW and bother with blacking out the prime time network shows that the local Fox affiliate was airing (from KAYU for example) they would have just dropped KSTW altogether. Also, I'm pretty sure that KSTW was an independent in the 70's and beyond until the CBS era in 1995 and after that affiliated with UPN. KTWB was the local WB affiliate, being a Tribune station, and not KSTW.
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The conservatism of then-owner Gaylord Broadcasting may also have had something to do with them passing on becoming a Fox affiliate -- I don't recall that they were anxious to be associated with edgy programming.

As for KSTW and the WB, the fact is that both KSTW and KTVT were initially signed up to be WB affiliates, but when the opportunity to get CBS affiliations for both stations came along, Gaylord jumped in that direction instead. The result is that while those stations were signed up as WB affiliates, I don't believe any WB programming aired on either station (or, if it did, it was for a very, very brief period). As I recall, there were some threats from the WB regarding breach of contract suits, although I never heard that anything actually happened. But I can't imagine that the WB was very happy getting stuck with channel 22 in Seattle, since that station was barely hanging on by 1995.
 
e-dawg said:
I thought before the mid 1970s switch to the 10 O'clock news, KSTW had a half hour local news at 11pm called Newstar 11?
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It looks like they did have that half hour at 10 PM by the spring of 1977. But from memory, I want to say it was pretty new at that point, and that just a couple years earlier it had just been a ten minute newscast interrupting a prime time movie.
 
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