And so Joseph Gallantish too. Someone please tell me we're not going to let this become yet another episode of Radio-Info.com TV Board Speculation Theater here.That all said, and at the risk of sounding hypocritical given the above, here's my take on what will happen...Look...Let's remember that The WB now has a Daytime lineup (such that it is). Plus, a lot of current WB and UPN affiliates will not be a part of the new CW network for one reason or another. As such, it would be awkward (if not downright tacky) to force these stations to promote fall programming which they will never air by promoting the new fall lineup over the networks themselves. Given this, I would not be surprised if The CW just simply gave the ads to the affiliates to air during non-network times.Now, getting back to the Daytime lineup thing....There won't be a sign off/sign on like you would see when two local stations switch networks. That's because The WB has a Daytime lineup and UPN does not. Therefore any "sign off" will go unnoticed and any "sign on" will only be noticeable when they start saying stuff like Welcome To The New CW or You're Watching The New CW Daytime.As for MyNetwork TV, they will have a more traditional sign on as they are a completely new network. Just my opinionEthan Lopez said:
Cheers PatHoly smokes, Pat!! First the Clippers/Suns thread, and now this... you're off your meds today, aren't you?Pat Cook said:
Calm down man. There's no harm in a little speculation every now and then. It's not like Ethan is posting wild speculation in a contrived effort to be the first person to 10,000 posts. (Even if he is, he has a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally long way to go! ;D)Back to the topic, I don't know exactly how it will go down, but count on it happening with maximum fanfare.I'd suspect that it will be somewhat comparable to the affiliation swaps that happened in many markets during the mid-nineties when Fox upgraded its affiliate list. In other words, no color bars, static, slides, or anything of the sort -- remember, all the syndicated and local programming that surrounds the network programs will be unchanged. So it is really just a few hours a day that is changing. But I do recall that locally we did have specials running on the two affected stations in the mid-nineties to explain and promote the programming changes that were about to happen. Some stations may choose to do the same thing today -- run a half hour program a few days before the switch explaining what new programming they will have.Aside from that, as I recall, the CW was requiring that affiliates do a certain amount of on-air and off-air advertising of the new network and its programming in the period just before and just after the launch.Ethan Lopez said:
Now that would be worth seeing!! 8) Think you might be able to demo that for us?FreddyE1977 said:at 12:01 AM, the Starship Enterprise will move across the screen and blastMichigan J. Frog with a volley of photon torpedoes. Both will explode andvaporize, leaving the sparkling new CW logo floating in the background.
