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Wake UPNews on.....CW57???

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Rockin Rob

In whose infinite wisdom lays the brains behind keeping the "Wake UPNews" ("everyone's favorite - sic- morning TV news show") channel-branded as UPN57? HELLO????????
 
It was long known that they would be keeping the name. its just that the UPN is de-emphasized. The way it reads on TV is Wake UP NEWS and UP and NEWS are on two different lines. And the "official" name of the station in "The CW Philly" but with that logo I've been hearing every variant possible.
 
All they need to do is make the "p" lower case.
Of course, this train wreck of a show is not likely to wake up anybody.
And, based on the ratings, it doesn't.
The "brains" are the traffic company.
The show is brokered.
The traffic people produce it.
Traffic reports on TV are like teats on a boar.
 
PhillyWatch said:
It was long known that they would be keeping the name. its just that the UPN is de-emphasized. The way it reads on TV is Wake UP NEWS and UP and NEWS are on two different lines. And the "official" name of the station in "The CW Philly" but with that logo I've been hearing every variant possible.
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Hmmm, well too me, what sounds best would be "Philly57, home of the CW network", but that doesn't work anymore. You have to have the network as part of the name, since they think when people talk about the channel, they will advertise it.

So with that CW57 sounds the best.

Now to take this a step futher. It would have been better had CW gone to PHL17, and Mynet-tv to 57. Then it could be CW17, and 57 could have had My Philly 57.
 
WBNX in Cleveland goes by "WBNX, The CW television network" according to Wikipedia (i know i know, wikipedia, but come on, the TV station pages are pretty well kept). No reason why we can have "Philly 57, home of the CW" or at least CW 57. Why bring back the old name if only to butcher it?
 
I think that one of the problems with news on 57 is that they just have the one morning show. If they had something at 10 the morning show may be a bit more natural.
 
It's not their show.
It's a brokered show.
Just like 700 Club.
 
they are going to keep the show around for a lot longer because they are building a studio at the KYW building.
 
buzzrockradio said:
they are going to keep the show around for a lot longer because they are building a studio at the KYW building.
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well not nessiceraly "a lot longer", who knows what could happen, but hopefully the show will improve at its new home. I wish that WPSG would go big into news too, but nothing will ever happen at 10 or 11. FOX 29 has 10 on lock and i doubt that two sister stations would want to go head to head. Maybe early evening news or a 3pm newscast. They could be the next station to claim the title of "Region's ONLY 7 pm newscast" now that its free.

Little side note, tonights breaking weather news had them do a picture in picture for a "Live Weather Update" with their fancy new CW graphics during Raymond, but their past seems to linger as the crawl read "From UPN57..." and ended with "Stay tuned to UPN57...". Can't forget your past.
 
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