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WBNX to be acquired by Nexstar & re-affiliate with the CW in Fall 2025 creating a duopoly with FOX affiliate WJW

Lou Grant to Mary Richards, 1970:
"The assistant producer's job pays ten dollars a week less than the secretarial job. If you can get by on fifteen dollars a week less, I'll make you a producer!"
Hasn't changed since then.
 
Another new wrinkle is that WJW will be sliding some FOX pregame programming over to 55 stating this weekend.

On Saturdays, the 1st hour of Fox's "Big Noon Kickoff" college football pregame show (10-11a), will now air on the soon to be CW 55, as Fox 8 has commitments to air a weekly infomercial from a local car dealership during that time.

On Sundays, "Fox NFL Kickoff" - the warmup show from 11a-noon which airs prior to the main "Fox NFL Sunday" pregame show - will also slide over to WBNX, as channel 8 airs their local "Orange and Brown Countdown" Browns pregame show during this time.

In prior years, WJW slid these shows over to 8.2, which is the home of Antenna TV.
 
Nathan Obral said:
Turns out WBNX's afternoon rebroadcast of New Day Cleveland is a permanent addition. The Beacon Journal confirms a few things but also states the 11 p.m. newscast will be on 8 and 55, which may or may not be in error as nothing else substantiates this, not even Nexstar-owned Gracenote (the former Zap2It).

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Wouldn't be the first time a duopoly simulcast or repurposed programming.

Here in L.A., KCOP/13 simulcasts the last hour of KTTV's "Good Day LA" (titled "GDLA+") from 11:00am to noon every weekday. Ditto "Good Nite LA" at 11:30pm.

Also, KCBS/2 simulcasts the 5:00am hour of KCAL/9's "KCAL Mornings" (and the news on both stations is branded as KCAL).
 
txchipk said:
Who knew there was such a demand to warrant 6 episodes of "Family Fued" every day?
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The aforementioned KCAL/9 runs four episodes per day (two in the hour before their prime-time news block and two more after their 10:00pm newscast) plus two more in mid-afternoon on their "KCAL+" 9.6 subchannel.
 
Do we think that they'll stream the 11:00 newscast on the Fox 8 streaming app? I'm curious to see if they have a separate news desk for that broadcast (maybe an old set that they can redress for The CW, or maybe they'll just use the 8am couch) or if they just leave the "CLEVELAND'S OWN FOX 8 NEWS" advertising on their new broadcast on a different station.

I'm also curious as to how long the separate/new branding is going to last before it becomes just another Fox 8 newscast. Remember, back when 4:00 premiered, how they tried to make it more appealing and "cool," unlike the other newscasts, and how long that lasted?
 
vjm said:
Another new wrinkle is that WJW will be sliding some FOX pregame programming over to 55 stating this weekend.

On Saturdays, the 1st hour of Fox's "Big Noon Kickoff" college football pregame show (10-11a), will now air on the soon to be CW 55, as Fox 8 has commitments to air a weekly infomercial from a local car dealership during that time.

On Sundays, "Fox NFL Kickoff" - the warmup show from 11a-noon which airs prior to the main "Fox NFL Sunday" pregame show - will also slide over to WBNX, as channel 8 airs their local "Orange and Brown Countdown" Browns pregame show during this time.

In prior years, WJW slid these shows over to 8.2, which is the home of Antenna TV.
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WXMI FOX17 in West Michigan also puts FOX NFL Kickoff on DT2 also Antenna TV kinda surprised that Nexstar didn't take when they bought Tribune in 2019. Since FOX17 airs Lions Gameday Live at 11AM to 12PM.
 
I hope the Family Feud syndication is broken up by eras, like how the Looney Tunes used to be: Some seasons are in syndication, some are only on GSN, and others are streaming on GSC.

Speaking of, did the Harvey Feud FAST channel ever start with full episodes, or is it still just a YouTube playlist on repeat?
 
jtakach98 said:
I hope the Family Feud syndication is broken up by eras, like how the Looney Tunes used to be: Some seasons are in syndication, some are only on GSN, and others are streaming on GSC.
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AFAIK, the syndication for the Harvey version is considered the "current" package. The Dawson/Combs shows are the "original" package and the rest are not considered to be in active syndication.

In any event, the stations running the shows have little (if any) to say about the matter.
 
snowdog88 said:
It's almost 11 AM and wbnx.com hasn't been overhauled or redirected to a sub page of fox8.com
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It's a paid holiday and WJW's digital team is most likely cooking brats in the backyard with their families. Same reason why the WMYT section of WJZY's website is still festooned with now-outdated "My 12" branding.

These changes do not automatically happen by robots. Humans have to initiate them.
 
snowdog88 said:
Aren't these all 3+ year old repeats anyhow? IDK, I stopped watching once Steve Harvey took over.
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Steve is *checks notes* from Cleveland. Maybe that's why the show plays so well here and why WJW stuck it at 7:30. Likewise, Judge Judy continues to do great in the ratings despite being in reruns for four years.

WBNX is damn lucky they have the syndication inventory that they do. The overall market for broadcast syndication industry-wide is practically moribund. Otherwise Nexstar would be dumping endless hours of Byron Allen court show slop and simulcasts of NewsNation onto the schedule.
 
Nathan Obral said:
These changes do not automatically happen by robots. Humans have to initiate them.
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True, but I would think that they would at least get something transferred over, even before the holiday weekend.

I see that WUAB has already flipped their logo on Gracenote to My (not a network) TV. Not sure when that happened, but I'm pretty sure it was still The CW when I last checked yesterday.

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Steve is *checks notes* from Cleveland. Maybe that's why the show plays so well here and why WJW stuck it at 7:30.
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Didn't know that. I'm not a fan of Steve Harvey, so I don't pay any attention.
 


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