Launching this fall, and will likely end up on WOCV-CD 35.6...
WEST (Western Entertainment Series Television)
WEST (Western Entertainment Series Television)
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Weigel Broadcasting Launching A New Network: WEST (Western Entertainment Series Television)
- Thread starter snowdog88
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There aren't enough shovelware DVD compilations of these already to satiate the few fans of Westerns who are still alive?
Not to mention the availability of existing OTA networks like Grit and Outlaw, which also air westerns and some of the same shows.
INSP is ranked at 18 out of the top 100 cable channels, so someone is watching Westerns. The recent viewing of Big Jake on May 26 had an audience of 440,000.
U.S. TV Ratings
U.S. TV Ratings
Just as long as Weigel doesn't create their own version of True Crime, Defy, Nosey, or similar networks, I'm fine with this new network. I'm not crazy about westerns, though some of the restored movies that Grit airs does make me want to stay tuned.
Yes. 60+ white males. The same group that is cable news biggest demographic.
Isn't the western-watching crowd more likely to be 80+ now? "Dances With Wolves" came out 35 years ago and "No Country for Old Men" was a 2007 release. I can't think of another hit western since then, and even those two were pretty radical departures from the genre that was so popular from the '40s through the '70s.
It's linear media's biggest demo and one that more than likely won't be replenished when they die off.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
This really belongs in National TV ... and it is:
True. I mentioned it here as I'm 100% certain that it will end up on the local Weigel O&O station WOCV-CD. Otherwise, I would have mentioned it on this thread, but it got locked.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
May I politely suggest, so as not to have the moderators think the thread is misplaced, that you make the subject line more local in the future?
Something like "Will WOCV carry the new Weigel West network?" would make it locally-focused, as you had intended.