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What Are The CW's Strongest Affiliates?
- Thread starter DToTheJ
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DToTheJ said:
IMHO, I would say WPSG in Philadelphia.
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musicman3355
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I'm only counting stations with local news so I would say...
WPIX NYC
KTLA Los Angeles
WGN Chicago
KBCW San Francisco
WPSG Philadelphia
XETV Tijuana (serving San Diego)
KWGN Denver
WPIX NYC
KTLA Los Angeles
WGN Chicago
KBCW San Francisco
WPSG Philadelphia
XETV Tijuana (serving San Diego)
KWGN Denver
The CW is such a mess. How to take two small networks, put them together and make an even smaller network. Maybe it's just me but at times I thought the WB and UPN were pretty good.
KTLA was at it's strongest as an independent (which I pray it returns back to).
As The CW, not so much.
As The CW, not so much.
Supposedly, WBNX/55 here is one of the stronger CW affiliates.
Mike Sheridan said:
They were. The CW took all the diversity out of the merger and threw it in the trash while making up mostly crap in the process. The only decent shows on there these days is the Vampire Diaries and Supernatural.
I think outside of the KTLAs of the world (WGN, etc.), news really doesn't matter in this mythical contest of "strongest CW affiliates".
VERY few CW affiliates do news of any sort, outside of either the very largest markets, or some who run secondary casts produced by other network affiliates.
VERY few CW affiliates do news of any sort, outside of either the very largest markets, or some who run secondary casts produced by other network affiliates.
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kenrayc
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That would be KTLA 5.
WCWG Greensboro, NC was a big CW affiliate (and WB before that, as WTWB) in the days of analog TV. Supposedly they had the strongest digital signal in the market, but I get four other stations perfectly and have frequent pixillating with them now. It didn't happen when DTV first started, and I was told they would upgrade when the shut down the analog station. Nope, no change. So I watch WJZY on cable. I suppose since they have a WBTV-produced newscast they are stronger.
Not "Smallville"? The quality seems to be going up.kilamanjero said:
JeeperOne
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Snip.....musicman3355 said:
Where the news is produced by KDVR 31, the FOX affiliate? I think not.
Not only that, but they time shift CW primetime to a 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM block, which is hybrid for a Mountain Time Zone station. That would be like KMGH 7 running ABC primetime from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM because they have the #3 newscast (Which of course ABC would never let them do even if they wanted to).
But getting back to KWGN 2, it is one of THE WORST rated stations in town. Only KTVD 20 (MyNetwork TV), KRMA 6, KBDI 12 (Both PBS), KCDO 3 (RTV) & the Godcasters are worse off than KWGN is. In fact, DARE I SAY IT but I would venture to say that even the Latin stations get more viewers than KWGN does (Univision affiliate KCEC 50 MOST CERTAINLY would).
The only reason why Local TV even bothers with KWGN is because it's a good place to dump some cheap programming on & makes them more $$$. KTVD 20 does the same thing for Gannett.
KWGN even has the local OTA rights to the (Now) World Champion Colorado Rapids MLS regular season games. That's how hard up the station has become.
Just my opinion.....
Cheers
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