EdCTA 2 Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Industry word is that Cleveland's WBNX is upgrading bandwidth, so very good news for the 2 new channels their adding December 1. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-217427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3951 Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 2 hours ago, EdCTA said: Industry word is that Cleveland's WBNX is upgrading bandwidth, so very good news for the 2 new channels their adding December 1. Probably a brand new encoder to shove those new subchannels on to. Wonder if they'll bit-starve the "Happy" channel? (That's the All-Angley, All the time channel save for the required E/I content.) I could see them dump the main channel down to 720p without too much effect. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-217441 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 2415 Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 2 hours ago, EdCTA said: Industry word is that Cleveland's WBNX is upgrading bandwidth, so very good news for the 2 new channels their adding December 1. What are those two new channels? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-217446 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvcg66b3r 100 Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 4 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said: What are those two new channels? Start TV and Decades Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-217448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobC 44 Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 11 minutes ago, mvcg66b3r said: Start TV and Decades We thought it was Justice Network and Decades Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-217449 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLETVFan 367 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 4 hours ago, JacobC said: We thought it was Justice Network and Decades Isn't Justice Network strictly a Tegna channel? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-217469 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 2415 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 24 minutes ago, CLETVFan said: Isn't Justice Network strictly a Tegna channel? Nope. WLTV 23.2 Miami carries it and that's a Univision O&O. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-217475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JacobC 44 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 22 minutes ago, TheRolyPoly said: Nope. WLTV 23.2 Miami carries it and that's a Univision O&O. Yeah I had the Justice Network and my provider Xfinity quietly pulled it for unknown reasons Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-217476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathannah 2429 Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 Bump time...no article out at all about the change, but WUAB is no longer a member of MyNetworkTV as of last week, as Gray took one look at the late night schedule upon the Raycom deal close and decided to put the affiliation agreement on full burn-off status. MyNet's schedule now airs on WOIO's MeTV subchannel in late night (pre-empting Alfred Hitchcock and Mannix). It also looks like Frangela got the Downgrade of Doom to 2:30am to WUAB among a bunch of sitcoms and infomercials, with Sunny Side Up getting an extension to the full hour. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-221454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3951 Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 You have to wonder when Fox is going to finally pull the plug on this "program service" Gray has run MyNetworkTV as scheduled and used MeTV to fill programming on many sub-channels of theirs.... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-221502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmaxhanson 650 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 43 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said: You have to wonder when Fox is going to finally pull the plug on this "program service" Gray has run MyNetworkTV as scheduled and used MeTV to fill programming on many sub-channels of theirs.... And Gray was one of the original backers of MyNetworkTV back when it started in 2006. The few remaining ones they have with a full independent program schedule are basically automated zombie stations, with little or no promotion through the main channels. Oh, and some of Grays MeTV/MNTV stations still carry severe weather reports from their mother stations and high school sports events, basically a vestage of their times as full stations. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-221507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3951 Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 Many of these MeTV/MNTV stations were started in smaller markets where there were not enough stations (in the analog era) to each have their own network. A few started VERY late in the UPN era (as .2s), while a lot of them began in 2006 when WB and UPN merged into the CW, and MyNetworkTV got the rest.... Stations like "My 7" WJHG have had a fully independent schedule of syndication that no other station would be able to carry in a market like Panama City. MeTV ended up on Hoak/Nexstar's WMBB as a full affiliate without having to shave off time for another network. Funny how Cleveland was one of the last major markets to separate UPN and WB onto separate stations, and now dumping MNTV to the curb once and for all..... Maybe if WJW goes back to a Fox O&O, they'll run it overnight? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-221515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.L. Hughes 890 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 9 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said: Many of these MeTV/MNTV stations were started in smaller markets where there were not enough stations (in the analog era) to each have their own network. A few started VERY late in the UPN era (as .2s), while a lot of them began in 2006 when WB and UPN merged into the CW, and MyNetworkTV got the rest.... Stations like "My 7" WJHG have had a fully independent schedule of syndication that no other station would be able to carry in a market like Panama City. MeTV ended up on Hoak/Nexstar's WMBB as a full affiliate without having to shave off time for another network. Funny how Cleveland was one of the last major markets to separate UPN and WB onto separate stations, and now dumping MNTV to the curb once and for all..... Maybe if WJW goes back to a Fox O&O, they'll run it overnight? Doubtful, Fox hasn't even tried to move the MyNetworkTV rights in San Francisco to KICU in the time since it acquired that station in 2014. Besides, Fox doesn't run any hybrid Fox/MyNetworkTV O&Os anyway, since nearly all of the markets where it owns a station have a separate affiliate or O&O of the service. It would make more sense for WBNX to take a stab at the affiliation. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-221523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3951 Posted February 5, 2019 Author Share Posted February 5, 2019 I wonder if MyNetworkTV has followed the leads of the other networks and gone to a reverse compensation model.... Or if they're old school and stations are PAID to air their programming.... Given the state of the "network", it seems like a barter branding package.....you get a free prime time lineup if you rebrand your station to our image..... Anyone who knows how they work, feel free to chime in.... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-221526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frog 429 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 5 hours ago, tyrannical bastard said: I wonder if MyNetworkTV has followed the leads of the other networks and gone to a reverse compensation model.... Or if they're old school and stations are PAID to air their programming.... Given the state of the "network", it seems like a barter branding package.....you get a free prime time lineup if you rebrand your station to our image..... Anyone who knows how they work, feel free to chime in.... At launch, MyNet offered an inventory split that was favorable to affiliates and did not ask for reverse comp. I believe it was nine minutes per hour for the station, Fox sold the other five (This led to Sinclair aligning with MyNet during the arms race of summer 2006...CW offered only three minutes in prime time plus reverse comp). I believe now with their programming service model, they offer half the inventory to the studio of whatever show they're airing and the other half to the station. They allegedly don't pay for the shows... it's all barter. There's another interesting question... MyNet itself is structured as a joint venture between 20th TV and FTS. 20th is going to Disney. What does that mean for MyNet? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-221536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3951 Posted February 8, 2019 Author Share Posted February 8, 2019 On 2/5/2019 at 3:20 PM, CRThell said: At launch, MyNet offered an inventory split that was favorable to affiliates and did not ask for reverse comp. I believe it was nine minutes per hour for the station, Fox sold the other five (This led to Sinclair aligning with MyNet during the arms race of summer 2006...CW offered only three minutes in prime time plus reverse comp). I believe now with their programming service model, they offer half the inventory to the studio of whatever show they're airing and the other half to the station. They allegedly don't pay for the shows... it's all barter. There's another interesting question... MyNet itself is structured as a joint venture between 20th TV and FTS. 20th is going to Disney. What does that mean for MyNet? Well, the CW is a joint venture between Warner Bros. and CBS....so Disney could keep this charade on the air a little longer with "New Fox". I'm amazed this has lasted beyond 2016. With the spectrum auction come and gone, and that both networks have outlasted UPN & WB, why is MyNetworkTV still around?!?!?!? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-221657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Buck 35 Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 16 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said: With the spectrum auction come and gone, and that both networks have outlasted UPN & WB, why is MyNetworkTV still around?!?!?!? Because for the stations, it's 2 hours of that they don't have to program themselves, and enough stations have signed up to make it viable. What else are the stations going to show in primetime? The days of The 8:00 Movie are long gone... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-221658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 2415 Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 I don't mean to put any speculation on here but... If WBNX was to be sold, which of the two would be a nice fit for a duopoly for WBNX to fit in with? WKYC or WEWS? Only those two because WJW already airs a lot of news on its main channel and will not likely move it and WOIO already has a sister in WUAB. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/16532-wuab-taking-cw-away-from-wbnx/page/6/#findComment-221669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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