Nexstar buying The CW?

[ABC 7 Denver 1741]

2 hours ago, TheSpeedKing said:

Nexstar produces whatever is on NewsNation as well as The Hill's morning show.

 

And they are going to use The CW as a vehicle for that. Be prepared for The CW to have network newscasts.

[TheSpeedKing 270]

19 minutes ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

And they are going to use The CW as a vehicle for that. Be prepared for The CW to have network newscasts.

IMO, The Hill would be a good branding for CW network newscasts and is a stronger brand compared to NewsNation.

[ABC 7 Denver 1741]

57 minutes ago, TheSpeedKing said:

IMO, The Hill would be a good branding for CW network newscasts and is a stronger brand compared to NewsNation.

 

Not Nexstar's MO.

[newsteam13 400]

 

7 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

And they are going to use The CW as a vehicle for that. Be prepared for The CW to have network newscasts.

 

NewsNation on The CW!!

Just like ESPN on ABC

[CLETVFan 369]

Here's a thought - Could The CW end up moving from broadcast to cable and/or streaming?

[ABC 7 Denver 1741]

2 hours ago, CLETVFan said:

Here's a thought - Could The CW end up moving from broadcast to cable and/or streaming?

 

Ha! No. That Nexstar owns the most CW affiliates. Doing that to themselves would be silly.

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On 1/8/2022 at 12:15 AM, newsteam13 said:

Moreover, Nexstar has a news network called NewsNation. Will the CW have itself a news division by way of NewsNation?

 

20 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

Be prepared for The CW to have network newscasts.

 

FOX has a news division that's been around since 1996, and they still don't have regular newscasts on its stations (besides Fox News Sunday). If Nexstar does buy The CW, I wouldn't expect them to have any regular news shows either, even with NewsNation as their sister division.

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49 minutes ago, kfc513 said:

 

 

FOX has a news division that's been around since 1996, and they still don't have regular newscasts on its stations (besides Fox News Sunday). If Nexstar does buy The CW, I wouldn't expect them to have any regular news shows either, even with NewsNation as their sister division.

Perhaps not regularly, but I can see them occasionally covering certain national events like elections and presidential addresses, like Fox does.

[Superdude 108]

7 hours ago, kfc513 said:

 

 

FOX has a news division that's been around since 1996, and they still don't have regular newscasts on its stations (besides Fox News Sunday). If Nexstar does buy The CW, I wouldn't expect them to have any regular news shows either, even with NewsNation as their sister division.

Maybe they'd want to be different.

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10 hours ago, Adam MadMan said:

Perhaps not regularly, but I can see them occasionally covering certain national events like elections and presidential addresses, like Fox does.

If most of these stations and the CW+'ers are sister stations of a Big Four station, the worst thing they could do is dilution of something you can already see on multiple other networks to the point of tossing the remote and choosing Netflix instead.

 

The WB, UPN and CW actually thrive(d) on all-hands-on-deck election nights where they're an option with fictional programming, especially for someone who either doesn't care about elections completely, there's no real races of notice in their state or locality, or would rather wait to get the numbers nicely-counted a day later than in a horserace up-to-the-minute mode with Squash-o-Vision ruining their show.

[CLETVFan 369]

Hollywood Reporter has an interesting article on The CW and streaming.

[Rusty Muck 4426]

On 1/10/2022 at 12:11 PM, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

And they are going to use The CW as a vehicle for that. Be prepared for The CW to have network newscasts.

 

And anger all the affiliates owned by Sinclair, Gray, Scripps and Hearst? Yeah good luck decimating the affiliate base trying to push a proprietary news service that practically no one is watching.

[ABC 7 Denver 1741]

7 hours ago, Myron Falwell said:

 

And anger all the affiliates owned by Sinclair, Gray, Scripps and Hearst? Yeah good luck decimating the affiliate base trying to push a proprietary news service that practically no one is watching.

 

Nexstar is more than happy.

[GoldenShine9 1515]

16 hours ago, Myron Falwell said:

 

And anger all the affiliates owned by Sinclair, Gray, Scripps and Hearst? Yeah good luck decimating the affiliate base trying to push a proprietary news service that practically no one is watching.

 

They can retaliate by pulling affiliations, but Nexstar will gladly take them on instead.

[Rusty Muck 4426]

8 hours ago, ABC 7 Denver said:

 

Nexstar is more than happy.

If the CW Plus (which I would assume is also being sold) is used as a fulcrum for replacement affiliations on .2s, then it's their call. But forcing NewsNation onto the CW creates more problems than it solves.

1 minute ago, GoldenShine9 said:

 

They can retaliate by pulling affiliations, but Nexstar will gladly take them on instead.

Is it enough? Remember that Nexstar isn't in every market.

[Nelson R. 569]

3 minutes ago, GoldenShine9 said:

 

They can retaliate by pulling affiliations, but Nexstar will gladly take them on instead.

 

 

16 hours ago, Myron Falwell said:

 

And anger all the affiliates owned by Sinclair, Gray, Scripps and Hearst? Yeah good luck decimating the affiliate base trying to push a proprietary news service that practically no one is watching.

What about in markets like Columbia, SC where there’s no Nexstar station to take the CW affiliation that WIS 10.2 could theoretically dump in your scenario?

[GoldenShine9 1515]

2 minutes ago, Nelson R. said:

 

 

What about in markets like Columbia, SC where there’s no Nexstar station to take the CW affiliation that WIS 10.2 could theoretically dump in your scenario?

 

They could either pipe it in via cable or find a somewhat friendly owner to help them out.

[TheSpeedKing 270]

5 minutes ago, Nelson R. said:

 

 

What about in markets like Columbia, SC where there’s no Nexstar station to take the CW affiliation that WIS 10.2 could theoretically dump in your scenario?

 

3 minutes ago, GoldenShine9 said:

 

They could either pipe it in via cable or find a somewhat friendly owner to help them out.

Or they could buy an existing LP and build an O&O from scratch.

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1 minute ago, TheSpeedKing said:

 

Or they could buy an existing LP and build an O&O from scratch.

Maybe Nexstar is on a Mission to bring their operating practices to markets where they don't own a station, and can't because they're at the cap.

[TheSpeedKing 270]

1 minute ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Maybe Nexstar is on a Mission to bring their operating practices to markets where they don't own a station, and can't because they're at the cap.

Not happening. They’re done gobbling up full power stations, and they even mentioned it. Should a Democratic Party-led FCC eliminate the UHF discount again, the only protection Nexstar has against this is easy divestitures like WDTN. If they simply move their stations to Mission, that’s cause for an investigation.

[GoldenShine9 1515]

1 hour ago, TheSpeedKing said:

Not happening. They’re done gobbling up full power stations, and they even mentioned it. Should a Democratic Party-led FCC eliminate the UHF discount again, the only protection Nexstar has against this is easy divestitures like WDTN. If they simply move their stations to Mission, that’s cause for an investigation.

 

But if the cap is eliminated altogether?

[Rusty Muck 4426]

1 hour ago, GoldenShine9 said:

But if the cap is eliminated altogether?

Nope. The cap will never be eliminated, or will it be expanded. Odds are high that the UHF Discount is a goner if but to remove one of the few things Pai actually enacted (which itself was a political response to Tom Wheeler scrubbing it the first time).

 

Heck, a case could be made that Sinclair's mishandling of their attempted purchase of Tribune did in Pai's plans for further dereg, and if HE couldn't get it done...

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I don't see The CW putting a national newscast or a public affairs show either just my opinion.

[The Frog 435]

2 hours ago, Megatron81 said:

I don't see The CW putting a national newscast or a public affairs show either just my opinion.

 

The linked THR article from above says NewsNation execs are "salivating" at the chance of putting news on The CW, so get used to the idea of it bud. 

[Nelson R. 569]

5 hours ago, The Frog said:

 

The linked THR article from above says NewsNation execs are "salivating" at the chance of putting news on The CW, so get used to the idea of it bud. 

Sounds like it might be at 10pm Eastern. Interesting. That’s when a lot of stations run newscasts produced by CBS, NBC and ABC stations. Maybe those stations would delay them to 10:30 or 11pm.