Rusty Muck 4390 Posted February 26, 2023 Posted February 26, 2023 41 minutes ago, TheRob said: Looks like Greg Norman thought “Fool Us” was the CW’s slogan and not a show that actually airs on the CW. 2 4
tyrannical bastard 4019 Posted February 27, 2023 Posted February 27, 2023 I'll bet you 50 bucks the next sports push Nexstar makes for the CW is gambling-related!
ABC 7 Denver 1729 Posted February 27, 2023 Posted February 27, 2023 57 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said: I'll bet you 50 bucks the next sports push Nexstar makes for the CW is gambling-related! DraftKings on The CW.
nathannah 2493 Posted February 27, 2023 Posted February 27, 2023 I expected low numbers, but not to the extent that an Ole Miss/Mississippi State Raycom game in Montana would get. There are Gravitas/Pureflix weekend movie packages that have better ratings, yeesh! I tuned in for a few moments out of curiosity, and the presentation remains confusing (golf teams, but someone wins? And a crowded NASCAR-esque scoreboard) and it felt like something that was created to fill time on Golf Channel. 1
Rusty Muck 4390 Posted February 27, 2023 Posted February 27, 2023 1 hour ago, tyrannical bastard said: I'll bet you 50 bucks the next sports push Nexstar makes for the CW is gambling-related! Poker After Dark reruns from 2008 should be available on the DFS Program Exchange
David Salter JR 66 Posted February 27, 2023 Posted February 27, 2023 Nexstar should have gotten a bigger property if they were serious about making The CW a player for sports rights. 2
The Frog 434 Posted February 28, 2023 Posted February 28, 2023 CW Acquisition Has Already Paid For Itself, Nexstar CEO Perry Sook Says Sports beyond LIV are also in the crosshairs of Nexstar, Sook said. Without offering specifics, he said the company is evaluating “sports opportunities that could bleed into primetime.” 1 1
NowBergen 692 Posted February 28, 2023 Posted February 28, 2023 5 hours ago, The Frog said: CW Acquisition Has Already Paid For Itself, Nexstar CEO Perry Sook Says Sports beyond LIV are also in the crosshairs of Nexstar, Sook said. Without offering specifics, he said the company is evaluating “sports opportunities that could bleed into primetime.” I read they got an average of 300K viewers for the entire golf broadcast. I'm shocked that is measurable. I hope Nexstar got their money to carry the event up front. 2
The Frog 434 Posted February 28, 2023 Posted February 28, 2023 8 minutes ago, NowBergen said: I hope Nexstar got their money to carry the event up front. Sook said advertising on LIV Golf was selling “very well” and that Nexstar stations were generating three times the revenue from LIV Golf than it was getting from other network programming. Sounds like they're happy with it.
CircleWXYZ 181 Posted March 2, 2023 Posted March 2, 2023 Would not be surprised if CBS stopped it’s affiliation with all the CW stations, and those respective stations all became independent. Might be better if stations like WKBD all returned to independent status. 1
nycnewsjunkie 1443 Posted March 2, 2023 Posted March 2, 2023 On 2/28/2023 at 5:44 PM, The Frog said: Sook said advertising on LIV Golf was selling “very well” and that Nexstar stations were generating three times the revenue from LIV Golf than it was getting from other network programming. Sounds like they're happy with it. Probably because they got paid to air live sports and didn’t have to pay production costs. We might see bad ratings and a harmful association w/ Saudi Arabia, but Nexstar sees an opportunity to run low cost programming on a low rated network and make a quick profit. It worked. For better or worse, this kind of thinking is perfectly in line with how Nexstar runs the rest of its media operations, including NewsNation. 3 1
T.L. Hughes 901 Posted March 3, 2023 Posted March 3, 2023 (edited) The CW claims the network’s first LIV tournament broadcast averaged more than 3.2 million viewers across linear and digital during the period from February 24-26. (Note that the data cited used info from iSpotTV and internal results by both The CW and LIV.) Edited March 3, 2023 by T.L. Hughes 3 1
nathannah 2493 Posted March 3, 2023 Posted March 3, 2023 2 hours ago, T.L. Hughes said: The CW claims the network’s first LIV tournament broadcast averaged more than 3.2 million viewers across linear and digital during the period from February 24-26. (Note that the data cited used info from iSpotTV and internal results by both The CW and LIV.) I do love when a company cites 'the numbers are up some certain percent from the programming that previously aired there'...and the comparison is literal infomercials, 'E/I' programming, outdoors shows that take 28 minutes to shoot a deer or catch and release a fish, and the 854 sports profile shows which have seemed to suddenly become endemic on weekend CW/MNTV schedules. There is nobody under 60 without a streaming service watching those stations on weekend afternoons. 2 9
The Frog 434 Posted March 13, 2023 Posted March 13, 2023 On 2/24/2023 at 2:02 AM, compubit said: Now if they would add them to YouTube TV… J You’ve got your wish. 3
T.L. Hughes 901 Posted March 17, 2023 Posted March 17, 2023 (edited) The network has ordered a third season of FBoy Island, in a deal with the show’s distributor, STX, which had been shopping around the reality dating show after HBO Max canceled it in December (as part of CW minority owner Warner Bros. Discovery’s cuts to the service’s reality slate). The deal to pick up the series also includes the greenlight of a spinoff, FGirl Island. Edited March 17, 2023 by T.L. Hughes
Adam MadMan 285 Posted March 17, 2023 Posted March 17, 2023 51 minutes ago, T.L. Hughes said: The network has ordered a third season of FBoy Island, in a deal with the show’s distributor, STX, which had been shopping around the reality dating show after HBO Max canceled it in December (as part of CW minority owner Warner Bros. Discovery’s cuts to the service’s reality slate). The deal to pick up the series also includes the greenlight of a spinoff, FGirl Island. Didn't they say they were trying to get older audiences? Because somehow I doubt a show like that would appeal to the NCIS crowd. Then again, it's probably cheap programming, especially as a hand-me-down from David Zazlav's hatchet.
mrsunshine 17 Posted March 18, 2023 Posted March 18, 2023 Yeah...I really don't think Nexstar ever actually had a plan for the CW. All these movements all just kind of seem like "we bought it, now what?" type of stuff. Don't be surprised to see "wild" changes in demos (or as wild as the viewership the CW receives) every night starting this Fall, if they're really trying to do the whole older-skewing thing, but also showing stuff like these F___ Islands. I will say, though, that we might have misunderstood them when they said older-skewing - they could have meant older-skewing compared to the old CW demo targets, the 18-34s. Then again compared to that basically everything in broadcast nowadays skews dead. Case in point, the recent article posted by Variety/THR/Deadline (I forgot which one of them exactly) that said that in Hulu Abbott skews like three times younger than in broadcast.
Megatron81 278 Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 I'll watch FBoy to see if it is good or not glad that The CW is bringing back some dating shows. I haven't watch FBoy as I don't have HBO Max I wonder if The CW will air season 1 & 2 before season 3 debuts?
tyrannical bastard 4019 Posted March 29, 2023 Posted March 29, 2023 (edited) Looks like Nexstar's CW stations are now live on YouTube TV. This should include the MyNetwork stations and WGN. Time to "move" to Chicago! Or Marquette, MI to see what WJMN is up to.... EDIT:. Only the CW stations are available so far.... Edited March 29, 2023 by tyrannical bastard Update
MD TV 277 Posted March 29, 2023 Posted March 29, 2023 46 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said: Looks like Nexstar's CW stations are now live on YouTube TV. This should include the MyNetwork stations and WGN. Time to "move" to Chicago! Or Marquette, MI to see what WJMN is up to.... EDIT:. Only the CW stations are available so far.... Yeah, in DC WDCW is available but not WDVM (yet).
Recovering Producer 221 Posted March 30, 2023 Posted March 30, 2023 23 hours ago, MD TV said: Yeah, in DC WDCW is available but not WDVM (yet). Not sure how YTTV picks up stations, but hopefully they won’t use the borderline unwatchable super low resolution SD WDVM feed on WDCW’s bandwidth onto their service. Another layer of compression on that would be… not good. (And to be fair, the news product is also borderline unwatchable!) 1
compubit 674 Posted March 31, 2023 Posted March 31, 2023 They’ll probably get a direct feed from Nexstar… yes, the WDVM signal in Arlington over the air is crap (and I refuse to pay Comcast’s extortion fees just to get WDVM - I can get the rest, including WJLA 24/7 OTA, plus Baltimore stations to boot.). As for the content, they’re a small market station trying to fit into the big city as a major player. I enjoyed WHAG better when they were focused on “not DC” - turning into DC News Now doesn’t make it interesting to me - I’ll stick with Channel 4… (though with the recent wave of retirements - but there are still plenty of familiar faces) Jim
tyrannical bastard 4019 Posted April 5, 2023 Posted April 5, 2023 (edited) There's still a couple of straggler CW stations that have yet to have been added to YTTV. These are the .2s on stations like WCBD, WNCT, WJTV/WHLT, etc.... Edited April 5, 2023 by tyrannical bastard
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