The Frog 429 Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 WMYD's CW affiliation is officially announced. That leaves the question of what happens with Mission's pending acquisition of WADL. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291305 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleWXYZ 181 Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 12 minutes ago, The Frog said: WMYD's CW affiliation is officially announced. That leaves the question of what happens with Mission's pending acquisition of WADL. Might not happen. FCC is watching this one closely. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam MadMan 285 Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 (edited) 21 minutes ago, The Frog said: That leaves the question of what happens with Mission's pending acquisition of WADL. I've already got the answer. NGL, I Kevin kinda blew it here. I get that the FCC wasn't eager to greenlight the sale to Mission, but demanding more money from Nexstar in the age of reverse compensation cost WADL dearly. On the other hand, the fact that Scripps was willing to sacrifice what might have been eventual prime time space for the Tigers/Pistons/Red Wings if/when DSG goes belly-up suggests they can be talked into keeping The CW on at least some their stations. Edited November 6, 2023 by Adam MadMan 4 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleWXYZ 181 Posted November 6, 2023 Share Posted November 6, 2023 WMYD should’ve been chosen from day one. They are a much better option for CW. Also, never do business with Kevin Adell. The man is a pariah!! 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRolyPoly 2447 Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 6 hours ago, Adam MadMan said: I've already got the answer. NGL, I Kevin kinda blew it here. I get that the FCC wasn't eager to greenlight the sale to Mission, but demanding more money from Nexstar in the age of reverse compensation cost WADL dearly. On the other hand, the fact that Scripps was willing to sacrifice what might have been eventual prime time space for the Tigers/Pistons/Red Wings if/when DSG goes belly-up suggests they can be talked into keeping The CW on at least some their stations. Hahaha. I love that Spongebob moment but it sounds true for what's happening to WADL right now. 1 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291313 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathannah 2438 Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 The coffin is the station's ultimate fate as an Innovate/HC2 subfarm, though I think Adell could screw up even that deal. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frog 429 Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 Kevin Adell has sent a cease and desist letter to WMYD to stop the CW affiliation. Official article (paywalled). 4 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291333 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathannah 2438 Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 36 minutes ago, The Frog said: Kevin Adell has sent a cease and desist letter to WMYD to stop the CW affiliation. Official article (paywalled). Considering he broke the contract (which going by what he claims didn't exist in the first place) clearly he doesn't really have a case here; he might be confusing himself with the terms of the has-been networks he carried before; this is a station that proudly carried Newsmax for a couple years in primetime for some reason and couldn't bother for years to upgrade to HD while they carried WDIV pre-emptions, so his business acumen is really dreadful. 3 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291336 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasTVNews 1377 Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 1 hour ago, The Frog said: Kevin Adell has sent a cease and desist letter to WMYD to stop the CW affiliation. Official article (paywalled). Is Adell high on drugs or what?! First, he wants his station to carry the CW, then weeks later he decides not to carry the CW. What the hell is going on over at Adell Broadcasting and WADL 38? 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopInTheHouse 68 Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 12 minutes ago, TexasTVNews said: Is Adell high on drugs or what?! First, he wants his station to carry the CW, then weeks later he decides not to carry the CW. What the hell is going on over at Adell Broadcasting and WADL 38? It’s a weird stuff-a-palooza! In all seriousness, why is Kevin Adell doing all of this. Cease and desist? To a TV STATION? Kevin’s gotta be scripting all this. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3955 Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 If the FCC had real powers (and if Detroit was once like it was many decades ago before the automakers ruined it), they should have stripped Kevin Adell of his FCC license in favor of someone who could provide a better public service than he has. This would have been nice in the 90s when CBS was looking for a new home, and WGPR could have stayed true to it's original mission, instead of being sucked away by CBS to provide a network station for Detroit. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frog 429 Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 4 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291348 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColtFromGulfcoast 709 Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 4 hours ago, The Frog said: Oh for crying out loud!!!! 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291354 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoopInTheHouse 68 Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 “On October 29th, WADL temporarily stopped carrying The CW Network. Late last week, you agreed to carry The CW without compensation and with knowledge of the above-referenced agreement and business relationship with Mission.” Apparently Kevin’s forgotten how a CONTRACT works. 2 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVVTV12 141 Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 Someone has been nipping in the cooking sherry again. 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3955 Posted November 8, 2023 Share Posted November 8, 2023 2 hours ago, EVVTV12 said: Someone has been nipping in the cooking sherry again. Or in his case, the church wine from The WORD network... 5 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frog 429 Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 In today's earnings call, Nexstar teased that more CW affiliation changes will be announced in the coming weeks. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelson R. 569 Posted November 9, 2023 Share Posted November 9, 2023 12 minutes ago, The Frog said: In today's earnings call, Nexstar teased that more CW affiliation changes will be announced in the coming weeks. WCCB’s contract doesn’t end til 2025 so I don’t think Nexstar would announce it for WMYT so soon… Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291367 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVVTV12 141 Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 “Adell told B+C he did not have an affiliation agreement with The CW, but agreed to air the network as an “accommodation” as he awaited the FCC’s signoff on the sale.” Someone just needs to get this boy away now. If he is “accommodating” them, like he says, he has a contract with them. How is Scripps and WMYD breaking anything? The CW/Nexstar had to go to them, not the other way around. 4 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColtFromGulfcoast 709 Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 (edited) 19 hours ago, EVVTV12 said: “Adell told B+C he did not have an affiliation agreement with The CW, but agreed to air the network as an “accommodation” as he awaited the FCC’s signoff on the sale.” Someone just needs to get this boy away now. If he is “accommodating” them, like he says, he has a contract with them. How is Scripps and WMYD breaking anything? The CW/Nexstar had to go to them, not the other way around. THAT RIGHT THERE. So, let's just say this was all without an affiliation agreement. Well then, at any point, Nexstar themselves could have easily pulled the affiliation. But let's say that Nexstar and Adell had gotten into it after the CW began airing WWE and acquiring whatever other events and then Nexstar had pulled the affiliation and gave it to whoever. Adell would STILL be crying nonsense. This is the man that had a major network affiliation in 1994 all but handed to him on a gold (never mind silver) platter but managed to mess that up and sent them to a station no one knew existed and is just now relevant. Adell is what would have happened had Weigel been run by wackos and it's an insult to even mention Weigel in this post. Edited November 10, 2023 by ColtFromGulfcoast 1 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291441 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1537 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 1 hour ago, ColtFromGulfcoast said: THAT RIGHT THERE. So, let's just say this was all without an affiliation agreement. Well then, at any point, Nexstar themselves could have easily pulled the affiliation. But let's say that Nexstar and Adell had gotten into it after the CW began airing WWE and acquiring whatever other events and then Nexstar had pulled the affiliation and gave it to whoever. Adell would STILL be crying nonsense. This is the man that had a major network affiliation in 1994 all but handed to him on a gold (never mind silver) platter but managed to mess that up and sent them to a station no one knew existed and is just now relevant. Adell is what would have happened had Weigel been run by wackos and it's an insult to even mention Weigel in this post. So you're saying that he's so bad that people and companies we consider to be terrible owners would be better than him? 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathannah 2438 Posted November 11, 2023 Share Posted November 11, 2023 2 hours ago, mre29 said: So you're saying that he's so bad that people and companies we consider to be terrible owners would be better than him? HC2/Innovate would literally be a better owner of that station than him. Even the haunted spirit of Ernest Angley knows how to navigate an affiliation agreement (and even if he had no role when WBNX lost the CW, it's still a thriving station now). 1 Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Frog 429 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 KUNS will be the new CW affiliate in Seattle. Univision is being dropped. They declined being moved to a subchannel. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanErrorist 149 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 4 minutes ago, The Frog said: KUNS will be the new CW affiliate in Seattle. Univision is being dropped. They declined being moved to a subchannel. The source says Hispanic leaders in the area aren't pleased. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVLurker 198 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 1 hour ago, The Frog said: KUNS will be the new CW affiliate in Seattle. Univision is being dropped. They declined being moved to a subchannel. Are the owners of the company on crack? This is getting ridiculous now. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/19633-eight-cbs-stations-to-ditch-cw-and-go-independent-this-fall/page/13/#findComment-291516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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