Re: [TV orNotTV] Nexstar Sends CDub Scripted Execs Packing

2023-02-03 Thread Stan S
Is this just killing time until Nexstar turns all the CW O affiliates into an over-the-air NewsNation network? -Stan On Friday, February 3, 2023 at 2:46:38 PM UTC-5 Mark Jeffries wrote: I am assuming that in Chicago WGN will reconnect with the CW next fall--they dropped it back when they

Re: [TV orNotTV] Nexstar Sends CDub Scripted Execs Packing

2023-02-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
I am assuming that in Chicago WGN will reconnect with the CW next fall--they dropped it back when they still had the Cubs, Sox, Bulls and Black Hawks and now they don't have any of those teams--they're all on cable on NBC Sports Chicago, with the exception of the Cubs co-owning with Sinclair

Re: [TV orNotTV] Nexstar Sends CDub Scripted Execs Packing

2023-02-03 Thread Brad Beam
Yeah, I meant to qualify it as an ownership group the size of Nexstar. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 3, 2023, at 12:59, Jim Ellwanger wrote: > > Am I misunderstanding what you're asking? The majority owners of the other > networks have their O affiliated with the network. (That said, it's >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Nexstar Sends CDub Scripted Execs Packing

2023-02-03 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Am I misunderstanding what you're asking? The majority owners of the other networks have their O affiliated with the network. (That said, it's obviously a big jump from Disney/ABC owning 8 stations nationwide to Nexstar owning or controlling 197.) > On Feb 3, 2023, at 9:38 AM, Brad Beam

Re: [TV orNotTV] Nexstar Sends CDub Scripted Execs Packing

2023-02-03 Thread Brad Beam
Ed. note: Of course, not all CW affiliates are Nexstar-owned. Would the FCC anything say to a majority owner of a network (e.g., Nexstar) having all its O - well, one per market - affiliate with said network? Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 3, 2023, at 10:29, Mark Jeffries wrote: > > The

[TV orNotTV] Nexstar Sends CDub Scripted Execs Packing

2023-02-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
As further proof that the "Dare to Defy" era is over at the CW, along with the new head of DC Films saying that the Arrowverse of Greg Berlanti is kaput in his presentation of Phase 1 of the new DCCU and the net hiring an unscripted programming chief for the first time from NBC's cable division