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Eight CBS-owned CW affiliates going independent
For viewers in Southern Ontario, this includes WKBD Detroit, which is carried on cable in most of Southwestern Ontario west of London and is broadcast OTA as well.
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Looks like Nexstar-owned WNLO in Buffalo is safe, but with the CW going almost all cheap reality next season (whenever next season is, thanks to the writers' strike) there won't be all that much to watch on there anyway. My suspicion is that the network may be on its last legs.
Then again, MyTV is still around in a ton of markets (Channel 49 in Buffalo) and it's nothing but reruns of shows I never want to watch again, so who knows?
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Two years ago the MyNetwork moved from WMYD 20 over to WADL 38. I could see WPXD (31) dropping Ion to carry The CW. Scripps owns both WMYD-TV 20 and The Ion Network, so that's where Ion would end up.
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As it turned out, in Detroit The CW signed an affiliation agreement with WADL, and they’ve now branded as CW38. I’m not aware of WADL being carried on cable on the Canadian side of the border, but it should be available OTA in some areas. WKBD is now branded as Detroit 50.
Elsewhere, in Seattle the CW moved off KSTW which is now branded as Seattle 11. In that case, the CW got relegated to a .2 subchannel, on Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate KOMO.
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I have no idea what Nexstar is doing with The CW, but if it was a car, it looks like they plan to push it over a cliff and let it crash on the rocks below. They've just gotten hold of it and already it's on the road to being a disaster.