WADL didnt show the CW ACC football game this past saturday

[billmich88888]

They had shown all the previous games this season, but at 2 pm on 10/28, rather than going into Clemson v NC St. it continued to show weird stuff like "Greatest F1 crashes" and other nonsense. Of course there was no one to call at 2 pm on a Saturday afternoon.

I did find and watch the game via "sketchy stream site" , and it did turn out to be a decent game.

When I called this morning the (curt) receptionist informed me that there was "a format change", which I found shocking, my follow up questions were met with mostly silence and a bad attitude....

Anyone else hear of this? I'm going to call national CW as well, but they are on west coast and aren't taking calls until 10 am PT

Thoughts?

[RayQix]

I am thinking that CW still has 1 foot in Southfield with TV 50 and another foot with WADL

Likely who you talk to was someone in Southfield lol


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[billmich88888]

nah, I called WADL direct, their number has always been 586-590-3838
it was answered , thank you for calling Detroit's CW38 (or something like that) - that's why 'format change seemed weird, probably more of a blow-off thing by a bad receptionist

and I did check out WKBD.... just in case there was a mix up and the game was there, but nope - they were doing their own thing.

[Robert Faygo]

Format change is a strange way to put it ... but kinda accurate.

Adell has dropped the CW affiliation on Ch. 38.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/enter ... 380700007/

[billmich88888]

thank you - i take it Detroit no longer has a CW affiliate -
also interesting that 910 am will be on 104.3 HD-2

[radiofan1974]

Format change is a strange way to put it ... but kinda accurate.

Adell has dropped the CW affiliation on Ch. 38.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/enter ... 380700007/

The quote “it’s all about the Benjamin’s”

[billmich88888]

https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/wadl-fires ... day/41373/

Kevin Adell just keeps strengthening his brand with actions like this from 2012 and quotes from today
What an entitled douche.....

[Graham Wellington]

Kevin Adell has a shrine to Donald Trump, no doubt about it.

[edj]

CW is going to end up on a subchannel. That would mean lower picture quality or kicking off other subchannels for bandwidth.

I'd like to see 20 or 31 pick it up but that's doubtful.

[Gerald1981!]

Or maybe a low-powered TV station will pick it up, which would be 3, 15, 18, 19, 23 or 28.

[Mega Hertz]

We have something weird over this way. WLAJ (ABC) and WLNS (CBS) do something of a time share. WLNS runs their news on WLAJ, and WLAJ 53.2 has some kind of alternate CW. Strange stuff.

[mtburb]

I just checked each of WDIV's subchannels and none of them are airing CW programming. I sense a nasty lawsuit coming out of this (and especially since Nexstar's WJMN abruptly yanked CBS off last year).

[RayQix]

Unfortunately the viewers will lose in all this piss-match.

Nbd…… not a fan of Adell and his antics.


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