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WADL lands My Network TV

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WADL lands My Network TV

Post by mtburb » Fri Jul 09, 2021 6:55 pm

https://www.nexttv.com/news/wadl-gets-d ... ffiliation

I totally did not see this coming. This might be the perfect opportunity for Scripps to flip WMYD to Newsy or become an independent station...and even restore the WXON calls since the Flint LP that had those calls has gone off the air.


My furthest DTV tropo: KDKA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 202 miles for three days in January 2017 and a night in September 2017 with only an Antennas Direct C2V!

Current setup: Antennas Direct C2Max (2018-present)

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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by mvcg66b3r » Fri Jul 09, 2021 7:47 pm

WADL still has that crappy signal, so MNT will lose some viewers in the western and southern fringes of the Detroit DMA.
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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by MWmetalhead » Fri Jul 09, 2021 9:09 pm

MyNetwork TV is garbage. I'm sure WMYD is perfectly fine with it going away.

Isn't WMYD's ATSC 2.0 signal using WXYZ's RF channel in any event?

It is possible Bounce or even ION will move to 20.1. Either would likely earn better ratings than MyNet.

Or, as suggested above, TV20 will stay truly Independent. They can easily backfill the two hours of programming with same day reruns of daytime syndie programming carried by WXYZ or extra newscasts.



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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by Realist » Fri Jul 09, 2021 10:51 pm

MWmetalhead wrote:
Fri Jul 09, 2021 9:09 pm
MyNetwork TV is garbage. I'm sure WMYD is perfectly fine with it going away.

Isn't WMYD's ATSC 2.0 signal using WXYZ's RF channel in any event?

It is possible Bounce or even ION will move to 20.1. Either would likely earn better ratings than MyNet.

Or, as suggested above, TV20 will stay truly Independent. They can easily backfill the two hours of programming with same day reruns of daytime syndie programming carried by WXYZ or extra newscasts.
+1

WNEM in Saginaw had MyNetwork programming for years. Literally nothing decent or interesting to watch. Lots of reruns of their main channels syndicated shows



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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by Inundated » Sat Jul 10, 2021 12:18 am

Here in the Cleveland market, the MyNetwork TV affiliate snatched the CW affiliation from TV 55, and then-renamed "CW 43" started running My from 11 PM to 1 AM.

It gets better.

My now runs not on "CW 43" or big brother CBS affiliate WOIO/19. It runs on 19.2 (the market's MeTV affiliate) from 1-3 AM (!) after Perry Mason and The Twilight Zone.



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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by innate-in-you » Mon Jul 12, 2021 2:29 pm

MWmetalhead wrote:
Fri Jul 09, 2021 9:09 pm
MyNetwork TV is garbage. I'm sure WMYD is perfectly fine with it going away.

Isn't WMYD's ATSC 2.0 signal using WXYZ's RF channel in any event?

It is possible Bounce or even ION will move to 20.1. Either would likely earn better ratings than MyNet.

Or, as suggested above, TV20 will stay truly Independent. They can easily backfill the two hours of programming with same day reruns of daytime syndie programming carried by WXYZ or extra newscasts.
I doubt that WADL will be using ATSC 2.0.

The whole industry supposedly decided to pass ATSC 2.0 when the planning for it got slow, and they decided to just switch from ATSC 1.0 to ATSC 3.0.



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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by Gerald1981! » Wed Aug 04, 2021 11:56 am

WADL's switch to MyNetworkTV takes effect on Monday, September 20th, folks! Be there!



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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by SixPlusOne » Wed Aug 04, 2021 12:09 pm

mvcg66b3r wrote:
Fri Jul 09, 2021 7:47 pm
WADL still has that crappy signal.........
Wrong, you just have to realize that they're way over on the east side.



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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by Gerald1981! » Wed Aug 04, 2021 12:22 pm

I know. But I can't pick up WADL because they're way on the east side. I live on the west side.



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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by km1125 » Wed Aug 04, 2021 2:50 pm

Gerald1981! wrote:
Wed Aug 04, 2021 12:22 pm
I know. But I can't pick up WADL because they're way on the east side. I live on the west side.
The west side of the state? I'm on the west side of the metro area and I usually don't have any problem picking them up



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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by MWmetalhead » Wed Aug 04, 2021 3:38 pm

I'm about 18 miles west of their TX site and get decent reception with a cheap indoor antenna.

It actually comes in more easily (some of the time) than WKBD, whose TX site is much closer to me.



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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by Gerald1981! » Fri Aug 06, 2021 3:51 pm

km1125 wrote:
Wed Aug 04, 2021 2:50 pm
Gerald1981! wrote:
Wed Aug 04, 2021 12:22 pm
I know. But I can't pick up WADL because they're way on the east side. I live on the west side.
The west side of the state? I'm on the west side of the metro area and I usually don't have any problem picking them up
No. I live on the west side of Detroit.



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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by mtburb » Fri Sep 10, 2021 11:03 am

TV Passport has posted schedules for the week of 9/20 and...WMYD and WADL are both sharing MNTV??


My furthest DTV tropo: KDKA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 202 miles for three days in January 2017 and a night in September 2017 with only an Antennas Direct C2V!

Current setup: Antennas Direct C2Max (2018-present)

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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by mtburb » Mon Sep 13, 2021 2:18 pm

mtburb wrote:
Fri Sep 10, 2021 11:03 am
TV Passport has posted schedules for the week of 9/20 and...WMYD and WADL are both sharing MNTV??
Not the case according to Zap2It. WMYD will be airing Chicago Fire followed by Law & Order SVU in primetime to replace MNTV.


My furthest DTV tropo: KDKA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 202 miles for three days in January 2017 and a night in September 2017 with only an Antennas Direct C2V!

Current setup: Antennas Direct C2Max (2018-present)

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Re: WADL lands My Network TV

Post by lush.rimbaugh » Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:51 am

Any word on whether WYMD will be swapping calls? As mtburb says, I'd personally like to see them revert to WXON.



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