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It’s CW Decision Time for WKCF, WRDQ

February 15th, 2006

TVWeek reports that more than 200 TV station owners and executives received their first communications from the new CW Network on Tuesday — starting the process for affiliate selection.

In Orlando, that affiliation choice comes down to two stations:

WKCF-Channel 18, the current WB affiliate and one of the strongest WB stations in the nation.
WRDQ-Channel 27, the independent station owned by Cox and run by the stongest station in the market, WFTV.

Selection of O-Town’s CW station could come quickly, according to the letters sent out. "Affiliation materials will be sent out this week. At the same time, we will be contacting each company involved in the first wave of affiliation discussions," the letter said. "We will do what is necessary to move quickly to evaluate each market, as well as to provide each television station that wishes to participate in our evaluation process an opportunity to do so."

As they say in TV, stay tuned …

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The Next Move? It Belongs to WRDQ

February 3rd, 2006

In a move that will better position the station for the future, WRDQ is moving.

Not from Orlando or from sister-station WFTV’s studios. It’s moving on Bright House Networks cable. The station has been airing on channel 21 on the cable lineup since not long after it went on the air in 2001. But starting in mid-March, it’s movin’ on down the dial to channel 10 — a much nicer neighborhood populated by many of the other local stations.

The station has been upgrading its programming, adding South Park, 24, My Wife and Kids and the Tom Joyner Show to staples that include Oprah reruns and the WFTV-produced Action News at 10 This fall, the station will add Monday-Friday reruns of Scrubs, Acording to Jim and That 70s Show.

And there the possibility of affiliation with the new CW Network. The move to a more favorable cable channel position could only help those prospects.

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27 Wants to Join CW; 65 Drops UPN

January 28th, 2006

An update on the WB-UPN-CW situation in O-Town:

Heard from a WRDQ insider that the now-independent station plans to actively pursue affiliation with the new CW Network. So, it’s not a slam dunk that CW programming will end up on WKCF-WB 18. I would think that with its Orlando duopoly with WFTV-Channel 9 and its strong Cox ownership, Channel 27 could have an edge over Emmis-owned WKCF in landing the new network. Plus, isn’t WKCF still up for sale?

And, as predicted, Fox-owned WRBW dropped the UPN logo out of its on-air graphics on Friday (see above). The former "UPN 65" now refers to itself as "WRBW 65." This follows the lead of other Fox-owned UPN affiliates that are now distancing themselves from the network that is leaving them high and dry. Plus, Broadcasting and Cable reported that Fox-owned UPN stations are scrapping February sweeps radio buys that had been intended to promote UPN programming. The stations also are not promoting network shows during their programming.

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What about CW27 in O-Town?

January 24th, 2006

I must admit I never thought of this until I saw someone post about in on the RogerSimmons.com TV Talk Forum: What about WRDQ-Channel 27 becoming the new CW affiliate in Orlando?

I just assumed that the two former WB and UPN affiliates would be the ones to negotiate, but I must admit that if Cox wanted to make a bid for the new network’s business, it could make things interesting with its independent station.