The End Of CW in Pittsburgh

[W3WN]

CBS/Paramount has announced that it’s eight Owned And Operated Stations currently affiliated with The CW Network, including WPCW in Pittsburgh, will be dropping their network affiliation this Fall and become independents.

The CW was formerly a joint venture of Paramount (remember UPN?) and Warner Brothers (the WB), But they sold controlling interest in the network to Nexstar recently.

Could this be the beginning of the end of the CW?

[NQ6U]

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[n6hcm]

hrm. doesn't Sinclair own many CW affiliates? they own the local here...

[W3WN]

hrm. doesn't Sinclair own many CW affiliates? they own the local here...
Probably, but they don’t own the network.

The local Sinclair station (53) is affiliated with Fox (bleh).

[KG4CGC]

Local Sinclair here is an ABC affiliate, WLOS.

[WZ7U]

Same for the Portland OR market, KATU channel 2 ABC

[KG4CGC]

When we first got a CW channel, aka, The CW, it was before the multiple digital offerings and was directed a specific set of demographics.