We've had plenty of network affiliation switches over the years. Late 70s and early 80s saw big ABC-NBC switch in markets, like Atlanta, Charlotte, Indianapolis, San Diego, Twin Cities, and Jacksonville. Jacksonville switch was reversed several years later. Mid-to-late 80s, switches in Raleigh and Miami. I think Fresno saw a switch. Mid 90s was big switch, when former New World and Citicasters stations (Atlanta, Greensboro, Cleveland, Detroit, Tampa Bay, Birmingham, Memphis, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and Phoenix) defected to Fox, when Fox took NFC football conference away from CBS, and former Group W and Gaylord stations (Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Dallas-Fort Worth, Salt Lake City, and Seattle) defected to CBS. Seattle switch was reversed 2 years later. Switches also took place in Denver, Sacramento, Charleston (SC), Jacksonville, Mobile, and New Orleans. 2002 would see NBC affiliation switch in San Francisco, CBS affiliation switch in Jacksonville, and Fox affiliation switches in Twin Cities and Portland (OR). 2008 and 2013 saw Fox switches in San Diego and Charlotte, respectively. 2015 saw CBS switch in Indianapolis, and that could change amid pending Nexstar-Tribune merger. 2016 saw CBS-NBC switch in Raleigh. 2017 saw NBC switch in Boston... Not sure whether another switch could be on the way for the New England metropolis. 4 major markets (top 25) outside of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago to keep the same ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliations for 50+ years, and same Fox affiliation since 1986... Washington (DC), Houston, Orlando, and Pittsburgh.
Eric Kirk same in Las Vegas and Orlando, where the same four stations have kept their affiliations since Fox began operations in 1986. Meredith’s deal with CBS did not include either KVVU or its then sister station WOFL in Orlando.
As a side note, the Milwaukee station that switched to Fox, WITI, had been a CBS affiliate twice: once from 1959 until 1961 and then from 1977 to 1994. The second stint with CBS was owed to Storer Broadcasting (then-owner of WITI and WJW) being upset with ABC over that network's unwillingness to appear on a UHF station Storer owned in San Diego named KCST (now NBC O&O KNSD).
WEWS and WXYZ were planned to switch to CBS but in June 1994 a deal was made between ABC and Scripps where WMAR, WFTS and KNXV would become ABC stations in exchange for WEWS and WXYZ remaining ABC stations. This led to the July 1994 deal between Group W and CBS where WBZ, WJZ, and KYW would switch to CBS, joining KDKA and KPIX as existing stations who were already affiliated with CBS. The switch was delayed in Philadelphia because of scrutiny over the planned sale of WCAU by CBS. To alleviate this problem a side deal was announced in November 1994 where KCNC and KUTV would be traded from NBC to CBS in exchange for WCAU, and that would result in KMGH becoming an ABC affiliate and KUSA and KSL converting to NBC. This deal, which was accompanied by a channel swap between WCIX (later WFOR) and WTVJ, was completed in September 1995.
After the affiliation switch, WJW became the only station in Fox's portfolio to have a three-letter call sign. I believe that's a Sony BVP-360 at 1:54.
It amazes me how this confuses people. I understand that all of the network programming is basically swapped between the 2 stations and each station will change its identity to reflect its affiliation with the new network. That’s it! The station itself isn’t going anywhere
Cleveland would have another network switch in July of 2018 when The CW left WBNX channel 55 and moved to WUAB channel 43 leaving 55 as an independent station.
That switch recently confused me. I think somewhere around 2014 the television show "Who's line is it anyways?" was brought back. It replaced Drew Carry as host with Aiysha Tyler. I thought it ran from 2014-2018. I thought it had been cancelled. Then recently I found out it's still in production. New episodes are still coming out. And it's still on the CW. So I open up my tivo guide, and I don't see it. Then I'm scrolling through the channel list, and see that 43 is CW, which I never knew happened. I don't watch traditional TV anymore. So these things escaped me. I still think of 43 as UPN, and 55 as the WB. I don't know when those changes happened, but I know it was decades ago.
Yes and that’s the god honest truth!! The CW Affiliation moved to WUAB 43 on July 16,2018 the same day WBNX 55 reverted back to an independent station. This isn’t nothing new, WUAB was affiliated with UPN from 1995-2006 and The WB affiliation was carried Secondary on WUAB from January 11,1995 until September 1,1997 when WBNX 55 took The WB affiliation leaving WUAB as a full time UPN Affiliate.
Considering, the switch was clean in Cleveland, Atlanta, and some other markets around this time. It could have been a cluster like in Denver...or if the station ownership (Then Group W) was pissed off at ABC for screwing them over, and they protected themselves.
It was all about $$$ FOX bought (5) stations total (8) CBS affiliates for 500 million dollars and FOX outbid CBS for FOX football rights in 1993, so it was a domino effect. Where Scripps Howard leverage a deal that Scripps told ABC if they couldn't switch all their stations to ABC WEWS/Cleveland & WXYZ/Detroit would go to CBS. ABC didn't want that, because both ABC affiliates were dominating. So a trickle down to Group W CBS, NBC that Miami, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver affiliates network switch from 1994-1996 it was a domino effect plus $$$ talks.
@@RustyMuck same for WTVT in the Tampa Bay area. even after affiliation switches in Denver & Salt Lake City the NewsCenter fans spoke out over disagreements to Post-Newsweek for standard hub of the group had defected to Hearst Broadcasting instead.
Rudy Iraheta omg are you stupid or something?!! Jesus Christ yes and the same time in Kansas City WDAF switched from NBC to Fox and KSHB from Fox to NBC so stop trolling the comments it’s pathetic🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🙄😡😡😡
We've had plenty of network affiliation switches over the years.
Late 70s and early 80s saw big ABC-NBC switch in markets, like Atlanta, Charlotte, Indianapolis, San Diego, Twin Cities, and Jacksonville. Jacksonville switch was reversed several years later.
Mid-to-late 80s, switches in Raleigh and Miami. I think Fresno saw a switch.
Mid 90s was big switch, when former New World and Citicasters stations (Atlanta, Greensboro, Cleveland, Detroit, Tampa Bay, Birmingham, Memphis, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and Phoenix) defected to Fox, when Fox took NFC football conference away from CBS, and former Group W and Gaylord stations (Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Dallas-Fort Worth, Salt Lake City, and Seattle) defected to CBS. Seattle switch was reversed 2 years later. Switches also took place in Denver, Sacramento, Charleston (SC), Jacksonville, Mobile, and New Orleans.
2002 would see NBC affiliation switch in San Francisco, CBS affiliation switch in Jacksonville, and Fox affiliation switches in Twin Cities and Portland (OR).
2008 and 2013 saw Fox switches in San Diego and Charlotte, respectively.
2015 saw CBS switch in Indianapolis, and that could change amid pending Nexstar-Tribune merger.
2016 saw CBS-NBC switch in Raleigh.
2017 saw NBC switch in Boston... Not sure whether another switch could be on the way for the New England metropolis.
4 major markets (top 25) outside of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago to keep the same ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliations for 50+ years, and same Fox affiliation since 1986... Washington (DC), Houston, Orlando, and Pittsburgh.
Eric Kirk same in Las Vegas and Orlando, where the same four stations have kept their affiliations since Fox began operations in 1986. Meredith’s deal with CBS did not include either KVVU or its then sister station WOFL in Orlando.
As a side note, the Milwaukee station that switched to Fox, WITI, had been a CBS affiliate twice: once from 1959 until 1961 and then from 1977 to 1994. The second stint with CBS was owed to Storer Broadcasting (then-owner of WITI and WJW) being upset with ABC over that network's unwillingness to appear on a UHF station Storer owned in San Diego named KCST (now NBC O&O KNSD).
WEWS and WXYZ were planned to switch to CBS but in June 1994 a deal was made between ABC and Scripps where WMAR, WFTS and KNXV would become ABC stations in exchange for WEWS and WXYZ remaining ABC stations. This led to the July 1994 deal between Group W and CBS where WBZ, WJZ, and KYW would switch to CBS, joining KDKA and KPIX as existing stations who were already affiliated with CBS. The switch was delayed in Philadelphia because of scrutiny over the planned sale of WCAU by CBS. To alleviate this problem a side deal was announced in November 1994 where KCNC and KUTV would be traded from NBC to CBS in exchange for WCAU, and that would result in KMGH becoming an ABC affiliate and KUSA and KSL converting to NBC. This deal, which was accompanied by a channel swap between WCIX (later WFOR) and WTVJ, was completed in September 1995.
After the affiliation switch, WJW became the only station in Fox's portfolio to have a three-letter call sign.
I believe that's a Sony BVP-360 at 1:54.
It amazes me how this confuses people. I understand that all of the network programming is basically swapped between the 2 stations and each station will change its identity to reflect its affiliation with the new network. That’s it! The station itself isn’t going anywhere
It was BIG for Cleveland itself. We identified WJW as our CBS affiliate for so long, it was monumental for us when we learned about the switch.
It could have been a lot worse. Consider Baltimore, MD, or Miami, FL, or Denver, CO.
I think people over think it sometimes too.
@@newstarcadefan or Phoenix, Arizona...
Well, it was a big deal when WJW hired Wilma Smith (among a few others) away from WEWS about a year earlier...
They used a phone bank to to take calls during the big switch in Denver, Colorado, too!
I'm sure Eric Plunk (or at least Mrs. Plunk) appreciated the birthday rose.
Cleveland would have another network switch in July of 2018 when The CW left WBNX channel 55 and moved to WUAB channel 43 leaving 55 as an independent station.
That switch recently confused me. I think somewhere around 2014 the television show "Who's line is it anyways?" was brought back. It replaced Drew Carry as host with Aiysha Tyler. I thought it ran from 2014-2018. I thought it had been cancelled.
Then recently I found out it's still in production. New episodes are still coming out. And it's still on the CW. So I open up my tivo guide, and I don't see it. Then I'm scrolling through the channel list, and see that 43 is CW, which I never knew happened.
I don't watch traditional TV anymore. So these things escaped me.
I still think of 43 as UPN, and 55 as the WB. I don't know when those changes happened, but I know it was decades ago.
Yes and that’s the god honest truth!! The CW Affiliation moved to WUAB 43 on July 16,2018 the same day WBNX 55 reverted back to an independent station. This isn’t nothing new, WUAB was affiliated with UPN from 1995-2006 and The WB affiliation was carried Secondary on WUAB from January 11,1995 until September 1,1997 when WBNX 55 took The WB affiliation leaving WUAB as a full time UPN Affiliate.
I wanna BNX to duopoly with Tegna’s WKYC and pick up MNTV
Warren switches from Hamburg to Megan because we are good friends
Considering, the switch was clean in Cleveland, Atlanta, and some other markets around this time. It could have been a cluster like in Denver...or if the station ownership (Then Group W) was pissed off at ABC for screwing them over, and they protected themselves.
Or the messy situation that was Detroit
@@hrtvfan2870 Oh yeah....that was a cluster and also Milwaukee when they had to get WDJT on the air post haste.
Wjw tv 8 1994 network transition CBS walker Texas ranger, touched by an angel and Dr.quinn Fox married with children, the Simpsons and NFL on fox.
Browns where in the afc SO THE SWITCH WAS UNLESSIEY.
It was all about $$$ FOX bought (5) stations total (8) CBS affiliates for 500 million dollars and FOX outbid CBS for FOX football rights in 1993, so it was a domino effect. Where Scripps Howard leverage a deal that Scripps told ABC if they couldn't switch all their stations to ABC WEWS/Cleveland & WXYZ/Detroit would go to CBS. ABC didn't want that, because both ABC affiliates were dominating. So a trickle down to Group W CBS, NBC that Miami, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver affiliates network switch from 1994-1996 it was a domino effect plus $$$ talks.
This deal was REALLY made for WJBK in Detroit, WAGA in Atlanta, KSAZ in Phoenix and KDFW in Dallas. WJW was icing on the cake.
@@RustyMuck same for WTVT in the Tampa Bay area. even after affiliation switches in Denver & Salt Lake City the NewsCenter fans spoke out over disagreements to Post-Newsweek for standard hub of the group had defected to Hearst Broadcasting instead.
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actually fox is always on wjw it was independent & metro media
Rudy Iraheta Jesus Christ it wasn’t always on WJW 8 and metromedia never owned WJW omg 🙄🙄
no metro media cleveland
Rudy Iraheta no
the 1st station to switch
Rudy Iraheta omg are you stupid or something?!! Jesus Christ yes and the same time in Kansas City WDAF switched from NBC to Fox and KSHB from Fox to NBC so stop trolling the comments it’s pathetic🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🙄😡😡😡
A big swich from Warren rebic to megan
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