Two weeks until CBS flips locally in Indy. What about the CW?

The last switch in St. Louis was in pre-sub channel days on August 7, 1995. KTVI Channel 2 which was ABC swapped networks with KDNL Channel 30 which was Fox. I still cannot get used to it.

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The last one I can remember in my area was when The CW started up. We had UPN and The WB on the same channel slot...so that a show that aired Wednesday at 9:30 on UPN might not have been seen until Friday at 8:30 or whatever.

So yeah, the creation of The CW actually benefitted us...not that I watch that channel.

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@dwinth wrote:

The last switch in St. Louis was in pre-sub channel days on August 7, 1995. KTVI Channel 2 which was ABC swapped networks with KDNL Channel 30 which was Fox. I still cannot get used to it.

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I was 17 when the 1979 ABC/NBC flip happened and I was hurt.  I could not believe that a greedy corporation would do that.  Boy did I learn something that year.  It kind of backfired on WRTV, as ABC started slipping and NBC rose a 10 year high, after that.

Last one we've had in metro Detroit was the 1994 WJBK 2 switching from CBS to Fox when Fox bought the station.  So CBS struck out on many other stations in Detroit and had to settle to buy low power WGPR 62 from the black masons, one of the only black owned stations in the US.

They were all for it getting a big payday, but a number of individuals tried to block the sale and was not decided until CBS won in the courts in 1996.

CBS had to toss tons of money into WWJ-TV 62 in equipment and broadcast facilities.  It was funny they promised to have news operations up and running quickly, but that never occurred.

Turns out the switch was all about Fox getting the right to NFL games, before the sales/buys, only 3 teams were on Fox stations, after, almost all of them were on Fox stations. 😉

Chris
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RE: My question for this part, is there some back end work done by AT&T, where CBS DVR series will automatically migrate from 8/1008 to 4 or 1004?

Of course not.

First the structure is not there to do it & second (also because) it hardly ever happens. As you said.

I will speculate that one of two things will happen -

Nothing will change & the wrong shows will be recorded.

or

The channel ID will be removed & the series record will remain, but not be viable, resulting in no recordings scheduled.

My suggestion is that you check the DVR scheduled & your favorites guide each day for a week to reset for the future. Alternatively, you can run down the series list for changes & perhaps clean up any obsolete listings.

If you have any listings with no recordings scheduled you can remove them unless it is a series that will return.

Well shut my mouth!  Talk about a last second deal; The CW will be coming to WISH TV, on Jan 1st!

Every announcement that I've seen since August has said that the CW will move to WTTV 4.2.  An AT&T manager (trough another) said early on that WISH may get the CW.  I said to myself "no way" since CBS (a major stakeholder) burned bridges with WISH TV and vice versa but all is good and no subchannel drama for Indianapolis.

Currently (as of 12/27), WISH TV's post New Year's Guide entries are showing as CBS's, as are WTTV's.  i.e. Monday 1/5 WTTV is showing with Mike and Molly and so is WISH TV.  Oops.