MyNetworkTV and The CW

[DM was on fire!]

OK, guys. As you may or may not know, everyone's WBs and UPNs will soon be shifted to MyNetworkTV and The CW. So I have a couple questions for you guys.

1 - Which will be your CW (UPN or WB?) and which will be your MNTV?
2 - Have your stations changed call letters? (If so, what are they?)
3 - When are the launch dates for your CW and MNTV?

I'm just a very curious person. XD My answers are the following.

1 - My CW will be a UPN, and my WB will be a MNTV.
2 - Both our stations have changed call letters. Our UPN/CW was WASV, and now it's WYCW. Our WB/MNTV was WBSC, and is now WMYA (My 40).
3 - The CW here has already been launched, and our MNTV is going to be September 5.

[Dragonfire]

Well, I'm not sure here, but in Austin I know we're only having the CW. It's launching sometime in September, and it's going to be the WB and UPN combined.

As for the letters, the WB was KNVA, and UPN was something else (don't remember because I didn't watch it much). What's odd is the UPN Austin has is based in San Antonio, so I dunno.

[Pudding]

I know we're not having MyNetworkTV, but the situation with the CW is confusing. We get two WB affiliates: one broadcasting from Chicago and one from Louisville. Both will be CW affiliates, same call letters and all. We've got our own UPN, which is probably just going to disappear.

Now, the weird part is that our CBS affiliate (UPN's parent company) is going to be the CW affiliate. They're changing channels, but not call letters. I guess we'll be getting a new CBS affiliate, but I've got no idea what's going on there.

I think they're all launching next week. Well, at least I won't need to worry much about Veronica Mars getting pre-empted for local minor league baseball this season.

[Hil]

UPN is my CW and WB is MNTV. I don't think they changed call numbers, I haven't really paid attention to that.

CW 31 launch date - The CW network's formal launch date is September 20.
My58 launch date - MNTV's formal launch date is September 5.

[Anoohilator]

Can someone translate all the acronyms?

[Dragonfire]

Can someone translate all the acronyms?

Okay, let's see...

MNTV: MyNetworkTV
WB: Warner Brothers
UPN: United Paramount Network (though the long name isn't used)
CW: CBS-Warner Brothers (though again, the long name isn't used)

CBS owned UPN and Warner Brothers owned The WB, so they're combining it and doing a joint partnership, thus the CW.

And MyNetworkTV is owned by News Corp. which owns the FOX network. MNTV is what the Fox-owned UPN or WB stations will turn into, since they won't be joined the CW Network.

[Atamand]

In New York, our CW will be on the WB's old channel, and MNTV will be on UPN's old one. I'm not sure of the call letters.

Then again, I'm not gonna watch them, seeing as how I don't watch UPN or the WB now.

[theonlysaneone]

I stopped watching the WB about 5 years ago, and I've never watched UPN. Frankly, I didn't even know they had changed.

[Xandra]

1 - Which will be your CW (UPN or WB?) and which will be your MNTV?
2 - Have your stations changed call letters? (If so, what are they?)
3 - When are the launch dates for your CW and MNTV?

MY UPN will be my MNTV and my WB will be my CW. Very good, as I'll never watch MNTV and while my reception of both the former UPN and WB are beyond poor, the reception for WB is usually at least slightly watchable.

UPN is WUTB, WB is WNUV. Neither have changed.

Launch date of CW (WB)- September, apparently, it's probably already up, though I haven't checked. Launch date of MNTV (UPN)- September 5.

[Yoshi]

1. My UPN will be my CW; I don't have a WB affiliate available- I'd have to buy an Eastern feed. Not like I mind, I don't watch any WB shows.
2. No, it's still KSTW from Seattle. It may change, although I probably won't notice.
3. I don't remember...ack. But Veronica Mars is launching in mid-October, and that's the only show out of the two old networks that I watch, so I don't need to know.

[Shoyru_Lover]

You americans and all your channels dunno how you guys do it lol. only 5 channels here on network tv.

[Dragonfire]

You americans and all your channels dunno how you guys do it lol. only 5 channels here on network tv.

Well, for network TV I have 6 network TV channels (FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, WB, UPN) which will turn into 5 once WB and UPN merge.

And actually, I think that's the max amount of network channels anyhow.