WBUPN
Posted on | January 24, 2006 at 8:17 pm | 7 Comments
Big day for news in the entertainment world, as Disney has agreed to buy Pixar for 7.4 billion dollars. Personally, I think it should be the other way around and Pixar should buy Disney. And then there’s the announced merger of the UPN and WB TV networks into a single entity. I guess they were tired of competing with each other for the same demographics at the bottom of the network TV ratings scrap heap. Does this mean that ratings will improve double-fold for the shows that are left on the combined network? I doubt it. The new network starts in the fall and will be called CW, which stands not for “Country Western” like you’d think, but for “CBS/Warner Bros”, the two parent companies of the existing networks which are combining ownership. What’s going to happen to local WB & UPN network affliates – is every city going to have two CW outlets? CW is supposedly going to try to target a “young, ethnic” crowd (according to this article), much like the existing source networks are trying to do today. More power to those wishing to create more diverse programming, but I think all “young and ethnic” people should rise up in protest against this patronizing, divisive demographic crap and request that the network just make intelligent programming aimed at all people (yes, I’m naive). But I guess people who are into intelligent programming don’t buy the sponsored products (or skip the commercials with their TiVos).
But anyway, I think anything that reduces the number of TV networks these days is a good thing. There’s too many viewing choices out there as it is. Now I never have to worry about Smallville being shown in the same timeslot as Veronica Mars! Ain’t life grand?
Next Up: More than you ever wanted to know about guys wearing rubber suits and wrestling each other.
Latre.
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7 Responses to “WBUPN”
January 24th, 2006 @ 9:30 pm
I thought both WB and UPN lacked outlets in a lot of locations. Whatever. There’s only one show between the two networks that I watch anyway.
January 24th, 2006 @ 10:19 pm
Yeah Jeff, we know how you have to have your Project Runway.
I’m assuming that most big markets at least have both a UPN and WB affiliate (like Denver does), and my assumptions always have an aura of truthiness.
January 24th, 2006 @ 11:02 pm
The bigger news IMHO is that Steve Jobs is essentially taking over Disney, as some computer industry columnists have predicted for years now (esp. Cringely). Not bad for a guy who 30 years ago just happened to meet a buddy who was good with electronics…
Jobs bought George Lucas’ CGI company in ‘86 for about $10 million to launch Pixar. According to my math (I’m no banker) that makes for a 3800% annual return on investment.
January 25th, 2006 @ 8:05 am
One More Thing… Steve Jobs will soon own the WORLD! And he’ll store it on his iPod.
Correction: In my reply to 2Fs, I should’ve said America’s Next Top Model, not Project Runway (since PR is on Bravo, not UPN).
January 25th, 2006 @ 1:22 pm
Correction: In my reply to 2Fs, I should’ve said America’s Next Top Model, not Project Runway (since PR is on Bravo, not UPN).
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Yeah – we all knew that, but we let you slide since otherwise, you’re so truthy (truthinessy? truthinessful? truthinesque?).
January 25th, 2006 @ 1:45 pm
I vote for “truthy.” What I want to know is: where’s America’s Next Bottom Model?
January 25th, 2006 @ 4:45 pm
Update: I read in another article that supposedly the WB stations will be converting to CW. So where does that leave the UPN stations?
2Fs, America’s Next Bottom Model (Trina) is busy on Colfax servicing cowboys.
One More Thing… Bill Gates Runs Like A Girl.