How the 1994-96 realignment worked differently if WCAU became a Fox station instead of NBC?

Chapter 581: May 2018 (Part 2)
  • Summer telenovelas hit

    Fox is doing their summer telenovelas for 2018. Among them was Northern Bay High, a show about a fictional group of high school students, and Beach Break 2, the sequel to last year's Fox telenovela Beach Break.

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    FOX picks up ROH

    The Fox Broadcasting Company is picking up the Ring of Honor Wrestling, which was suited for Saturday nights, which will succeed nearly years after the longtime Fox show Cops was going to get cancelled.

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    Sabrina trailer has strong views

    YouTube is posting stronger viewers in its first day (2,000,000 views) for the first trailer of UPN's upcoming Riverdale spin-off The Charming Adventures of Sabrina, which was about to start this fall.

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    WBZ to have new look

    WBZ-TV, the CBS television affiliate for the Boston television market is getting them a simplified look, with simple graphics, and a simpler version of the CBS Enforcer theme used by CBS affiliates.

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    WJZ to have new look

    WJZ-TV, the CBS television affiliate for the Baltimore television market is unveiling a brand new look, featuring a simplified version of the graphics, and a simplified version of the Chroma Cues theme.
     
    Chapter 582: June 2018 (Part 1)
  • CBS games are back!

    CBS is going back to the game shows with new seasons of Card Sharks (the ABC revival has been butterflied away), TattleTales (the HBO Max revival has been also butterflied away) and Now You See It, three of the 1970s game show revivals that went popular again.

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    Fox plays the pinball again!

    Fox is playing The Pinball Game again, with decorated over-the-top tables in order to score all the winning points, scoring 1,000,000 from the pinball table over again in order to win on the big table.

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    WB gets reboots

    The WB is gaining a boost/reputation, being stronger ratings from the three new seasons of the hit game shows Tic-Tac Dough, Dice Fever and Bingo, both of them received stronger performers.

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    KDKA to get simplified

    KDKA-TV, the CBS television affiliate that covered the Pittsburgh market is unveiling a new look, with simplified graphics, and a simplified version of the CBS Enforcer theme to align with the other CBS O&Os.

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    KUSA to have new look

    KUSA-TV, the CBS television station for the whole Denver television market is unveiling a brand new look, with CBS' simplified graphics, first introduced on WCBS-TV in New York City, and a simplified Enforcer theme.
     
    Chapter 583: June 2018 (Part 2)
  • KSTU to unveil new look

    KSTU, the CBS television station that covered the Salt Lake City television area is unveiling a brand new look, with the simplified CBS O&O graphics, and a simplified version of the Enforcer theme, first introduced on WCBS in 2018.

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    WATL to get update

    WATL, the CBS television station that covered the Atlanta television market is unveiling a brand new look, with the simplified version of the current CBS O&O graphics, and a simpler version of the Enforcer theme that was currently rolling out to CBS O&Os in 2018.

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    MGM+ launches

    MGM+, the name of the new streaming service is launching this month, hits 1,000,000 subscribers at launch, featuring titles from the MGM and United Artists libraries, promoting the way to the new network.

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    New spin-off

    UPN is investigating a new spin-off of Riverdale, Katy Keene, with high hopes to premiere the show in the 2019-2020 television season, which had high hopes to debut in the same universe as the other Archie shows.

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    Archie Universe

    UPN is also promoting a crossover event between all of the Archie shows aired on UPN, and a tie-in comic book, as all the Archie superheroes (Red Circle) and the Archie characters (Riverdale) meet together.
     
    Chapter 584: July 2018 (Part 1)
  • UPN avoids the whammy

    The United Paramount Network is avoiding the whammy, but Press Your Luck (ABC's revival would be butterflied away) will be back this summer, as they prepare to win $1,000,000 without going to avoid all Whammies all around the space.

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    NBC revives game

    NBC is reviving Blockbusters, this time around for another year, this time there's another big victory who scored it, the $2,000,000 Gold Rush, which is a prize increase that they would win infinitely.

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    FOXNOW/Tubi to have increase

    FOXNOW and Tubi, both units of 21st Century Fox, Inc. is giving them a subscription/pay demand increase, in order to boost up coverage to 12 million subscribers in order to earn the pay amount of money.

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    KDAF to unveil new look

    KDAF, branded as "CBS 11" is unveiling a brand new look, with simpler graphics, and a simplified version of the CBS Enforcer theme in order to be aligned in line with all the other CBS network O&Os.

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    KOVR to simplify

    KOVR, the CBS affiliate in Sacramento is unveiling a brand new look, still branded as "CBS 13", with simplified graphics and a simplified version of the CBS Enforcer theme that was used by CBS affiliates.
     
    Chapter 585: July 2018 (Part 2)
  • Viewer increases

    Viewers are increasing from the newer seasons of the summer game shows airing on CBS, UPN, NBC, Fox and The WB, but ABC yet received one game in the summer of the next year, so these plans came in.

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    Early renewal picked up

    CBS is getting an early renewal for three of the hit game shows TattleTales, Now You See It and Card Sharks, both of these 1970s game shows that were going to be modernized for the 21st century.

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    Merchandise promotion

    Merchandise is set out for The Charming Adventures of Sabrina, and it had bigger hopes to make the show newly magical, in order to set up all of their highest viewings from one of their audiences, which was set to debut in the fall of 2018.

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    KPHO to get simplified

    KPHO, the CBS affiliate television station in the Phoenix market is unveiling a new look, with updated graphics, which was simplified, as well as a much simplified version of the CBS Enforcer theme.

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    WCCO has simplified treatment

    WCCO, the CBS television station for the Minneapolis/St. Paul market is getting simplified, with simplified version of the graphics and a simplified version of the CBS Enforcer theme used by CBS affiliates.
     
    Chapter 586: August 2018 (Part 1)
  • NBC earns early renewal

    NBC is giving them an early renewal order for the hit game show Blockbusters, for another year, in 2019 and had high hopes to play it again with the $1,000,000+ Gold Run, which could score big.

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    FOX earns renewal

    FOX is giving them a renewal for one of the highest-successful game shows The Pinball Game, for another year, in order to put emphasis towards all of the national FOX viewers and the local FOX viewers it benefits.

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    WB goes for renewal

    The WB is going for renewal of the three highly-successful summer game shows Tic-Tac Dough, Dice Fever and Bingo, three of the biggest contestants who could win over a million dollars and decided to be a hit.

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    WKRC to get simplified

    The CBS television station for the Cincinnati television market, WKRC is getting more simplified, with even simpler graphics, and a simplified version of the CBS Enforcer theme used by many O&Os.

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    KCPQ is going simple

    The CBS network station for the Seattle television market, KCPQ is unveiling a brand new look, with much simpler graphics aligning with the other CBS O&Os, and a simplified version of the CBS Enforcer theme used by most CBS network affiliates.
     
    Chapter 587: August 2018 (Part 2)
  • WJXT underwent simplify

    WJXT, the CBS television affiliate for the Jacksonville market is underwent simplification, with newer simple graphics, and an even simpler version of the CBS Enforcer theme that was used by many CBS O&Os.

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    WCPX to have new look

    WCPX, the CBS television station for the Orlando television market is unveiling a brand new look, with simpler graphics, and even the same simpler version of the CBS Enforcer theme as the other CBS O&Os.

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    UPN hits renewal!

    UPN is hitting down the renewal on the game show Press Your Luck, with the hopes of playing the game again in 2019, so there are no whammies to boost, in order to earn your own top score.

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    Fox is promising them

    Fox is giving promise to do telenovelas early next month. Among them was The Four Seasons: Part 2, a sequel to the hit four-part show The Four Seasons, and Garden Time, a show all about the garden environment.

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    Action/adventure boosted

    The 2017-18 season will be boosted by their lineup of action-adventure programming, which boosts its up with major success sparkled by Fox, UPN and The WB via their co-owned properties, including Marvel, Archie and DC.
     
    Chapter 588: September 2018 (Part 1)
  • Fall preview set

    UPN is setting up their fall preview, promising the breakout show of the season, The Charming Adventures of Sabrina, which was a spin-off of the hit UPN series Riverdale, along with the other strong hits.

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    WB goes to fall

    The WB is going to get a fall preview promotion with Batwoman being the highlight of The WB's primetime lineup, as well as All American, which is designed to air during the football season.

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    Archie crossover

    UPN's series Black Hood, The Web, The New Powers, Riverdale, The Mighty Crusaders and The Charming Adventures of Sabrina (six Archie properties) were planning on to gear up for a super-spectacular crossover event in October.

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    WNEP to have new look

    WNEP, CBS' television station for the Scranton area is unveiling a new look, with even simpler graphics, and a simpler arrangement of the 1970s theme "Move Closer to Your World", to be in line with the other CBS O&Os.

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    WREG to have new look

    WREG, the CBS television station for the Memphis television market is unveiling a brand new look and a modified set, with even more simpler graphics, and a simpler rendition of the CBS Enforcer theme.
     
    Chapter 589: September 2018 (Part 2)
  • Streaming entered

    Ex-Family Video employees are launching a streaming service NightVision, which was meant to produce material strongly designed for an adult audience, in order for all adults to watch these programs.

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    NY PBS stations consolidated

    It is announced that a group of New York State PBS stations, consisting of WSKG-TV, WNED-TV, WLIW, WCFE, WXXI, WMHT, WCNY, WPBS and WNET would merge together to form "New York PBS".

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    Tons of merchandise

    Tons of merchandise are collected from UPN's next month series The Charming Adventures of Sabrina, which is a dark reboot of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch franchise, with tie-in comics from Archie Comics.

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    KCCI to get new look

    KCCI, the CBS network station for the Des Moines television market is unveiling a new look, with the simpler CBS O&O graphics package introduced by WCBS in 2018, along with a simpler version of the Enforcer theme.

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    WLKY to have new look

    WLKY, the CBS television affiliate and station for the Louisville television market is unveiling a brand new look, with WCBS' graphics that were introduced in 2018 and a simpler version of the Enforcer theme.
     
    Chapter 590: October 2018 (Part 1)
  • UPN started off strong

    UPN is starting off strong were the sitcoms Construction Workers, Sign Tools and The Charming Adventures of Sabrina, a Riverdale spin-off, which gained higher respect in television ratings, with bigger audiences.

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    Archieverse

    Archie Comics announced that the UPN Archie shows would share in the same universe, dubbed the Archieverse, which combined superheroes from Red Circle with the teenagers from Riverdale.

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    WB hits strong

    The WB is hitting the stronger momentum with such hits from the beginning like Batwoman, Brokerages and All American, which both gained stronger and higher respect in terms of ratings.

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    WWOR to get new look

    WWOR, the UPN station for Seacaus, N.J. and a New York City television station is unveiling a brand new look, still branded as "UPN 9 News", and introduced newer graphics and a new custom theme based on Gari's "The Paramount".

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    WTVH to get new look

    WTVH, the CBS affiliate for the Syracuse television market is unveiling a brand new look, with a simpler graphics package based on that from WCBS-TV, and a simpler version of the Enforcer theme.
     
    Chapter 591: October 2018 (Part 2)
  • Expanded merchandise set

    UPN is releasing the expanded merchandise set for The Charming Adventures of Sabrina, with tie-ins from Hasbro, and comic books from Archie Comics, which is highly more valuable in prices.

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    Hardy Boys reboot

    UPN is planning on to do reboots of both The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, both of them properties of the Simon & Schuster book group, to be produced by corporate sibling Paramount Television, and puts it in the world of Riverdale.

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    Star Trek spinoff planned

    After the surprising success of Star Trek: Discovery, UPN is ordering spin-offs of Star Trek, starting with a continuation/sequel series to Star Trek: The Next Generation, entitled Picard, which revolves around the continuation of the Picard storyline.

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    WPWR gets new look

    WPWR, the second UPN station is unveiling a new look, with new corporate graphics and a new music package to put emphasis onto the UPN strategy, where all newscasts were very successful.

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    KOIN to get new look

    KOIN, the CBS network station that covered much of Portland is unveiling a new look, with brand-new graphics, and a simpler version of the CBS Enforcer theme, both of these elements were first used by sister station WCBS in 2018.
     
    Chapter 592: November 2018 (Part 1)
  • WNEM to have new look

    WNEM, the CBS television station for the Flint market is unveiling its new look, with simplified version of the CBS O&O graphics, as seen on WCBS, as well as a more simpler techno-sounding Enforcer theme.

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    WWJ to have new look

    WWJ-TV, CBS' station in the Detroit area is unveiling a brand new look, with brand-new graphics based on WCBS' look from 2018, and a new music package, which is also based on the CBS Enforcer theme.

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    Full season order

    UPN is giving them full season orders for stronger-performing shows Sign Tools, Construction Workers and the hit Riverdale spin-off The Charming Adventures of Sabrina, with the hopes of going it popular.

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    WB's full season commitment

    The WB is earning their full season commitments to Batwoman, All American and Brokerages, which are three of the stronger-performing shows that was to be aired on The WB, up for higher ratings.

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    Hastings go fast

    Hastings Entertainment with its dedicated streaming service became the fastest-selling streaming service with its biggest titles of 2,000,000 movies and TV shows, of which they acquired from various production companies.
     
    Chapter 593: November 2018 (Part 2)
  • The Chessmaster returns!

    The WB is officially bringing back The Chessmaster this winter, as players wanted to beat their own chess once again, in order to earn top victories of $1,000,000 in cash or in prizes and so on.

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    CBS bringing back games

    CBS is bringing back their two game shows, which are Match Game and Treasure Hunt, which will be out this winter, in the promise of getting the shows back on the air, for successful play.

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    FOX gets the two games back

    FOX is getting back to play the two games The Pyramid and Name That Tune, which are two of the strongest-performing game shows FOX had delivered on the air, and hopes that they would play and help them win in cash.

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    KCOP to have new graphics

    KCOP, the UPN television station for the Greater Los Angeles area is unveiling a brand new look, adopting the same graphics the WWOR station had via new graphics, and the same new music package as WWOR.

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    KCPQ to have new look

    KCPQ, the CBS affiliate for the Seattle market is getting the way to a brand new look, rebranding it as "CBS Q13 News", with brand-new graphics and a simplified version of the CBS Enforcer music package.
     
    Chapter 594: December 2018 (Part 1)
  • Josie spin-off

    UPN is planning on to do a spin-off of Riverdale, called Katy Keane, with the hopes to go into pilot stage for the 2019-2020 television season, and would be tied into the Archie Comics television properties.

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    New merchandise

    New merchandise is doing fast this Christmas for the merchandise of Archie Comics-based and adapted properties for the film and screen, the television versions are produced by Paramount for UPN.

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    Is streaming fast?

    Hastings Entertainment had picked up/acquired 5 new streaming shows for debut in the fall of 2019. One of the shows Hastings had picked up was an unspecified action/adventure show set in the NYPD.

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    KBHK to get new look

    KBHK, the UPN television station for the San Francisco Bay Area is unveiling a new look, with brand new graphics and a custom theme based on "The Paramount" signature, and a new decorated set.

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    WTOG to have new look

    WTOG, the UPN television affiliate for the Tampa Bay Area is unveiling a brand new look, to be aligned in line with the other UPN Big City O&Os, with newer graphics and a new music package, retaining its existing news set.
     
    Chapter 595: December 2018 (Part 2)
  • IDW/Archie merger

    It is announced that IDW Comics and Archie Comics Publications are heading to a merger, which cost $1.6 billion, and it combines the IDW and Archie lines, following the success of the Archie shows on the CW.

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    New Fox telenovelas

    New telenovelas is being planned for the Fox Broadcasting Company, for start in 2019. These are Secret Snow II, the sequel to the Fox telenovela Secret Snow, and When the Weather Attacks, a show when the snow attacks the weather.

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    New spinoffs on the rise

    UPN is prepping new spin-offs set in the same universe as the Archie superhero shows. These are an adaptation of the Archie superhero The Comet, which pilot would be shown on The Mighty Crusaders.

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    WDCA to have new look

    WDCA, and its satellite station in Baltimore, WNUV is unveiling a brand new look, with brand-new graphics, a brand new, slightly modified set and a brand new music package to be aligned with the other O&Os.

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    KTXA to get new look

    With KTXA's news department for the Dallas/Fort Worth television market, KTXA was unveiling a brand new look, with brand-new graphics similar to WWOR's and a new music package, also the same as WWOR's.
     
    Chapter 596: January 2019 (Part 1)
  • The games are back!

    CBS is getting back to the two games on the nationwide network, Match Game 2019, and Treasure Hunt, new seasons of these series, along them all treasures would be collected to earn $1,000,000 on both game shows.

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    The WB is back!

    The WB is returning to have a new season of the winter's most watched network game show, The Chessmaster. All players have to take turns, either on black or on white, and help players win again.

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    FOX returns

    Fox is returning to two new seasons of the games, which are highly successful, The Pyramid and Name That Tune, both modernized revivals of the 1970s/1980s hit game shows, and both received a million-dollar top prize.

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    KTZZ to have new look

    KTZZ, UPN's Seattle television station is unveiling a brand-new look for its newscasts, with the WWOR graphics and a new music package, also based on that of WWOR's 2018 news music package.

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    WPSG to have new look

    WPSG, UPN's O&O station for the entire Philadelphia television market is unveiling a brand new look, with an adaptation of the WWOR graphics and music package plus a modified version of the WWOR set.
     
    Chapter 597: January 2019 (Part 2)
  • WB gives pilot order

    The WB is giving them a pilot order for The Lost Boys, and a new Arrow spin-off, and a prequel to The 100, plus comedy commitments in Getoff Together, a new sitcom, and Husband Couples, another new Friends-type sitcom.

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    UPN have pilots

    UPN is giving them pilot orders for Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Katy Keene, Jane the Novela, Glamorous and the sitcoms Love and the Family and Wives in the House, two of the big-ticket pilots UPN offered.

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    Hastings to revive 90s show

    The video rental streaming service Hastings Entertainment is doing a revival of the 1990s show Caroline in the City, produced by Sony Pictures, and all the original cast would return in a series of 13 new episodes.

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    KWTV to have new look

    KWTV, the CBS television station for the greater Oklahoma City area is unveiling a brand new look, with brand-new graphics, a new set and a simplified version of the CBS Enforcer music package.

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    KOTV adapted new look

    KOTV, the CBS television station in Tulsa, and a semi-satellite of KWTV in Oklahoma City was unveiling a new look, with newer and simplified graphics based on WCBS' graphics as well as a simplified version of the CBS Enforcer music package.
     
    Chapter 598: February 2019 (Part 1)
  • Hastings to buy cartoon

    Jim Jinkins announced that they would buy back the Doug characters from Disney, and announced that Hastings Entertainment would develop a second revival of the 1990s cartoon Doug, following iterations from Nickelodeon and Disney.

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    UPN+ to hit big

    UPN+, the streaming service has greenlit its own adaptation of the young adult novel series An Ember in the Ashes, as an 13-episode order for the new and fastest-growing streaming service.

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    Family Video to get sitcom

    The streaming service Family Video is receiving a new sitcom, Households, which is a single-camera comedy similar to Fox's Malcolm in the Middle, and Lionsgate served as producers of the show.

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    KOCB to have new look

    The UPN station KOCB in Oklahoma City was unveiling a brand new look, with newer graphics that was based off of WWOR's and a new music package that was also developed for WWOR last year.

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    KUTP to get new look

    KUTP, the UPN television station that covered the Phoenix television market was unveiling a brand new look, with brand-new graphics, and a new music package that was developed last year by WWOR and a modified set for its news operation.
     
    Chapter 599: February 2019 (Part 2)
  • Hastings file lawsuit

    Shortly after the announcement Jim Jenkins had bought back the Doug characters, trademark, merchandise and IP from Disney and announced that Hastings Entertainment would make a streaming revival of the 1990s Nicktoon Doug, Viacom filed a lawsuit against Hastings Entertainment to make a revival of the 1990s Nicktoon classic.

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    Renewed again

    CBS is renewing the hit game shows Match Game and Treasure Hunt for another year, preparing the way to come back for a new season of games, which all have $1,000,000 big winners and victories once again.

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    Chessmaster renewed

    The WB is renewing the hit classic game show, The Chessmaster, which it began in 2010, for another year, and hoping all plans that they would be in its tenth anniversary of the freshman game show.

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    WSBK to unveil new look

    WSBK, the UPN television network O&O affiliate for the Greater Boston area is unveiling a new look, with newer graphics based on WWOR's, as well as the same music package to put audience appeal.

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    WGPR getting new look

    WGPR, the UPN network O&O for Detroit is unveiling a new look, with brand new graphics, a new newsroom set and a new music package that was essentially based on the WWOR package last year.
     
    Chapter 600: March 2019 (Part 1)
  • Hastings gave up

    After a lawsuit filed by Viacom for reviving the classic 90s Nicktoon without authorization of Nickelodeon, Hastings Entertainment has officially pulling the plug on a second revival of the 1990s Nicktoon Doug.

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    FOX goes to renewal

    The Fox Broadcasting Company is giving them renewals of the two hit and high-profile newer game shows The Pyramid, started in 2009, and Name That Tune, which also started in 2009, became hit starlets.

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    New renewals

    The WB is scoring a new renewal of the hit show Batwoman, with an overhauled cast and crew, and a new actor who had to portray Batwoman as herself, in order to decorate their newer sets.

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    KTXH to have new look

    KTXH in Houston was unveiling a brand new look, as a UPN owned-and-operated station, with brand new and updated graphics, a new set and a new music package, both of these were debuted on WWOR in 2018.

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    WBFS to have new look

    WBFS, the Miami television station and West Palm Beach satellite station WTVX, both UPN affiliates, is giving them a new look, still branded as "33/34", with a new set and a new music package, based on that debuted on WWOR last year.
     
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