My network Tv not a network proper

[blef]

.....because MyNetworkTV (now MyTV, I guess) is no longer a network.

www.variety.com/article/VR1118009355.html?categoryid=14&ref=ra&cs=1

MyNetworkTV exits ratings game
Nielsen to distribute numbers in syndication report

Now that it's no longer a network, MyNetworkTV is out of the nightly ratings game.

Nielsen informed its clients Tuesday that MyNetworkTV has stopped supplying program information to its daily reporting service effective this week.

Instead, MyNetworkTV will now receive its numbers as part of the
weekly syndication ratings report, which is released every Tuesday.

Move comes as MyNet officially morphed on Monday from a network into a programming service, airing off-net programming and movies as well as "WWE Smackdown" on Fridays.

Twentieth Television, which runs the programming service, will continue to sell MyNet's ad time based on those syndie numbers.

Although it will no longer receive daily national ratings, MyNet will
still get some semblance of a daily report card via overnight ratings for Nielsen's 56 metered markets (although those numbers are generally ignored by network execs, who receive more accurate fast national ratings in the morning).

Twentieth execs were pleased with the early results from Monday night's back-to-back airings of NBC U's off-net "Law and Order: Criminal Intent." The two hours were up 43% in the metered markets vs. the same night a year ago, when MyNet aired the two-hour "Celebrity Expose."

MyNet's sked also includes "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader" and "Deal or No Deal" on Tuesdays, back-to-back segs of "The Unit" on Wednesdays and movies on Thursday.

Apologies if this was reported before...

[Chainsaw]

Without the weekly ratings, I don't see WWE wanting to keep Smackdown on MyNetwork for too much longer. I wouldn't expect them to renew with them past their contract expiring.

[oafman]

Wow, how is the 10th Anniversary of Smackdown gonna air?!

EDIT: Wait, Smackdown will still air for now right?

[Lair of the Shadow MaDaBa]

SmackDown! is still on the air--the main difference is that, on paper, it is in syndication.

[AriadosMan]

Sept 30, 2009 19:34:39 GMT -5 @oafman said:

Wow, how is the 10th Anniversary of Smackdown gonna air?!

EDIT: Wait, Smackdown will still air for now right?

Yes, it will still air.
Smackdown is now on MyNet, which has changed into a syndicated package ala Retro TV and THISTV and ION, rather than a proper network.
Problem with this is MyNet has lost enough affiliates that Smackdown is now the ONLY original programming it has. It would cease to have any real draw without Smackdown.

[EJS]

Sept 30, 2009 19:40:11 GMT -5 AriadosMan said:

Sept 30, 2009 19:34:39 GMT -5 @oafman said:

Wow, how is the 10th Anniversary of Smackdown gonna air?!

EDIT: Wait, Smackdown will still air for now right?

Yes, it will still air.
Smackdown is now on MyNet, which has changed into a syndicated package ala Retro TV and THISTV and ION, rather than a proper network.
Problem with this is MyNet has lost enough affiliates that Smackdown is now the ONLY original programming it has. It would cease to have any real draw without Smackdown.

5th Grader and Deal or No Deal are also new episodes.

[Chainsaw]

Sept 30, 2009 19:51:12 GMT -5 EJS said:

Sept 30, 2009 19:40:11 GMT -5 AriadosMan said:

Yes, it will still air.
Smackdown is now on MyNet, which has changed into a syndicated package ala Retro TV and THISTV and ION, rather than a proper network.
Problem with this is MyNet has lost enough affiliates that Smackdown is now the ONLY original programming it has. It would cease to have any real draw without Smackdown.

5th Grader and Deal or No Deal are also new episodes.

But they're shot as a syndicated show rather than any kind of real on-air presence. Currently, both shows are off Fox and NBC, respectively, while the fall shows air. it's the same kind of deal that they do with Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, just with the regular hosts.

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Sept 30, 2009 19:34:17 GMT -5 Chainsaw said:

Without the weekly ratings, I don't see WWE wanting to keep Smackdown on MyNetwork for too much longer. I wouldn't expect them to renew with them past their contract expiring.

I wouldn't be surprised if the contract had an out that allows them to negotiate with other networks and break the deal if something like this happened. WWE signed to be on network TV, MyNet isn't holding up it's end of the deal

[Yami Daimao]

This is WWE's chance to put Smackdown on a better network on a better day.

[taylorandborland]

Question is, where do they go? No way they get a spot on Fox, and UPN doesn't exist anymore.

NBC aired Vince's XFL fiasco, didn't they? And they show Tributes to the Troops and SNMEs too.

Maybe...just maybe...

[Deleted]

Not sure what network SmackDown should be moved to after its time with MyCursedTV is over, but I say put it on Wednesdays. No sense shuffling or canceling Superstars to put it back on Thursdays and Wednesdays are the night for me when nothing's on anyway.

Granted, I could theoretically see them trying to put it on from 9 to 11 on Thursdays to try and kill Impact - would probably succeed too if they got a decent channel for it.

[CMWaters]

Sept 30, 2009 20:04:50 GMT -5 Yami Daimao said:

This is WWE's chance to put Smackdown on a better network on a better day.

The better day thing...really, where can they go?

Yeah, half a year ago or so they had the Thursday choice, but now Superstars is their choice for that day.

I'm sure fewer people would watch it on Saturday than they would on Friday (though you never know, maybe it'd work at 6:00 (or 6:05)).

Sundays are PPV nights, so that's a no-go.

Only other night would be Wednesday...meaning 4 straight days of WWE.

[Dub H]

I hope it means new theme

[Lance Uppercut]

Sept 30, 2009 20:07:57 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Not sure what network SmackDown should be moved to after its time with MyCursedTV is over, but I say put it on Wednesdays. No sense shuffling or canceling Superstars to put it back on Thursdays and Wednesdays are the night for me when nothing's on anyway.

Granted, I could theoretically see them trying to put it on from 9 to 11 on Thursdays to try and kill Impact - would probably succeed too if they got a decent channel for it.

I could really see that too. It would be interesting to see where they would go. I WGN might be cool with another night of wrestling. Maybe they would go completely weird and shoot for something like ION. ION seems more legit then MyNetwork at this point.

[Sajoa Moe]

But how will WWE brag about Smackdown beating meaningless programming in the Did You Know segments?

[Deleted]

Sept 30, 2009 20:11:15 GMT -5 Sajoa Moe said:

But how will WWE brag about Smackdown beating meaningless programming in the Did You Know segments?

Did you know? SmackDown regularly outperforms 1 AM reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

[Yami Daimao]

Sept 30, 2009 20:12:53 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Sept 30, 2009 20:11:15 GMT -5 Sajoa Moe said:

But how will WWE brag about Smackdown beating meaningless programming in the Did You Know segments?

Did you know? SmackDown regularly outperforms 1 AM reruns of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Sad thing is, I can actually see them doing that.

[Sajoa Moe]

Sept 30, 2009 20:11:03 GMT -5 Dub H said:

I hope it means new theme

According to this week's spoilers, they do have a new theme and video.

[Janitor From Mars]

Sept 30, 2009 20:06:55 GMT -5 @taylorandborland said:

Question is, where do they go? No way they get a spot on Fox, and UPN doesn't exist anymore.

NBC aired Vince's XFL fiasco, didn't they? And they show Tributes to the Troops and SNMEs too.

Maybe...just maybe...

I think they need to move it to Fox or NBC.

I can't even watch it and that makes me mad. It didn't used to be that way. It used to be that even if you didn't have cable, you could still watch wrestling. Nowadays, this isn't the case due to a lack of MNTV.

[Yami Daimao]

Sept 30, 2009 20:40:49 GMT -5 Sajoa Moe said:

Sept 30, 2009 20:11:03 GMT -5 Dub H said:

I hope it means new theme

According to this week's spoilers, they do have a new theme and video.

It's probably just a mash-up of all the past Smackdown intros.

Hopefully I'm wrong though, I can't stand the current theme. Same goes for RAW.