inksmudgedhands t1_iui5jh1 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:50 PM

It used to have such a cult following thanks to Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries and Arrowverse. You would go to Comic Con, heck, you would go any of the cons, and there would be CW fans everywhere. Supernatural, alone, was up there with MCU in terms of con popularity. But that's all gone now. It's amazing how quickly it became a husk.

ghostgnome t1_iui7nby wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:04 PM

That's what happens when your channel viewer's age is now 58. TV is dying before our eyes.

Prax150 t1_iuiq7h5 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 5:09 PM

What's annoying is that a big part of it is messaging and the hesitance if not straight up refusal on the part of legacy media companies to adapt. Access to broadcast TV could be simple, free and widespread with minimal effort. Already they make digital antennae you stick to a window that give you access to most broadcast networks in your area. But people just don't know about that, and many don't even know the distinction between broadcast and cable. But why not take it a step further and just make all broadcast TV free and easily accessible, officially, on the internet?

I'm guessing the answer is carriage fees from cable companies but eventually the math on that is going to change as people continue cutting the cord and then these networks are going to lament the missed opportunity for transferring that audience to digital platforms. We should have been able to watch all these channels for free years ago, I think a lot of people would have even gotten used to commercials (Netflix IMO is about to prove that), but people already don't care enough.

jemull t1_iuj6z7b wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:00 PM

I live 7 miles from Downtown in a major metropolitan area and I use a digital antenna. I get ~30 channels.

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Lovat69 t1_iujmidi wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:45 PM

>We should have been able to watch all these channels for free years ago,

We used to. In the aughts I could watch nbc, abc, cbs, and probably wb/cw shows online a couple of days after it aired on the channel websites. Now you can't do that without a cable key for some reason. You are right it makes no sense.

badedum t1_iuigmc1 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:05 PM

My assumption is it's all millenials/younger using their parents' cable subscription

envynav t1_iuimb34 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:43 PM

That's not how viewership ratings work. They ask people of different demographics to track what they watch, then they estimate the total viewership based on the smaller sample size. Even if it's the parents' cable subscription, the younger people being tracked would still count towards the younger demographics.

access_secure t1_iuiqb43 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 5:10 PM

So the average age of Riverdale, Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries and Arrowverse viewers was 58?

DomDiDiDomDiDiDou t1_iuj0l4h wrote on October 31, 2022 at 6:17 PM

Totally. Go to their sub, they talk more about knitting than the shows!

Gilgie t1_iuj3jii wrote on October 31, 2022 at 6:37 PM

Everyone has back problems and hip replacements.

chromeshiel t1_iujbcap wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:29 PM

No, people have just moved on from TV. The real audience for these shows is online through Netflix or piracy.

Ragnar_Dragonfyre t1_iuj3qi8 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 6:38 PM

TV is dying and it’s being replaced by TikTok…

I’m not looking forward to a future where scripted shows die out and are replaced by badly scripted “reality reels” that pretend to be real.

OK_Soda t1_iuj6r0a wrote on October 31, 2022 at 6:58 PM

I mostly only watch TV while eating a meal and I am not looking forward to sitting down to eat and queuing up 91 27-second tiktoks to fill my dinner hour.

ZsaFreigh t1_iuk54v6 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 11:04 PM

It happened once before with Reality TV, but Scripted TV became much better for it.

dadvader t1_iuje6i4 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 7:48 PM

Well that's why we need Marvel stuff. Those are actually keeping that particular crowd happy. Easy watch. Full of popcorn action and haha quirky quip.

mysidian t1_iujztui wrote on October 31, 2022 at 10:22 PM

Didn't the CW stop their Netflix deal where everyone outside the US got their shows a day later? I wonder why they did that, all their shows seemed reasonably popular on Netflix.

grimace24 t1_iuhv26r wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:33 PM

>Makes sense since The CW is dead.

You're not wrong. Nexstar looking to free slots to sell programming space to highest bidders or buy low effort programming.

TheBlackSwarm t1_iui2xeg wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:31 PM

Walker and it’s spin off are the only shows that stand a chance because it fits in with the Nextstar target audience and Jared Padalecki has a good relationship with the network.

lightsongtheold t1_iuicreh wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:39 PM

Walker: Independence is done. Only two shows with a shot of survival are Walker and All American (top shows in viewership and demo) and even their chances are slim.

It will be reality, reruns, cheap imports, and maybe some right wing news. That is the new CW.

shyinwonderland t1_iujpi1b wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:05 PM

It’s a bit sad, I had loved the CW for so long. With shows it brought up from WB and UPN9 merge like One Tree Hill and Supernatural, to Gossip Girl, izombie, the arrowverse, Reign, the 100, crazy ex girlfriend…the more I think about it there were alot to shows I loved on there. It was a very YA network and came at a time when I was fitting into that genre.

MulciberTenebras t1_iuhy8b9 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:57 PM

And HBOMax will be next, so no point bringing over there for a fourth season.

‘Stargirl’ Ending With Season 3 on The CW

JVortex888 t1_iuhtkkz wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:21 PM