The title might be confusing but instead of creating a network, what would you do with a network that already exists? I will give you an example. Take the ION channel. Now the channel isnt really a channel because they show the same shows with the same episodes for seemingly forever. If you could take over ION what would you do? What changes would you make? What would your schedule look like?

You could do this with all the channels but for me I would like to create programming for some of the channels that to me are having trouble. Channels like My Network TV, ION. For me here in CT., even some of the sports stations like MSG and NESN dont really have programming outside of there sports teams coverage.

So, hopefully this will be a lot of fun. I hope I get responses because I think we have good people on this board with good ideas.

For ex., it seems like ION shows the same shows with the same episodes. What I would do? How about showing Mama's Family, Growing Pains, The Wonder Years, The Odd Couple on ION? Just change the flavor of the channel. Also get some new movies to show for a change.

I like to think that channels should be changed because there are some channels that are hardly worth watching. ION, My Network TV, we pay for cable service however much we pay for it and we get those types of channels with hardly anything on them.

Ion- I would add a daytime block consisting of old

7-9 qubo - kids block
10:00 the waltons
11:00 family
12:00-1:00 search for tomorrow
1:00 as the world turns
2:00 another world
3:00 the guiding light
4:00-5:00 the edge of night
5:00 real tv
5:30 love connection
6:00 the dating game
6:30 the newlywed game
7:00 supermarket sweep
7:30 candid camera
8:00 medium
9:00 crossing jordan
10:00 criminal minds
11:00 criminal minds
12:00 diagnosis murder
1:00 burke's law (90s)

Hallmark
6:00 simon and simon
7:00 murder, she wrote
8:00 eight is enough
9:00 touched by an angel
10:00 promised land
11:00 dr quinn
12:00 movie
2:00-3:00 I love lucy
3:00-4:00 happy days
4:00-5:00 laverne and shirley
5:00-6:00 who's the boss?
6:00-7:00 mash
7:00-8:00 designing women
8:00-9:00 golden girls
9:00 movie
11:00-12:00 cheers
12:00-1:00 frasier
1:00-2:00 it's a living
2:00 movie
4:00 movie

Good job BLT!! Im in the process of doing my own schedules for the channels that exist.

Hmm, great thread!

ABC Family
6:00am - Full House
6:30am - Full House
7:00am - Family Matters
7:30am - Family Matters
8:00am - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
8:30am - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
9:00am - Smart Guy
9:30am - Smart Guy
10:00am - 8 Simple Rules
10:30am - 8 Simple Rules
11:00am - Grounded for Life
11:30am - Grounded for Life
12:00pm - What I Like About You
12:30pm - What I Like About You
1:00pm - That '70s Show
1:30pm - That '70s Show
2:00pm - Saved by the Bell
2:30pm - Saved by the Bell
3:00pm - Boy Meets World
3:30pm - Boy Meets World
4:00pm - Everwood
5:00pm - Everwood
6:00pm - 7th Heaven
7:00pm - 7th Heaven

- If TBS is gonna shove SBTB to weekends, I rather have it on another station. Everwood and 7th Heaven need to be back on television, and Boy Meets World needs better time slots. Ship The 700 Club into late night.

Boomerang
6:00 smurfs
6:30 snorks
7:00 a.m. mayhem (h-b library)
9:00 a pup named scooby-doo
9:30 tom and jerry kids
10:00 flintstone kids
10:30 back to bedrock (sat a.m. flintstones & pebbles and bamm-bamm)
11:00 tom and jerry
12:00 acme hour (wb & mgm cartoons)
1:00 new scooby-doo movies
2:00 woody woodpecker
2:30 jetsons
3:00 flintstones
3:30 static shock
4:00 batman t.a.s
4:30 batman beyond
5:00 justice league
5:30 superman t.a.s.
6:00 real adv. of jonny quest
6:30 tiny toon adventures
7:00 animaniacs
7:30 dexter's laboratory
8:00 johnny bravo
8:30 bugs and daffy
10:00 scooby-doo
10:30 scooby-doo
11:00 flintstones
11:30 popeye
12:00 cartoon planet
12:30 toon heads
1:00 top cat
1:30 josie and the pussycats
2:00 wacky races
2:30 2 stupid dogs
3:00 swat kats
3:30 yogi's treasure hunt
4:00-6:00 bugs and daffy

Family Channel
6:00 mr belvedere
6:30 silver spoons
7:00 pee-wee's playhouse
7:30 punky brewster
8:00 california dreams
8:30 hogan family
9:00 8 simple rules...
9:30 soul man
10:00 700 club
11:00 7th heaven
12:00-1:00 full house
1:00-2:00 family matters
2:00-3:00 step by step
4:00-5:00 boy meets world
5:00-6:00 sabrina...
6:00-7:00 my wife and kids
8:00 america's funniest home videos
9:00 gilmore girls
10:00 smallville
11:00 chuck
12:00 700 club
1:00 facts of life
1:30 charles in charge

VERSUS instead of the ESPN route that NBC Sports has taken I would do away with all the racing, football, basketball, hockey, extreme sports( except for bull riding), poker and bring it back to its original hunting, shooting, fishing, and outdoors roots.
USA get rid of all of the Law & Order type shows and bring it back to its original roots.
SPIKE can all those cheesy reality shows and get rid of all those CSI type shows (but I'd still keep Deadliest Warrior IMPACT Wrestling and Alternate History) and really make it a network for men.

ABC Family Fall 2011

6:00am Diff'rent Strokes
6:30 Diff'rent Strokes
7:00 Facts of Life
7:30 Facts of Life
8:00 Gimme a Break!
8:30 The Hogan Family
9:00 Family Ties
9:30 Family Ties
10:00 Who's The Boss?
10:30 Who's The Boss?
11:00 Growing Pains
11:30 Growing Pains
12:00pm Saved By The Bell
12:30 California Dreams
1:00 Full House
1:30 Full House
2:00 Family Matters
2:30 Family Matters
3:00 Step By Step
3:30 Sister, Sister
4:00 Boy Meets World
4:30 Boy Meets World
5:00 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
5:30 What I Like About You
6:00 Reba
6:30 8 Simple Rules
7:00 Everwood
8:00 Gilmore Girls
9:00/10:00 ABC Family Original Programming Block
11:00 Friends
11:30 Friends
12:00am Friends
12:30 Roseanne
1:00 Roseanne
1:30 Roseanne
2:00 Everwood (encore)
3:00 Gilmore Girls (encore)
4:00/5:00 ABC Family Original Programming Block (encore)

Ion- I would add a daytime block consisting of old

7-9 qubo - kids block
10:00 the waltons
11:00 family
12:00-1:00 search for tomorrow
1:00 as the world turns
2:00 another world
3:00 the guiding light
4:00-5:00 the edge of night
5:00 real tv
5:30 love connection
6:00 the dating game
6:30 the newlywed game
7:00 supermarket sweep
7:30 candid camera
8:00 medium
9:00 crossing jordan
10:00 criminal minds
11:00 criminal minds
12:00 diagnosis murder
1:00 burke's law (90s)
I would definitely be watching your network all the time and big kudos to you for adding in the classic soap block.

Actually what I would do is put All My Children and One Life to Live back on ABC where it belongs and ship The Chew and The Revolution to ABC Family. That way it could save up on ABC Family programming(How many times can you burn through a series like 8 Simple Rules, My Wife and Kids etc.?)

Actually what I would do is put All My Children and One Life to Live back on ABC where it belongs and ship The Chew and The Revolution to ABC Family. That way it could save up on ABC Family programming(How many times can you burn through a series like 8 Simple Rules, My Wife and Kids etc.?)
ABC is never going to bring back All My Children and One Life to Live. CBS cut two soaps and is now MAKING $100 million per year in daytime only vs. previously LOSING $25 million with their soaps. I'm sure soon enough ABC will be doing the same and laughing all the way to the bank.

AMC the first thing will be to return to the uncut commercial free format and instill a policy of showing no movies younger than ten years old. IFC go back to the original commercial free format and get rid of those caceled network TV shows but keep the original programing.

ABC is never going to bring back All My Children and One Life to Live. CBS cut two soaps and is now MAKING $100 million per year in daytime only vs. previously LOSING $25 million with their soaps. I'm sure soon enough ABC will be doing the same and laughing all the way to the bank.


Yankees, I didnt know that. I didnt know they were making that much money. Let me ask, though, ratings wise, is The Chew, The Talk doing better than All My Children and As the World Turns?

Yankees, I didnt know that. I didnt know they were making that much money. Let me ask, though, ratings wise, is The Chew, The Talk doing better than All My Children and As the World Turns?

Yes, the Chew has nearly doubled what "All My Children" was getting, and also costs a fraction of what AMC cost to produce each year.

The Talk is doing well, but isn't getting as many viewers as "ATWT" got.

ion:
7:00am welcome back ,kOTtoer
7:30am perfect strangers
8:00am mamas family
8:30am happy days
9:00am THE WONDER YEARS
9:30AM FAMILY TIES
10:00AM AMEN
10;30AM ALICE
11:00AM MARY TALROY MOORE
11:30AM DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
12;00PM GERGEO LOPEZ
12:30P FAAMILY MATTERS
1:00PM GHOST WISPER
2:00PPM MONK
3:00PM HANGING WITH MR COOPER
3:30PM HANGING WITH MR COOPER
4:00PM QUANTMA LEAP
5:00PMEARLY EDIITON
6:00PM NSIC
7:00PM NSIC LOSEANGLES
8:00PM CIMINAL MINDS
9:00PM FLASH POINT
10:00PM PSYCH
11:00PM CSI
12:00AM TOUCH BY ANANGLE
1:00AMPROMISE LAND


SPIKE TV
7:0AM ARE YOU SMARTEDTHEN AFIFTH GARDEr?
7:30AM ARE YOU SMARTED THEN A FIFTH GRAEr?
8;00AM CSI
9;00AM CSI NY
10:00AM CIS MIMIA
11:00AM CIRMANL MINDS
12:00PM KING OF QUEENS
12:30PM KING OF QUEENS
1:00 REPEO GAMES
1:30PM REPEO GAMES
2;00PM FLIP MEN
2:30PM FLIP MEN
3;00PM ACUTION HUNTES
3:30PM ACUTION HUNTERS
4:00PM smallville
5:00PM super nartual
6:00PM UNSLOVED MYSTIERS
7:00PM nsic
8:00pm nsic loseangles
9;00PM Deadlist WARRIOR
10:00PM bones
11:00PM JUDGE ROSs AMERICACOURT
11:30PM JUDGE ROSs AMERICA COURT

I'm surprised that no one has tackled the easiest targets which would be Antenna TV and Me-TV. Every day on the main board it seems that someone here will make a few programming suggestions regarding how to improve these 2 fine channels which really don't need much improvement. Now I was thinking that since between the two of them, they are showing, or are carrying the rights to show, nearly every classic sitcom from the 50s and 60s, what if they came together and merged into one (mainly sitcom-related) channel? Can you imagine how great that would look and how popular it would be? You may have your own ideas about how to do this. I simply took both of their fall 2012 schedules and for each block of the day, I picked a group from each network. The results are formed to create a new network which I will simply call


ANTENNA4ME-TV


WEEKDAYS

5:00 am The Honeymooners
5:30 am Make Room for Daddy
6:00 am The Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 am Petticoat Junction
7:00 am My Three Sons
7:30 am The Donna Reed Show
8:00 am That Girl
8:30 am I Love Lucy
9:00 am Daniel Boone
10:00 am Perry Mason
11:00AM Adam-12
11:30AM Adam-12
12:00PM Dragnet
12:30PM Dragnet
1:00 pm Gunsmoke
2:00PM Father Knows Best
2:30PM Father Knows Best
3:00PM Dennis the Menace
3:30PM Dennis the Menace
4:00PM Leave it to Beaver
4:30PM Leave it to Beaver
5:00PM The Partridge Family
5:30PM The Partridge Family
6:00PM All in the Family
6:30PM All in the Family
7:00 pm M*A*S*H
7:30 pm M*A*S*H
8:00PM Maude
8:30PM Maude
9:00 pm The Mary Tyler Moore Show
9:30 pm The Dick Van Dyke Show
10:00 pm Cheers
10:30 pm The Bob Newhart Show
11:00PM Three's Company
11:30PM Three's Company
12:00AM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
12:30AM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1:00AM The Burns and Allen Show
1:30AM The Burns and Allen Show
2:00AM The Jack Benny Program
2:30AM The Jack Benny Program

Saturdays

1:00PM The Three Stooges
1:30PM The Three Stooges
2:00PM Adam-12
2:30PM Adam-12
3:00PM Dragnet
3:30PM Dragnet
4:00PM The Monkees
4:30PM The Monkees
5:00PM The Partridge Family
5:30PM The Partridge Family
6:00PM The Flying Nun
6:30PM The Flying Nun
7:00PM Gidget
7:30PM Gidget
8:00 pm Lost In Space
9:00 pm Star Trek
10:00PM It Takes a Thief
11:00PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
12:00AM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
12:30AM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1:00 am Get Smart
1:30 am Get Smart
2:00 am Car 54, Where Are You?
2:30 am Car 54, Where Are You?
3:00 am Dobie Gillis
3:30 am Dobie Gillis


Sundays

5:00 am The Honeymooners
5:30 am The Phil Silvers Show
6:00 am The Phil Silvers Show
6:30 am Laurel & Hardy

11:00 am The Brady Bunch
11:30 am The Brady Bunch
12:00 pm The Brady Bunch
12:30 pm The Brady Bunch
1:00 pm MeTV Loves Lucy
3:00PM Dragnet
3:30PM Dragnet
4:00PM The Monkees
4:30PM The Monkees
5:00PM The Partridge Family
5:30PM The Partridge Family
6:00PM The Flying Nun
6:30PM The Flying Nun
7:00PM Gidget
7:30PM Gidget
8:00PM Barney Miller
8:30PM Barney Miller
9:00PM WKRP in Cincinnati
9:30PM WKRP in Cincinnati
10:00PM WKRP in Cincinnati
10:30PM WKRP in Cincinnati
11:00PM Soap
11:30PM Soap
12:00AM Benson
12:30AM Benson
1:00AM All in the Family
1:30AM All in the Family
2:00AM Maude
2:30AM Maude
3:00AM Good Times
3:30AM Good Times
4:00AM Sanford and Son
4:30AM Sanford and Son


I don't know if you can get much better than this but you can certainly try!

Antenna TV (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showpost.php?p=4716165&postcount=11)

MeTV (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?p=4713730#post4713730)

Next week I'll try to create what I think a Canadian version for both stations might look like, not that it will help bring them here in real life. I'm still praying heavily!

Yes, the Chew has nearly doubled what "All My Children" was getting, and also costs a fraction of what AMC cost to produce each year.

The Talk is doing well, but isn't getting as many viewers as "ATWT" got.

Sorry. I need to clarify my original post: AMC was doing nearly DOUBLE the numbers that The Chew is doing now. In the coveted 18-49 demographic The Chew has seen double digit losses over what AMC did a year before.

and The Revolution did even worse in the old OLTL timeslot.