https://tvnewscheck.com/business/article/weigel-broadcasting-to-launch-west-network/

whats next a cop channel

whats next a cop channel

It sounds like you’re saying that sarcastically but that actually sounds logical.

The Western channel Grit is the second-most popular subchannel after MeTV, so it makes sense to broadcast in that genre.

This might reduce the Western bloc on MeTV a bit, as they wouldn't be so eager to air Western v. Western.

does this mean all the westerns is going leave me tv to go to the new West Channel

It's unknown atm, but it'll most likely be most, but not all of them.
They'll mostly keep Gunsmoke and Bonanza.

This continues the streak of Weigel broadcasting launching a new channel every year:

2021 - MeTV Plus
2022 - Story Television
2023 - Catchy Comedy
2024 - MeTV Toons
2025 - WEST

I'm glad they're moving the Westerns out of MeTV main and plus channels. Although I expect Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and The Rifleman to stay. As far as I can remember since the launch of MeTV going national like 15 years ago, those three shows have always been on air at those timeslots. It's never going away.

I hope they bring back more action/drama shows. We really need a shakeup in the afternoon lineup and hopefully it happens. It was a miracle Twilight Zone airs earlier at 11pm and they put Dragnet on at 12:35am as of June 2025. Just the slightest change in the weekday/night lineup is like a breath of fresh air.

If every western gets shifted into the new west channel then MeTV will look very different this September. Don’t get me wrong

Why would METV remove westerns? METV is the mothership, if something works for that station it will stay in the rotation. Assuming the westerns aired, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Riflemen, and Wagon Train maintain their numbers I don't think a change will be made, WEST just won't program those titles during the afternoon block. Catchy Comedy shows ALL in the Family, Dick Van Dyke, MASH and several others that appear on METV, I don't think it will be an issue. METV has a more extensive line-up of westerns on Saturday, maybe Weigel may think about tinkering with that at some point in the future.

I’d be glad for the westerns to go although some will probably stay. I just hope they add more sitcoms.

I’d be glad for the westerns to go although some will probably stay. I just hope they add more sitcoms.

Groan.. I think it is a bad idea for a new network. There are already two western diginets that show both movies and shows. On top of that, METV, MeTV+ and H&I all show 4 or more hours of the same Western shows everyday. This is not even touching on PlutoTV that has entire channels dedicated to the above-mentioned Western shows.

whats next a cop channel

doesnt pluto have crime drama (tv series) channels ?...was looking at internet

and seem many famous movie stars were in western tv series and some of the


series only lasted one or two yrs ....but the short live series had huge ,huge



cast


of famous guest stars and stars taht became super famous.maybe hundreds and hundreds of western series on


internet western list..what westerns would u love to see again ?? .....it




would be great




to see many short live (four yrs or less...many lasted long time.......but seems its always the same gunsmoke episodes on internet. maybe a schedule of short live westerns on a weekend.. or maybe a schedule of short live




western tv series on weekend (mornings, nites,afternoons or late night) or weekday afternoons or mornings,nites or late night.

These days when it comes to anything westerns no matter if they are movies or shows westerns seem to have gone extinct as dinosaurs and with channels such as Grit and Heroes And Icons and METV as well as FETV and INSP airing westerns it has become hard to find an all westerns channel besides Grit. What I think Weigel is doing is VERY smart and I think they will do with West is possibly add some westerns that haven't been seen on TV in years such as Sky King Hopalong Cassidy and add shows like The Big Valley and perhaps add John Wayne movies like True Grit Shane and Hondo and if West is successful they will also add 80's westerns like The Young Riders that originally aired on ABC in 1989 and add classic 80s/90's western movies as well. I think West will take some of the westerns that METV has and possibly make Grit go belly up and just like with the other Weigel owned networks it will also be added to the Frindly TV app. Because as I mentioned western channels seem to be scarce and West will finally fit the bill of every westerns fan

MeTV needs to revise their schedule for Fall 2025. Remove the Western shows and add more classic comedies along with new 70s cop dramas.
My Fall lineup
7am Toon in With Me
8am Leave It To Beaver
9am Brady Bunch
9:30 My Three Sons
10am Gilligan's Island
10:30 Green Acres
11am Beverly Hillbillies
11:30 Petticoat Junction
12pm The Waltons
1pm Emergency!
2pm Matlock
3pm In the Heat of the Night
4pm Barnaby Jones
5pm The Love Boat
6pm All in the Family
7pm M*A*S*H
8pm The Andy Griffith Show
8:30 Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.
9pm The Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Hogan's Heroes
10pm Perry Mason
11pm Alfred Hitchcock Presents
12am Mission: Impossible
1am Mod Squad
2am The Rookies
3am Streets of San Francisco
4am Twilight Zone
4:30 The Rifleman
5am Dragnet
6am Adam-12

MeTV needs to revise their schedule for Fall 2025. Remove the Western shows and add more classic comedies along with new 70s cop dramas.
My Fall lineup
7am Toon in With Me
8am Leave It To Beaver
9am Brady Bunch
9:30 My Three Sons
10am Gilligan's Island
10:30 Green Acres
11am Beverly Hillbillies
11:30 Petticoat Junction
12pm The Waltons
1pm Emergency!
2pm Matlock
3pm In the Heat of the Night
4pm Barnaby Jones
5pm The Love Boat
6pm All in the Family
7pm M*A*S*H
8pm The Andy Griffith Show
8:30 Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.
9pm The Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Hogan's Heroes
10pm Perry Mason
11pm Alfred Hitchcock Presents
12am Mission: Impossible
1am Mod Squad
2am The Rookies
3am Streets of San Francisco
4am Twilight Zone
4:30 The Rifleman
5am Dragnet
6am Adam-12
add TJ.Hooker

I'm sure the channel was created because Westerns are still popular for cable television. We only have INSP and GRIT for all Western channels. I think Weigel has the upper hand since they have the rights to a lot of rare western shows such as Sugarfoot and Iron Horse. While the other two channels seem to only air the same ones we've already seen.

It's just like with MeTV Toons. If it weren't for MeTV Toons, Boomerang would have been stuck airing the new cartoons when it's suppose to be a retro cartoon channel. Thanks to MeTV as a competitor, Boomerang finally reverted back to its original roots. It's good to have competition.

add TJ.Hooker

I love TJ Hooker. Definitely can eliminate an hour of comedy. Squeeze in TJ Hooker after Barnaby Jones.

MeTV needs to revise their schedule for Fall 2025. Remove the Western shows and add more classic comedies along with new 70s cop dramas.
My Fall lineup
7am Toon in With Me
8am Leave It To Beaver
9am Brady Bunch
9:30 My Three Sons
10am Gilligan's Island
10:30 Green Acres
11am Beverly Hillbillies
11:30 Petticoat Junction
12pm The Waltons
1pm Emergency!
2pm Matlock
3pm In the Heat of the Night
4pm Barnaby Jones
5pm The Love Boat
6pm All in the Family
7pm M*A*S*H
8pm The Andy Griffith Show
8:30 Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.
9pm The Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 Hogan's Heroes
10pm Perry Mason
11pm Alfred Hitchcock Presents
12am Mission: Impossible
1am Mod Squad
2am The Rookies
3am Streets of San Francisco
4am Twilight Zone
4:30 The Rifleman
5am Dragnet
6am Adam-12


add kojak (great new york city area scenes and great stories/great guest stars),add matt houston (good scenery)...add police woman..(great cast /one tv channel website had article about pepper/police woman and there were 500 or many more.....likes for article......seldom see that many likes for any show).stories,guest stars)..add.... the streets of san francisco..great guest stars,interesting stories.great karl malden.......

Like I mentioned before, GritTV's library (Rifleman, Zorro, The Lone Ranger, Lonesome Dove and etc) eclipses Weigel's old western TV show catalog. They will eventually have to show the same old Western movies that the two other Western theme channels are already showing.

I just think GritTV beat to them the punch and has already gained a loyal following.

colt 45 tv series......great western !!! also,lancer and iron horse (train).

the californians is great western series.

WEST has finally launched their official website: https://www.westtelevision.com/

Here's the list of future affiliates that will carry the network: https://www.westtelevision.com/future-west-stations

WEST has finally launched their official website: https://www.westtelevision.com/

Here's the list of future affiliates that will carry the network: https://www.westtelevision.com/future-west-stations

So far those are all Weigel stations that they already own. But they said they will have more to announce before the network launches.

Thanks for info !!!!

when WEST tv channel well came out in late fall?

hope western,etc movie and tv star......actor joel McCrea's tv western weekly

series with his son will be on west channel.

where is the schedule?

one website has info that this channel launch on sept 1st.

one website has info that this channel launch on sept 1st.

do you have a source?

fandom website has west channel launching sept 1st

fandom website has west debuting on sept 1st.scan tv and cant locate




channel.did



some me tv plus channels become west and some of the me tv plus channels


move to a different subchannel number in some cities ? another article has late

sept b4 west debuts.

soooo .....have the western tv series already been taken off of me tv plus





channel



? will they move to west channel ? me tv plus and west r own by same


company.guess the westerns r still on me tv channel..wonder if they will



leave ? any1



have complete list of western shows that will be on west ?

I've never gotten into TV Westerns, it's not my type of show. Guns and horses aren't my thing.

I've never gotten into TV Westerns, it's not my type of show. Guns and horses aren't my thing.

Same here. Not a fan.

I've never gotten into TV Westerns, it's not my type of show. Guns and horses aren't my thing.

I have always been a fan of movie Westerns starring actors such as John Wayne and Randolph Scott, but never cared for television Westerns. Television Westerns just can't compete with Rio Bravo, Hondo and Shane.

maybe they have a huge,huge film collections.....some b westerns and gene


autry,roy rogers movies.

sooooo many film studios made many,many westerns....some with less


known




stars,too...hope to see the mini series (how the west was won) and

series (legacy) and


tv mini series (the chisholms).

WEST stands for Western Episode Series TV. There are no movies from what I have read.

maybe they have a huge,huge film collections.....some b westerns and gene


autry,roy rogers movies.

sooooo many film studios made many,many westerns....some with less


known




stars,too...hope to see the mini series (how the west was won) and

series (legacy) and


tv mini series (the chisholms).

Back in July or August, was suprised to see three John Wayne 30's B-movies with the 3 Mesquiteers in primetime
on GritTV.

You are right that there should be a Happy Trails Theater for Gene, Roy, Hopalong Cassidy, and the other B Cowboys on one of the many Western networks.

WEST's launch date has been announced.
It will launch on September 29th.

WEST's launch date has been announced.
It will launch on September 29th.


https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/35418/west-western-channel-launch-gunsmoke/

WEST just released their programming lineup today:

The Waltons was alway one of my favorite westerns.

The Waltons was alway one of my favorite westerns.

Ditto

The Waltons was alway one of my favorite westerns.

I use to think it was a Western lol

Now I do like the Waltons. But it’s on at a terrible time. I’m usually out and about on Saturday afternoons. It would be much better at night.

thx 4 posting west (weigel tv compamy) schedule...soo tv series (trackdown-spinoff of wanted dead or alive western series with ellen corby (grandma walton actress) and the western tv series (the rebel )..will debut on heroes and icons (weigel tv station).sooo west tv channel.... new over the air using antenna/rabbit ears ..free digital subchannel will be seen in a big part of the usa.dish tv and another outlet,..tds ..too.wish it was on spectrum....aka charter cable system.

Is West also gonna be on Frindly TV when it debuts Monday? This sounds like a channel my dad would enjoy because he loves westerns

bump....not sure....havent heard about it being on frndly tv

Is West also gonna be on Frindly TV when it debuts Monday? This sounds like a channel my dad would enjoy because he loves westerns
It probably will be added sometime this week or the week after or before the end of the year.

It probably will be added sometime this week or the week after or before the end of the year.

It’s airing on FRNDLY right now; I’m watching it. LARAMIE is currently showing.

It’s airing on FRNDLY right now; I’m watching it. LARAMIE is currently showing.

The odd thing is that Frndly publicly announced it was adding MeTv Toons yet said nothing about West or at least I didn't see it.

I’m guessing it may have been more of a last-minute decision or negotiation, and thus FRNDLY may not have had much time afterwards to properly market it like they did MeTV Toons. They do have banner ads in the app and Guide now that are promoting its launch.

The odd thing is that Frndly publicly announced it was adding MeTv Toons yet said nothing about West or at least I didn't see it.

Mom found West on Frindly TV a few minutes ago and she glanced at it and she thought West is pretty nice and seems like a channel Dad would enjoy. The strange thing is I searched for West on Frindly TV this morning it wasn't featured in the channels. When did West get added to Frindly TV? Yesterday or just right now? Because Mom had never found West on there
Thanks for the info Zoneboy
Hawkee

This morning I saw WEST for the very first time on Frindly TV and I think it may have competition with the other channels that deal in westerns. WEST "full name Western Entertainment Television" is similar to Grit and Western Bound "an all westerns oriented channel created by INSP." From what I saw they carry The Virginian Bonanza and many other westerns but I learned from Dad that WEST carries John Wayne movies like Hondo True Grit and Shane. I think for the westerns fan WEST fits like a glove and maybe someday they will add shows like The Young Riders and Sky King and probably add some Roy Rogers shows too in the future

Just like there is now a channel that caters to only western dramas, I would love to see a retro network that aired primetime soaps. This would be my line-up to kick off the network;
7 & 8am Eight is Enough
9 &10 & 11am Beverly Hills, 90210
12 & 1pm Hotel
2 & 3pm Falcon Crest
4 & 5 & 6pm Dallas
7 & 8 & 9pm Knots Landing
10 & 11pm Dynasty
12 & 1am Melrose Place
2 & 2:30am Peyton Place

a soap channel should also have tv series-

bare essence

rituals

emerald point nas

the secrets of midland heights

kings crossing

sisters

berringers

edge of night


search for tomorrow

a newer soap channel just for serials would be awesome spinoff (models) would be nice to see again.seems title maybe was ..models,inc. with well known tv stars.