Programming
WVTV's current schedule consists of all The CW programming airing in pattern, as the station currently carries no sports programming. During the morning the station runs some paid religious programming and The 700 Club, a double run of The Cosby Show, followed by second runs of The Steve Wilkos Show, Jerry Springer, and Maury, then The CW Daytime lineup, which features Dr. Drew's Lifechangers. The station's early-evening lineup consists of two episodes of Excused, then How I Met Your Mother and 30 Rock, which both also air after CW primetime, then two episodes of Two and a Half Men.
After The CW's primetime lineup, and the afformentioned sitcoms above, The Office, Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond and The New Adventures of Old Christine are all double-ran into late night, with Entertainment Studios programming and Comics Unleashed airing later in the night to complete the station's broadcast day.
Varied sitcoms air through the weekends, along with several movies throughout Saturday and Sunday and Sinclair's Ring of Honor Wrestling promotion, along with a new locally produced horror film presentation with local continuity from "Makovan", Dead of Night Theater, on early Sunday mornings. The station carries the minimum amount of educational and informational children's programming, as the Toonzai lineup features one hour of E/I shows, and the station airs various syndicated E/I programming weekday mornings at 7 a.m.
Because of non-pre-emptable coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics on WTMJ, WVTV aired two Green Bay Packers preseason games against the San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos on August 16 & 22, respectively, a role previously taken by Ion Television station WPXE (channel 55) in the 2004 pre-season.
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