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16 unusual facts about The WB


Chadam

Chadam is an animated web series by artist Alex Pardee based on characters he created for a number of The Used's album artwork and distributed by The WB and Eye Suck Ink.

EXXV-TV

MyNetworkTV was a response to The WB and UPN merging their operations in order to form a new network, The CW.

KARK-TV

KWBF (the future KARZ) instead aired the series after The WB's Friday night schedule.

KJBO-LP

Beginning in September 2006, KJBO became the Wichita Falls' affiliate of MyNetworkTV when UPN and The WB ceased operations and formed The CW.

KMEG

It also aired selected UPN programming out-of-pattern until the network merged with The WB (carried locally on KTIV-DT2 and cable television) to form The CW in 2006.

KMTF

After their affiliation agreement with Pax TV expired in 2005, they became an affiliate of The WB, as part of The WB 100+ Station Group.

KWWT

former affiliations = Pax TV (2001-2005)
The WB (2005-2006)
Tr3́s (2009-2012)
RTV (2009-2013)
Promiseland (2010)
Video Zona (2010-2011)
Mexicanal (2011-2012)
The CW

Maureen Flannigan

Flannigan had a recurring role on The WB series 7th Heaven as Shana Sullivan, the girlfriend of Matt Camden.

Megyn Price

Megyn Price (born March 24, 1971) is an American actress, best known for her roles on television as Claudia Finnerty in the The WB sitcom Grounded for Life (2001—2005), and Audrey Bingham on the CBS sitcom Rules of Engagement (2007—2013).

Multichannel television sound

FOX was the last network to join around 1990, with the four networks having their entire prime-time schedules in stereo by late 1994 (The WB and UPN, launched the following season with their entire line-ups in stereo).

Show You Love

The song was featured at the end of an episode of The WB television series Summerland, as well as in an episode of the UPN series Kevin Hill.

TWTV7

El Paso, Texas, where it a regional access channel and the market's UPN affiliate (and for a time also carried WB programming).

WCSH

After then-WB affiliate WPXT shut down its news department in fall 2002, WCSH and WLBZ entered into a news share agreement with that station, resulting in a nightly prime time newscast.

WMYA-TV

WFBC became a WB affiliate on September 6, 1998 and changed its call letters to WBSC in 2000 to reflect its status as the only full-time WB affiliate serving a South Carolina-based market.

former affiliations = CBS (primary, 1953-1956; secondary, 1956-1979)
ABC (secondary, 1953-1956; primary, 1956-1979; satellite of WLOS, 1991-1995)
Fox (1986-1988)
Independent (1979-1986, 1988-1989, 1995-1999)
The WB (1999-2006), TheCoolTV

WUTB

In January 1998, WNUV dropped its affiliation with UPN in favor of joining The WB; this resulted in Chris-Craft Industries (which at the time had jointly owned UPN, along with Viacom) buying channel 24, and effectively made it a UPN owned-and-operated station.


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Amy Sherman-Palladino

Sherman-Palladino is best known as the creator and executive producer of Gilmore Girls, an hour-long television dramedy that aired initially on The WB network, and concluded on its successor network, The CW.

Busty Heart

Busty Heart has done numerous TV shows, including Fox-TV's That's Just Wrong, The WB's Steve Harvey-hosted Steve Harvey's Big Time Challenge season finale, Endemol TV's Private Parts on Channel 5 in England, truTV's World's Dumbest, Bravo TV's Outrageous and Contagious Viral Videos, Fuji TV Tokyo Japan "2006 Bakademy Awards", E!'s Talk Soup, and 2007 Spike TV MANswers.

Eric Kripke

He later developed and wrote for The WB's 2003 television series Tarzan, which was cancelled after eight episodes, and followed this by writing the 2005 film Boogeyman.

Hope Partlow

Prior to the release of her album, her song, "Whatever Comes Our Way", was the theme to the The WB comedy Living With Fran, starring Fran Drescher.

Jason Katims

He has also worked on Relativity, which he created and wrote for; Roswell, which he developed, produced and wrote for; Boston Public, which he co-wrote; Pepper Dennis, a short-lived dramedy starring Rebecca Romijn on The WB; the 1996 movie The Pallbearer, starring David Schwimmer and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Jason Weaver

He is best known for his roles as Jerome Turrell on the short-lived ABC sitcom Thea from 1993-1994, the pre-teenaged Michael Jackson on the 1992 ABC miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream, and as the middle child, Marcus Henderson on the The WB sitcom Smart Guy.

K26KJ

Other television station in the 60-69 channels is the full power once The WB-affiliate KKWB (and then TeleFutura-affiliate, now UniMás-affiliate KTFN) that is broadcast in channel 65.

KAKW-DT

The station first signed on the air on May 31, 1996 as a primary affiliate of UPN and a secondary affiliate of The WB for the Waco/Killeen/Temple market; the station was originally owned by Communications Corporation of America, along with Waco-based Fox affiliate KWKT (channel 22) and the station's Bryan-based satellite KYLE (channel 48).

Kerr Smith

Smith began acting with roles on As the World Turns as Teddy Hughes from 1996 to 1997, the films Final Destination (2000) and a cameo in The Broken Hearts Club (2000), written and directed by Dawson's Creek writer Greg Berlanti and as a guest star in The WB's hit show Charmed as Agent Kyle Brody- a love interest for the fourth sister, Paige.

KHTV-CD

That station became KHWB, then KHCW, and is now known as KIAH and became affiliated with The WB (now The CW) in 1999.

KPBN-LP

In 1995, WTVK served as Baton Rouge's first WB affiliate with a secondary affiliation with America One, yet the station failed to secure a spot on Baton Rouge's cable lineup and had a broadcast range of only six miles.

KXTU-LD

The station signed on in 1999 as an affiliate of UPN, but when that network left the air on September 17, 2006, it switched to The CW, which was created by the merger of The WB (which had been available in the market by way of Denver's KWGN-TV) and UPN.

Louis Vanaria

With his singing career put on hold, he relocated to Los Angeles after landing a series regular role in a WB show, Kirk, in 1995.

Mark O'Keefe

The show, starring Judge Reinhold, was on The WB in the summer of 2003, but only 5 episodes aired before it was cancelled.

Scott Fellows

He is the creator and executive producer of Nickelodeon's Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, The WB's Johnny Test, and for Nickelodeon's hit Kids-Choice-Award-winning TV series Big Time Rush.

Tracy Vilar

She is best known for her roles as Girl #1 in 1994's Fresh, whose first movie debut, Shirley in the film Sunset Park, Sophia Ortiz on The WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show during its 1996-97 season, and Angela de la Cruz on the television show, Saved.

WFXU

On April 1, 2005, WFXU and WTLF switched to The WB, via The WB 100+; UPN promptly signed with WCTV, which launched a new subchannel to carry the network.

WNCT-DT2

On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced the two networks would end broadcasting and merge.

WRLH-DT2

This channel's origins began on January 24, 2006 when UPN and The WB announced that the networks would cease broadcasting and merge.