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unusual facts about The WB Television Network



Aaron Ashmore

He was cast as Jimmy Olsen, first love interest of Chloe Sullivan, for the sixth season of Smallville on the WB television network and continued to play him into its eighth season.

DJ Reid Speed

In 2003, Reid was chosen to play her blend of drum & bass on Jamie Kennedy's show, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment on the WB Television Network.

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.

In2TV

What remains of In2TV's content was moved over to online platforms bearing the brands of the now-defunct The WB Television Network and Kids' WB.

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.

Josh Henderson

Henderson competed on the second season of the WB reality show Popstars, where he won a spot in the group Scene 23, which disbanded due to their record company folding.

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).

KARK-TV

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

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.

KPWB

KMAX-TV, a television station (channel 31) licensed to Sacramento, California, United States, which used the call sign KPWB-TV while affiliated with The WB Television Network from 1995 to 1998.

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).

From 2001 to 2005, Price starred as Claudia Finnerty in The WB Television Network comedy series Grounded for Life opposite Donal Logue.

Mia Sara

Her television roles have included playing Annie Knox in the science fiction series Time Trax (1993–94) and Dr. Harleen Quinzel in the short-lived WB Network superhero show Birds of Prey (2002).

OK Sweetheart

"Home" featured on The CW's 2011 season finale of 90210, WB's One Tree Hill (2011), ABC's Revenge (2012), and Around the World for Free (2011), Nissan Versa Commercial (2011), Gas South Commercials (2011, 2012, 2013)

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.

The Way You Look Tonight

It is also sung by Allison Munn in the series finale of the WB sitcom What I Like About You and was used in the Friends episode "The One With Unagi." The song was also performed by the band MouseRat on the "Parks and Recreation" episode "Galentine's Day", wherein Andy Dwyer dedicated it to April Ludgate.

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.

WNLO

On April 20, 2006, WGRZ started producing a half-hour prime time newscast for WB (now MyNetworkTV) affiliate WNYO-TV (WNYO briefly had its own News Central-based newscast from 2005 to 2006).

WUPL

Before then, WUPL was one of two network-owned stations in New Orleans at the time (then-WB affiliate WNOL-TV, owned by The WB's part-owner, the Tribune Company, was the other).

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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Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

In 2004 a new version of Dark Shadows was produced for the WB television network.