List of Former WB Affiliates

List Of Former WB Affiliates

This is a list of stations which were affiliated with The WB Television Network in the United States at the time of the network's closure. Note that all WB O&O's were through Tribune's stake in the network. The WB shut down September 17, 2006. Former affiliates of The WB became affiliates of The CW, My Network TV, or revert to independent status. Some WB affiliates dropped WB programming on September 5, 2006 in favor of MyNetworkTV.

See also: Owned-and-operated television stations in the United States

As previously mentioned, from January 1995 to September 2006, Tribune Broadcasting was a partner in The WB Television Network, along with the Warner Bros. division of Time Warner. Tribune held an initial 12.5 percent ownership in the network at its launch, and later increased its stake to 22 percent; most of Tribune's television properties were WB owned and operated stations. On January 24, 2006, the WB announced that it would merge with the CBS-owned United Paramount Network to form a new programming service called the CW. All but three of Tribune's WB stations joined the CW on September 18, 2006, through ten-year agreements. Tribune does not have an ownership interest in the CW, turning most of its former WB O&O's into affiliates of the network. In late March 2008 Tribune announced that San Diego affiliate KSWB-TV would switch its network affiliation to Fox in August of that year. The future status of the CW affiliation in San Diego remained unclear until early July when the network named the soon-to-be-displaced Fox affiliate, Tijuana-licensed XETV, as its new affiliate.

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