The WB 100+ Station Group (originally called The WeB from its developmental stages until March 1999) was a national programming service of
The WB
The WB Television Network (for Warner Bros., or the "Frog Network", for its former mascot, Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network launched on terrestrial television, broadcast television on January 11, 1995, as a joint venture be ...
—owned by the
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Warner Bros. or abbreviated as WB) is an American Film studio, film and entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank, Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, Califo ...
division of
Time Warner
Warner Media, LLC ( traded as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City, United States.
It was originally established in 1972 by ...
, the
Tribune Company
Tribune Media Company, also known as Tribune Company, was an American multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Through Tribune Broadcasting, Tribune Media was one of the largest television broadcasting companies, owning 39 ...
, and group founder and longtime WB network president
Jamie Kellner
Jamie Kellner is an American former television executive. He was chairman and chief executive officer of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a division of Time Warner which includes TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network. Kellner took over the post in 2001 ...
—intended primarily for
American television markets ranked #100 and above by
Nielsen Media Research
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estimates. Operating from September 21, 1998 to September 18, 2006, The WB 100+ comprised an
affiliate group that was initially made exclusively of individually branded
cable television
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channels serving areas that lacked availability for a locally based WB broadcast affiliate and supplied a nationalized subfeed consisting of WB network and syndicated programs; in the network's waning years, the WB 100+ group began maintaining primary affiliations on full-power and
low-power stations in certain markets serviced by the feed.
The WB 100+ Station Group was also essentially structured as a de facto national feed of The WB, and maintained a master schedule of
syndicated and
brokered programs for broadcast on all affiliates of the feed outside of time periods designated for The WB's prime time, daytime and Saturday morning programming. Programming and promotional services for The WB 100+ were housed at The WB's corporate headquarters in
Burbank,
California
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; engineering and
master control
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operations were based at the California Video Center in
Los Angeles
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.
History
Pre-launch
The history of The WB 100+ can be traced back to a charter affiliation agreement reached on December 3, 1993, between The WB and
Tribune Broadcasting
Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC was an American media company which operated as a subsidiary of Tribune Media, a media conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois. The group owned and operated television and radio stations throughout the United St ...
(whose corporate parent, the Tribune Company (later
Tribune Media
Tribune Media Company, also known as Tribune Company, was an American multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Through Tribune Broadcasting, Tribune Media was one of the largest television broadcasting companies, owning 39 ...
), held minority ownership in the network), which resulted in Tribune's
Chicago
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television flagship WGN-TV carrying The WB's prime time programming (the
Kids' WB
Kids' WB (stylized as Kids' WB!) was an American children's programming service and brand of The WB that aired on the network from September 9, 1995, to September 16, 2006. The block moved to The CW (a result of the merger of Time Warner's The W ...
block – which debuted in September 1995, eight months after The WB's launch – would air instead on
independent station WCIU-TV
WCIU-TV (channel 26) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, affiliated with The CW. It is the flagship television property of locally based Weigel Broadcasting, which has owned the station since its inception, and is siste ...
before moving to WGN-TV in September 2004).
Through that deal, WGN's national
superstation feed (later separately branded as
WGN America
WGN America was an American subscription television network that was owned by the Nexstar Media Group, and was the company's only wholly owned, national cable-originated television channel. The channel in its final form under the WGN branding ra ...
and operating as a conventional basic cable channel) would act as a default WB affiliate for select markets where the network would have difficulty securing an affiliation with a
broadcast television station
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at The WB's launch on January 11, 1995 (either due to the lack of available over-the-air stations or the absence of a secondary affiliation with an existing station within the market). This arrangement was conceived to give the network enough time to find affiliates in those "white areas" (a term referring to areas in which a national broadcaster does not have market clearance), allowing the WGN superstation feed to nationally distribute The WB's programming to a broader audience than would be possible without such an agreement in the interim.
Some cable providers also carried either
KTLA (for areas in the
Pacific Time Zone) or
WPIX
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(for areas in the
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Peru, and a small p ...
) depending on the location in addition to or in lieu of WGN's national feed.
Development and launch
Jamie Kellner
Jamie Kellner is an American former television executive. He was chairman and chief executive officer of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a division of Time Warner which includes TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network. Kellner took over the post in 2001 ...
– co-founder, and original president of The WB – conceived the concept of a cable-originated programming service that would serve smaller markets, originally titled The WeB, in June 1996; the network formally presented its concept for the service, which would function similarly to the reasoning behind the agreement with the WGN superstation feed, to cable providers on September 24 of that year. Kellner had previous experience in developing such a service; during his tenure as
Fox
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Twelve sp ...
's original network president from 1986 to 1993, Kellner developed a similar (but less localized) service,
Foxnet
Foxnet was an American cable television channel that was owned by the Fox Entertainment Group division of News Corporation. Serving as a national feed of the Fox Broadcasting Company (known simply as Fox), the service was intended for American t ...
, a cable channel owned by
News Corporation
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(the corporate parent of Fox at the time) that operated from June 1991 to September 2006, and was the first cable channel that designed to distribute a broadcast network's programming directly to cable providers in smaller markets where the network could not maintain an exclusive affiliation due to the limited number of available commercial television stations. After Russell Myerson (who would serve as the group's
executive vice president
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and
general manager
A general manager (GM) is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility. A general manager usually oversees most or all of ...
) joined The WB in 1997, Kellner came to Myerson with his idea for a national cable feed of the network that would distribute WB programming to these "white area" markets with five or fewer commercial stations (including some markets where
UPN
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, which debuted five days after The WB launched, managed to obtain an affiliation).
Time Warner, the network's majority owner, commissioned
IBM (for hardware and infrastructure) and Enterprise Systems Group (later known as Encoda and then
Harris Corporation; contracted for software systems at the national and local level) to develop a national
data server network that would digitally transmit local and national advertisements,
promos,
station identification
Station identification (ident, network ID or channel ID or bumper) is the practice of radio and television stations and networks identifying themselves on-air, typically by means of a call sign or brand name (sometimes known, particularly in th ...
s and customized
logo bugs for each individual affiliate to
headends operating the local WB 100+ affiliate in their home market. The network would be relayed to a "station in a box" (SIB), a wireless
PC-based system that was programmed to download (through a data feed distributed via
satellite
A satellite or artificial satellite is an object intentionally placed into orbit in outer space. Except for passive satellites, most satellites have an electricity generation system for equipment on board, such as solar panels or radioi ...
), store and
insert advertising appropriate to the individual affiliate's home market in pre-determined time periods set through a
playlist over the satellite-delivered national feed as well as to transfer the programming feeds, via a disseminated address header based on the affiliate's designated call letters. The SIB units – which cost $9,000 per unit – were sold to each prospective affiliate operator with costs fully shouldered by The WB; the SIBs held 90 minutes of programming material at a time, in addition to transmitting advertisements and program promotions, and
logging previously aired ad spots. Affiliates
trafficked local advertising via logfiles sent over the Internet to a
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management system located at The WB's corporate offices, that handled trafficking, programming feed dissemination and local insertion to individual affiliates.
All programming provided by the service was distributed to WB 100+ affiliates via a
centralcasting hub based at the California Video Center in southwestern
Los Angeles
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(near
Los Angeles International Airport).
Originally slated for a September 8 launch, The WeB was launched at 7:00 p.m.
Eastern Time
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama, Colombia, mainland Ecuador, Peru, and a small por ...
on September 21, 1998 on 80 cable-only affiliates, reaching 2.8 million cable television subscribers in the United States – the largest simultaneous launch of a station group in the history of American television. The service (which was renamed The WB 100+ Station Group in March 1999) was created to serve a similar capacity that Superstation WGN held as a national distributor of The WB – the difference being that stations within The WB 100+ group were structured in the manner of a local broadcast station: local WB 100+ affiliates were managed by either a local cable provider or an affiliate of a larger over-the-air television station (usually those affiliated with networks that were established long before The WB debuted in January 1995), which may have produced some local programming – such as a prime time newscast – or televised local sporting events.
WB 100+ stations also aired local
commercial
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* a dose of advertising conveyed through media (such as - for example - radio or television)
** Radio advertisement
** Television advertisement
* (adjective for:) commerce, a system of voluntary exchange of products and s ...
inserts and promotions, although promotions for syndicated programs aired on the service omitted affiliate references (either in the form of verbal identification or use of the affiliate's logo) in favor of network branding and were not customized to reference the program's local airtime (all airtimes listed in syndicated program promos were based on their scheduling in the Eastern and
Central Time Zone
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Central Standard Time (CST) is six hours behind Coordina ...
s), with the announcer being used to read the promo's airtime card only identifying that the program airs "
oday/tonight/tomorrow/day of weekon The WB". Each affiliate had their own individual branding (usually in the form of a fictional
call sign
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, the combination of "The WB" name with either the parent station's
city of license
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In North American br ...
/cable franchise's service area or a regional descriptor of the area, or both).
As part of the initial six-year affiliation agreements signed in late 1997 and throughout 1998, cable providers that operated local WB 100+ affiliates received the service's programming free of charge, instead of being required to pay a carriage fee directly to the network (as providers were required to do when they agreed to carry Foxnet at its launch); in addition, affiliates and their advertising sales partners shared a percentage of the revenue earned through the sale of local ads. The WB 100+ was designed to comply with
Nielsen regulations defining what constitutes a local station; this allowed viewership totals from the cable-only affiliates to be counted alongside the network's conventional broadcast affiliates to accurately count toward the national ratings for WB network programming.
As time went on, The WB 100+ expanded, increasing its body of cable-only affiliates, while also adding affiliations with conventional broadcast television stations in a few markets. By September 2001, The WB 100+'s national availability had increased to 7.4 million households. The service's programming reached 109 out of 111 television markets within those eligible to affiliate with The WB 100+, totaling nine million households by January 2005.
By the time The WB ceased operations in September 2006, the only eligible market never to have been served by a WB 100+ affiliate was
Lafayette, Indiana
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, which received WB programming via WTTK (a satellite station of
WTTV
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, which later became a CW affiliate and is now a
CBS
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affiliate) in the adjacent
Indianapolis market.
In some markets where a local cable provider carried Superstation WGN upon the initial rollout of the service, a WB 100+ affiliate supplanted WGN as the local WB affiliate; though for a year following the launch of The WB 100+, programming duplication between the local WB 100+ affiliate and WGN persisted in some areas where a cable provider did not
black out WB programming airing over the WGN superstation feed. As additional WB 100+ affiliates signed on, network management deemed that The WB's affiliate footprint was large enough to request that WGN drop its programming from the station's national feed in October 1999; the local WGN-TV Chicago signal remained a WB affiliate until the network's September 2006 shutdown (the WGN local feed – which later became a CW affiliate, and is now an independent station – would become available to U.S. viewers outside of the Chicago market in the spring of 2015, when it was added as part of the initial offerings of
Channel Master's LinearTV service).
Transition to The CW Plus
On January 24, 2006, Time Warner and
CBS Corporation
The second incarnation of CBS Corporation (the first being a short-lived rename of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation) was an American multinational media conglomerate with interests primarily in commercial broadcasting, publishing, and ...
announced that The WB and UPN would each be shut down; in turn, the two companies would partner to launch
The CW Television Network
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, a new network that would feature some programs from The WB and UPN initially forming the nuclei of its schedule in September of that year. To coincide with the change, The CW announced on February 24, that it would start a service called
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a secondary national programming service feed of The CW that is fully controlled and 75% owned by Nexstar Media Group, with Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery each owning a 12.5% stake in the network. It is intended prima ...
, a group of primarily
digital subchannels,
analog
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and non-broadcast cable television outlets affiliated with the network, serving areas of the United States ranked below the top 99 television markets; this service is nearly identical in structure to The WB 100+, albeit with a more diversified body of affiliates. There was no guarantee that existing affiliates of The WB 100+ would automatically join The CW Plus, although the vast majority ultimately did, and programming transitioned seamlessly from The WB 100+ to the successor CW Plus service (for example, ''The Daily Buzz'' remained on The CW Plus until September 2014).
Since
digital television
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allows multiple "subchannels" to be carried on a single over-the-air signal, most of the CW Plus' affiliates air on the multicast feeds of those stations that manage the affiliates. Thus, they are no longer technically "cable-only" and must now use the parent station's licensed callsigns instead of a fictional one (although some of the service's over-the-air affiliates use altered versions of the parent station's call letters – with an "E" often replacing the leader "W" or "K" – merely for identification purposes, both on-air and in Nielsen diary-tabulated ratings reports). However, some stations (such as
WBVC in
Northern Michigan
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; WBWO in
Wheeling, West Virginia
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; CW Glendive in
Glendive, Montana
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;
KWMK in
Bismarck, North Dakota;
WBAE in
Alpena, Michigan
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and KSXF in
Joplin, Missouri
Joplin is a city in Jasper and Newton counties in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Missouri. The bulk of the city is in Jasper County, while the southern portion is in Newton County. Joplin is the largest city located within both Jas ...
) remain cable-exclusive outlets.
Programming
The WB 100+ utilized a dual programming model which differed from the traditional network affiliate model used by WB-affiliated stations in large and medium-sized markets, in which the affiliate handled complete responsibility of providing syndicated and local programming to fill non-network timeslots. Instead, dayparts on WB 100+ affiliates without WB programming were programmed by the network, primarily with programs that were being carried at the time in national syndication – along with syndicated
film packages that filled select weekend timeslots, and
brokered programming
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(such as
infomercials and
religious programs) that was time-leased by The WB to fill most overnight and some early afternoon timeslots on the service; this relieved the WB 100+ affiliate's local owner of the duty of acquiring syndicated programming to fill timeslots not occupied by network content from The WB. This was similar to the programming strategy of Foxnet, though unlike The WB 100+, Foxnet was distributed as a conventional cable channel and local operators were not allowed to tailor the service to their local market with their own branding, or carry local news or sports programming.
In addition to the hour of programming provided by the
Kids' WB
Kids' WB (stylized as Kids' WB!) was an American children's programming service and brand of The WB that aired on the network from September 9, 1995, to September 16, 2006. The block moved to The CW (a result of the merger of Time Warner's The W ...
Saturday morning block that featured content complying with the regulations, the remaining two hours of programming that fulfilled
educational programming guidelines defined by the
Children's Television Act
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was taken care of by The WB 100+, which carried syndicated E/I programs for broadcast on early Saturday afternoons immediately after the conclusion of the block for much of The WB 100+'s existence.
The parent station or cable franchise operator of the local WB 100+ affiliate maintained responsibility of selling local advertising for the station or cable-only outlet, with the service allocating time to affiliates to incorporate local commercial inserts during WB network and WB 100+-acquired syndicated programming. The WB offered a multi-tiered advertising sales plan to prospective affiliates allowing for the sale and transmission of commercials for local, regional and national businesses on the customized feed; it also handled responsibility for marketing campaigns customized for each affiliate that were developed through an in-house marketing department operated by The WB for the station group.
The affiliate operator also held responsibility of acquiring alternative syndicated programming to substitute those provided by The WB 100+, if the rights to that program are held by another station in their market.
Though The WB itself never carried any national news programming of its own throughout its 11-year existence, in September 2002, The WB acquired the syndication rights to ''
The Daily Buzz'' – a
morning news and lifestyle program that, at the time, was produced by
ACME Communications
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Company profile
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(a now-defunct media company founded by The WB's original CEO Jamie Kellner, which had all except one of its television stations affiliated with The WB, and was named after the
Acme Corporation
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Origin
The ...
running gag seen in Warner Bros.'
Looney Tunes animated shorts) – for broadcast on The WB 100+; the program was also syndicated to stations in markets that were not covered by either The WB 100+ or where ACME did not own a station.
The WB 100+ feed was originally designed for the Eastern and Pacific Time Zones, whose master schedules were formatted to align the start time of The WB's prime time programming with the network's broadcast affiliate feed; a Central Time Zone feed was added by the early 2000s, followed by an
Alaska Time Zone
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feed that launched in 2005.
As such, the Kids' WB and (from January to September 2006, following the conclusion of the weekday afternoon Kids' WB lineup)
Daytime WB blocks, which were designed to be
tape-delayed, were aired an hour earlier on affiliates – compared to their preferred scheduling – on affiliates in the Central,
Mountain
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and Alaska time zones.
List of WB 100+ affiliates
This is a list of WB 100+ stations, ranked by
designated market area (DMA), as of September 2006, when The WB ceased operations as a broadcast network. Note that most "
call letters
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" below are informal, as these stations did not broadcast over-the-air and as such, were not licensed by the
Federal Communications Commission
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(FCC); the meanings of each affiliate's "call sign" are also included. There were a few exceptions – actual FCC-licensed broadcast stations are indicated in ''italics''. Some of the "fake" calls used by the cable-only WB affiliates (which are identified with
quotation marks) may be the same as calls used by actual over-the-air stations, and may create confusion for some; such stations are identified in this list for disambiguation.
After each station's name is the status of the CW affiliation, . If no status is part of the station's listing, The CW does not have a confirmed affiliate in the market that the WB 100+ station served. The rankings for each market are as of the
2005–06 television season.
*
1 The cable-only "KMWB" is not to be confused with the former callsign used by
Minneapolis
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–
St. Paul, Minnesota CW affiliate
WUCW
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as a WB affiliate.
*
2 The cable-only "KWYP" is not to be confused with
Laramie, Wyoming
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PBS
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member station
KWYP-DT.
*
3 The cable-only "KIWB" is not to be confused with
Boise, Idaho
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low-power station
KIWB-LD.
*
4 The cable-only "WBWP" is not to be confused with
West Palm Beach, Florida
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Mega TV affiliate
WBWP-LD
WBWP-LD, virtual and UHF digital channel 19, is a low-power television station licensed to West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, which primarily airs paid programming. The station is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting. WBWP-LD's transmitt ...
.
*
5 The cable-only "KCWB" is not to be confused with the former callsign used by
Fresno, California
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Tvida Vision affiliate
KVBC-LP, or by
Kansas City, Missouri CW affiliate
KCWE
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as a WB affiliate.
*
6 The cable-only "WBXI" is not to be confused with
Indianapolis, Indiana
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Tr3́s affiliate
WBXI-CA.
*
7 The cable-only "KWBM" is not to be confused with the
Springfield, Missouri
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Daystar affiliate of the same callsign.
*
8 The cable-only "WBMM" is not to be confused with
Montgomery, Alabama
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CW affiliate of the same callsign.
*
9 The cable-only "KWBT" is not to be confused with the former callsign used by
Tulsa, Oklahoma
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CW affiliate
KQCW-DT
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as a WB affiliate.
See also
*
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a secondary national programming service feed of The CW that is fully controlled and 75% owned by Nexstar Media Group, with Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery each owning a 12.5% stake in the network. It is intended prima ...
– successor of The WB 100+; most of the remaining cable-only channels and some over-the-air stations that are outlets of The CW Plus formerly served as affiliates of The WB 100+
*
WGN America
WGN America was an American subscription television network that was owned by the Nexstar Media Group, and was the company's only wholly owned, national cable-originated television channel. The channel in its final form under the WGN branding ra ...
–
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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-based cable channel that is available throughout the United States on cable and satellite television; prior to the launch of The WB 100+, as the national superstation feed of
WGN-TV, the channel served as a de facto WB affiliate for U.S. markets without an over-the-air affiliate from 1995 to 1999
*
CW-W
KTLA (channel 5) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of The CW. It is the largest directly owned property of the network's majority owner, Nexstar Media Group, and is the second ...
– a standard definition-only feed of either
KSWB-TV
KSWB-TV (channel 69) is a television station in San Diego, California, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on Engineer Road in the city's Kearny Mesa section, and its tran ...
or
XETV-TDT
XETV-TDT (channels 6 and 16) is a television station located in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, broadcasting programs from Canal 5 and NU9VE. Its terrestrial signal also covers the San Diego, California area across the international bord ...
/
San Diego
San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the eighth most populous city in the United State ...
for markets without a CW affiliate carried on
DirecTV
DirecTV (trademarked as DIRECTV) is an American multichannel video programming distributor based in El Segundo, California. Originally launched on June 17, 1994, its primary service is a digital satellite service serving the United States. I ...
*
CW-E – a standard definition-only feed of
WDCW
WDCW (channel 50), branded on-air as DCW 50, is a television station in Washington, D.C., airing programming from The CW. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside Hagerstown, Maryland–licensed independen ...
/
Washington, D.C.
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for markets without a CW affiliate carried on DirecTV
*
Foxnet
Foxnet was an American cable television channel that was owned by the Fox Entertainment Group division of News Corporation. Serving as a national feed of the Fox Broadcasting Company (known simply as Fox), the service was intended for American t ...
– a similar cable-only network for markets without a Fox affiliate, that operated from 1991 to 2006
*
Univision
Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes ...
– American Spanish-language network that offers a national cable/satellite feed for markets without a local affiliate
*
UniMás
UniMás (, stylized as ''UNIMÁS'', and originally known as TeleFutura from its launch on January 14, 2002, to January 6, 2013) is an American Spanish free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. The network's programming, which i ...
– American Spanish-language network that offers a national cable/satellite feed for markets without a local affiliate
*
Telemundo
Telemundo (; formerly NetSpan) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, a division of NBCUniversal, which in turn is owned by Comcast. It provides content nationally with pr ...
– American Spanish-language network that offers a national cable/satellite feed for markets without a local affiliate
*
Azteca América
Azteca América (, sometimes shortened to Azteca) is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by INNOVATE Corp., which acquired the network from the Azteca International Corporation subsidiary of TV Azteca.
Headquartere ...
– American Spanish-language network that offers a national cable/satellite feed for markets without a local affiliate
*
Estrella TV
Estrella TV () is an American Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by the Estrella Media subsidiary of HPS Investment Partners, LLC. The network primarily features programs, the vast majority of which are produced by the network ...
– American Spanish-language network that offers a national cable/satellite feed for markets without a local affiliate
*
CTV Two Alberta
CTV 2 Alberta is a Canadian English language entertainment and former educational television channel in the province of Alberta. Owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc., it operates as a ''de facto'' owned-and-operated station of its ...
– a similar cable-only affiliate of
CTV Two
CTV 2 is a Canadian English-language television system owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc. The system consists of four terrestrial owned-and-operated television stations (O&Os) in Ontario, one in British Columbia and two regional ...
in the Canadian province of
Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
; formerly Access
*
CTV Two Atlantic
CTV 2 Atlantic is a Canadian cable television channel serving Atlantic Canada owned by Bell Media, with its studios located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Owned by the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc., it operates as a ''de facto'' owned-and-operated ...
– a similar cable-only affiliate of CTV Two in
Atlantic Canada; formerly the Atlantic Satellite Network (ASN) and
A Atlantic
*
City Saskatchewan
Citytv Saskatchewan (formerly the Saskatchewan Communications Network, or SCN) is a Canadian English language cable television channel in the province of Saskatchewan. Headquartered in the provincial capital of Regina, the channel is owned by t ...
– a similar cable-only affiliate of
City
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be def ...
in the Canadian province of
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dak ...
References
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The WB
Nexstar Media Group
Defunct television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2006