The WB Television Network, or simply The WB, was a television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture of Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. As a replacement, on January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment announced plans to launch The CW Television Network in the fall of 2006 and shut down The WB concurrently, indicating that intellectual property rights and compensation were ...
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The WB Television Network, or simply The WB, was a television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture of Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. As a replacement, on January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment announced plans to launch The CW Television Network in the fall of 2006 and shut down The WB concurrently, indicating that intellectual property rights and compensation were also part of the networks' teething troubles. The WB shut down on September 17, 2006, and merged with UPN to form The CW Television Network.
The WB was relaunched as an online network on April 28, 2008 by Warner Bros. The new website allows users to watch former shows of the network, and can only be accessed in the United States.
Much like its competitor UPN, The WB was a reaction primarily to new FCC deregulation of media ownership rules that repealed fin-syn, and partly to the success of the upstart FOX and first-run syndicated programming...
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