In 2001, UPN acquired Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Roswell for their final seasons from The WB in a public bidding war between the two with producing studio 20th Century Fox Television.

On January 24, 2006, UPN parent CBS Corporation and Time Warner, owner of The WB, announced that they were to create a new broadcast network, The CW Television Network -- for all intents and purposes, a merger of UPN and The WB.

Two dramas produced by Spelling Television, 7th Heaven and Charmed also helped bring The WB into the spotlight, with " Charmed " lasting eight seasons and being the longest running drama with female leads and " 7th Heaven " surviving eleven seasons and being the longest running family drama and longest running show for The WB.

In 2006, Warner and CBS Paramount Television decided to close The WB and CBS's UPN and jointly launch The CW Television Network.

He was a regular cast member of the television series Roswell on WB Television Network and UPN, and made a memorable appearance as an aging rock star on Law & Order.

Beginning in 1999, The Wizard of Oz will be shown on cable, and in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 it will be telecast by the WB Television Network in addition to its cable showings.

In the 2006 – 2007 television season, The CW Television Network was launched by the merger of The WB Television Network and the UPN network.

Animation and originally aired on The WB Television Network from September 6, 1996 to February 12, 2000.

He was the executive producer for Dark Shadows for The WB Television Network ; however, it was canceled before the pilot episode aired.

which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB and was produced by Sony Pictures Television.

A few years after Extreme Gong ended, Sony planned to revive the show again under its classic name and format for The WB Television Network, but this version was never realized.

The WB Television Network ( commonly shortened to The WB ) is a former television network and present-day internet television network in the United States, that in its original television incarnation was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting.

The WB Television Network shut down on September 17, 2006, and merged with UPN ( which had shut down two days earlier ) to form The CW.

Much like its competitor UPN, the WB Television Network was a reaction primarily to new FCC deregulation of media ownership rules that repealed fin-syn, and partly to the success of the upstart Fox and first-run syndicated programming during the late 1980s and early 1990s such as Baywatch, Star Trek: The Next Generation and War of the Worlds, as well as the erosion in ratings suffered by independent television stations due to the growth of cable television and movie rentals.

On November 2, 1993 the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner announced the formation of the WB Television Network with Tribune Company holding a minority interest ; as such, Tribune signed an agreement with the network to affiliate with the majority of Tribune Broadcasting's television stations, which at the time consisted largely of independent stations.

The WB Television Network began its life on January 11, 1995.

The decision to have WGN's superstation feed act as a de facto affiliate of The WB Television Network to markets that did not have an affiliate was made one month after the announcement of the network's launch on December 3, 1993.

The WB Television Network began programming on Sunday nights in the 1995 – 1996 season, but none of the new shows ( including the Kirk Cameron vehicle Kirk and night-time soap opera Savannah ) managed to garner much viewing interest.

With three hit shows in its roster, the WB Television Network continued to build its teen fanbase the following season with college drama Felicity and the wicca-themed Charmed, both of which set new records for the network when they premiered with 7. 1 and 7. 7 million viewers, respectively.

In 1995, Warner and station owner Tribune Company of Chicago launched The WB Network, finding a niche market in teenagers.

Some programming produced by Cartoon Network Studios has also been broadcast on the now-defunct Kids ' WB, another Time Warner property.

In 2004, she made several guest appearances in the WB Network series, Smallville, playing Genevieve Teague, the wealthy, scheming mother of Jason Teague ( Jensen Ackles ).

In 2000, WB decided to make the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies library exclusive to fellow Time Warner properties, specifically Cartoon Network.

After Snow White, Kreuk's agent sent an audition tape to screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who at the time were putting together the cast of a show they had created for the WB Network entitled Smallville.

Quiñones guest-starred in an season 5 episode of the WB Network television series Smallville.

Sinclair Broadcast Group owned both the Fox and WB affiliates in the DMA prior to the September 2006 merger of UPN and WB into a newly created CW Network and was forced by Fox to convert its WB affiliate ( WDKA ) into a MyNetworkTV affiliate ( MY49 ).

Whedon and Greenwalt prepared a six-minute promotional video pitch, often called the " Unaired Angel pilot " for the WB Network.

On February 14, 2004, the WB Network announced that Angel would not be brought back for a sixth season.

In contrast, The WB debuted one week earlier, on January 11, with four series, only one of which, Muscle, would not survive its first season.

The first two sources ( WB ) are a part of the " Weld-Blundell collection ", donated by Herbert Weld Blundell to the Ashmolean Museum.

In 2003, he appeared in the first celebrity-driven reality series The Surreal Life on The WB.

" Kiss Me " was also played on the WB teen drama Dawson's Creek in episodes No. 2-06 " The Dance " and No. 2-18 " The Perfect Wedding ", and is found on the show's first soundtrack CD, Songs from Dawson's Creek ( Volume 1 ) and also played at the televised wedding of England's Prince Edward.

WB has announced a " Saturday Morning Cartoons Collection " which will contain an episode of The Batman / Tarzan Adventure Hour, which will be the first official video release of any kind of the Filmation Tarzan.

A Giardia isolate ( WB ) was the first diplomonad to have its genome sequenced.

The first Archibald Prize was awarded by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1921, to WB McInnes, for his portrait of Desbrowe Annear.

The WB originally was slated to launch with two nights of primetime programming in the first year, with two additional nights of primetime, a late primetime half-hour strip, 4½ hours of weekday daytime programming and a four-hour Saturday morning children's lineup in the second year ; by the third year, a fifth night of primetime and 1½ hours of weekday programming outside of primetime would have been added, followed by an additional hour of primetime and 1½ hours on weekday afternoons by year four, and a seventh night of primetime in the fifth year of operation.

During the 2004 – 05 season, the WB Television Network finished behind rival UPN for the first time in several years, and fell even further behind in the fall of 2005.

Due to Tribune's ownership stake, the majority of the company's independent stations were tapped to serve as charter affiliates of the network ; one month later on December 3, 1993, The WB signed an affiliation agreement with WGN-TV, returning a network affiliation to channel 9 for the first time since 1956, and effectively making the station a de facto WB owned-and-operated station due to Tribune's minority interest in the network.

The WB launched on January 11, 1995, with WGN-TV airing only the network's primetime programming for its first nine years ( Kids ' WB programming aired locally on WCIU-TV ( channel 26 ), which ended its affiliation with Univision in January 1995 and converted to an English-language independent station ).

The series premiered on August 26, 1996, on The WB, the first time that the network aired Monday night programming, and was originally broadcast from August 26, 1996 to May 13, 2007.

That same year, he made his first foray into television with Felicity, which ran for four seasons on The WB Network, serving as the show's co-creator ( with Matt Reeves ) and executive producer.

The series was one of the first to debut on the new Kids ' WB Saturday morning block of The WB, on September 9, 1995.

Aside from being the first video star ( her 11 minute WB short film was so successful in promoting her image that a year later MTV came into being ), her influence on pop and jazz was prominent in the early years of her career.

It first aired on Kids ' WB in January 2001.

It was that the new evolved and present close captioning of the NCI was first used and seen on Kids WB.

* " Exile " ( Smallville episode ), the first episode of the third season of the WB original series, Smallville

The Source of All Evil is a fictional character on the WB television series Charmed, a demon who is the ruler of the underworld for the show's first 4 seasons.

Mission Hill ( formerly known as The Downtowners ) is an American animated television series that first aired on The WB in 1999.

The first was a 12 " Vinyl figure sold at the WB Stores.