The WB 100+ Station Group

The WB 100+ Station Group
Launched September 21, 1998 (1998-09-21)
Closed September 18, 2006 (2006-09-18)
Network The WB
Owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment (Time Warner)
Tribune Company
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
Country United States
Language English
Broadcast area Nationwide (was available only in smaller media markets)
Affiliates (see section)
Headquarters Los Angeles, California
Formerly called The WeB (1998–1999)
Replaced by The CW Plus
Timeshift service The WB 100+ East
The WB 100+ Mountain
The WB 100+ Pacific

The WB 100+ Station Group (originally called The WeB from its developmental stages until March 1999) is a defunct programming service operated by The WB Television Network – owned by the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner, the Tribune Company and the group's founder, Jamie Kellner – comprising an affiliate group primarily made of non-broadcast local cable television outlets. Operating from September 21, 1998 to September 18, 2006, the service was intended for areas ranked below the top 100 Nielsen Media Research-designated television markets in the United States.

In addition to carrying WB programming, it also maintained a master schedule of syndicated programming that aired simultaneously on all WB 100+ affiliates outside of designated network programming time periods, essentially structuring the service as a de facto national feed of The WB. Programming and promotional services for The WB 100+ were housed at The WB's corporate headquarters in Burbank, California; engineering and master control operations were based at the California Video Center in Los Angeles.

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 (whose corporate parent, the Tribune Company (now Tribune Media), held minority ownership in the network), which resulted in Tribune's Chicago television flagship WGN-TV carrying The WB's prime time programming (the Kids' WB block – which debuted in September 1995, nine months after The WB's launch – would air instead on independent station WCIU-TV before moving to WGN-TV in September 2004).[1]

Through that deal, WGN's national superstation feed (now separately branded as WGN America and operating as a conventional basic cable channel) would act as a default WB affiliate for markets where the network would have difficulty securing an affiliation with a broadcast television station 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 that would be possible without such an agreement in the interim.[1]

Development and launch

Jamie Kellner – 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.[2][3][4] Kellner had previous experience in developing such a service; during his tenure as Fox's original network president from 1986 to 1993, Kellner developed a similar (but less localized) service, Foxnet, a cable channel owned by News Corporation (the corporate parent of Fox at the time) that operated from June 1991 to September 2006, and was the first 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 and general manager) 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, which debuted one week after The WB launched, managed to obtain an affiliation).[5]

Time Warner, the network's majority owner, commissioned IBM to develop a national data server network that would digitally transmit local and national advertisements, promos, station identifications 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 5.25-inch (13.3 cm) wireless PC-based system that was programmed to download (through a data feed distributed via satellite), 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 Novar management system located at The WB's corporate offices, that handled trafficking, programming feed dissemination and local insertion to individual affiliates.[6][7][5][8] All programming provided by the service was distributed to WB 100+ Plus affiliates via a centralcasting hub based at the California Video Center in southwestern Los Angeles (near Los Angeles International Airport).[7][5][8]

Originally slated for a September 8 launch, The WeB was launched at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time 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[9]) 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 inserts and promotions (with promos for both syndicated and network programs omitting affiliate references in favor of network branding), and each had their own individual branding (usually in the form of a fictional call sign, the combination of "The WB" name with either the parent station/cable franchise's city of license or a regional descriptor of the area, or both).[10][6][7][5]

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.[7][5]

As time went on, The WB 100+ Station Group 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.[5][11][12][13] 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, which received WB programming via WTTV (later a CW affiliate and now a CBS 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+ Station Group, 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[14] (the local WGN-TV Chicago signal remained a WB affiliate until the network's September 2006 shutdown; that station is now a CW affiliate). However, a sudden reversal of some sort has happened as the Chicago area feed (including CW programming) is included nationally as part of the initial offerings of Channel Master's LinearTV service, which launched in the spring of 2015.[15]

Transition to The CW Plus

On January 24, 2006, Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that The WB and UPN would each be shut down; in turn, the two companies would partner to launch The CW Television Network, 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.[16] To coincide with the change, The CW announced on February 24, that it would start a service called The CW Plus, a group of primarily digital subchannels, analog 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 most 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).[17][18]

Since digital television 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; WBWO in Wheeling, West Virginia; CW Glendive in Glendive, Montana; KWMK in Bismarck, North Dakota; WBAE in Alpena, Michigan; KSXF in Joplin, Missouri and WBPQ in Presque Isle, Maine) remain cable-exclusive outlets.

Programming

For a list of WB programming seen on the service during network time periods, see List of programs broadcast by The WB.

The WB 100+ Station Group 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 (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 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 was taken care of by The WB 100+ Station Group, 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.[8][5] 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 (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 running gag seen in Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes animated shorts) – for broadcast on The WB 100+ Station Group; 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.[19][20]

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 feed that launched in 2005.[11] 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 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" below are informal, as these stations did not broadcast over-the-air and as such, were not licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (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, as of October 2015. 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.

DMA # Market Station/(Branding) Current status Callsign meaning
92. Harlingen-Weslaco-Brownsville-McAllen, Texas "KMHB" ("WB53")
(cable only) 		Was ranked #104 when the channel was founded; formerly "KHWB"; The CW is now affiliated with KCWT-CD McAllen Harlingen Brownsville
97. Savannah, Georgia "WBVH" ("WB13")
(cable only) 		Was ranked #100 when the channel was founded; The CW is now affiliated with former UPN affiliate WGSA WB SaVannaH
101. Charleston, South Carolina "WBLN" ("WB14")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WCBD-DT2 WB Lowcountry Network
103. Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney, Nebraska KCWL 51
"KWBL" (cable only) 		Both became part of The CW Plus KWBL: WB Lincoln
104. Fort Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Arkansas KBBL 34 Switched to RTV programming, and is now affiliated with MyNetworkTV, Antenna TV and Tuff TV under the callsign KXNW; sibling KPBI-CA went to MyNetworkTV; The CW is now affiliated with KHBS-DT2 / KHOG-DT2
105. Greenville-New Bern-Washington, North Carolina "WGWB"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WNCT-DT2 Greenville's WB
106. Fort Wayne, Indiana "WBFW" ("WB37")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WPTA-DT2 WB Fort Wayne
107. Florence-Myrtle Beach, South Carolina "WFWB"
(cable only) 		The CW is now seen on former UPN affiliate WWMB (carrying primetime programming only) Florence WB
108. Springfield-Holyoke, Massachusetts "WBQT" ("WB11"/"WB16")
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus, before WWLP took over the channel's operations in March 2015; The CW is now affiliated with WWLP-DT2
109. Tallahassee, Florida-Thomasville, Georgia WFXU 48 Became part of The CW Plus, now silent; The CW is now affiliated with WTLF and WTLH-DT2
110. Lansing, Michigan "WBL" ("WB30")
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus and now operates as a digital subchannel of co-owned WLAJ WB Lansing
111. Tyler-Longview, Texas "KWTL"
(cable only) 		In January 2006, KCEB moved its affiliation from UPN to The WB, and has since joined the CW WB TyLer
112. Reno, Nevada KREN-TV 27 Became part of The CW Plus RENo
113. Traverse City-Cadillac, Michigan "WBVC" ("WB61")
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus WB TraVerse City
114. Sioux Falls, South Dakota KWSD 36 Became part of The CW Plus WB South Dakota
115. Augusta, Georgia "WBAU" ("WB23")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WAGT-DT2 WB AUgusta
116. Montgomery, Alabama "WBMY"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WBMM, an unrelated digital station WB MontgomerY
117. Peoria-Bloomington, Illinois "WBPE"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WHOI-DT2 WB PEoria
118. Fargo-Grand Forks, North Dakota "WBFG" ("WB8")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WDAY-DT2 WB FarGo
119. Boise, Idaho "KWOB"
(cable only) 		The WB moved to "KWOB" from KNIN-TV, which was a CW affiliate from 2006 to 2011, when it affiliated with Fox; The CW is now affiliated with former UPN affiliate KYUU-LD and is simulcast on KBOI-DT2
120. Macon, Georgia "WBMN" ("WB3")
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus WB MacoN
121. Eugene, Oregon "KZWB" ("WB11")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KMTR-DT2
122. Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo, California "KWCA" ("WB5")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KSBY-DT2 WB CAlifornia
123. La Crosse-Eau Claire, Wisconsin "WBCZ" ("WB15")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WXOW-DT3 in La Crosse and WQOW-DT2 in Eau Claire WB La CroZe (Crosse)
124. Lafayette, Louisiana KLWB 50 Became part of The CW Plus; lost the affiliation to KATC-DT2 in 2010 and joined This TV, MeTV in 2011, and Antenna TV in 2012. Lafayette's WB
125. Monterey-Salinas, California "KMWB" ("WB14")1
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KION-DT2 Monterey's WB
126. Yakima-Pasco-Richland-Kennewick, Washington "KWYP"2
(cable only) 		The CW was shown on KCWK until 2008; it is now carried on digital subchannels of KIMA-TV and KEPR WB Yakima
127. Columbus, Georgia "WBG"
(cable only) 		The CW was affiliated with former UPN affiliate WLGA, now is affiliated on WLTZ-DT2 WB Georgia
128. Bakersfield, California "KWFB" ("WB12")
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus; this station is simulcast on KGET-DT2 backronym for BakersField's WB
129. Corpus Christi, Texas "KWDB" ("WB16"/"WB23")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KRIS-DT2
130. Chico-Redding, California "KIWB" ("WB10")3
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KHSL-DT2
131. Amarillo, Texas "KDBA" ("WB11")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KVII-DT2 WB Amarillo (D=Double U)
132. Columbus-Tupelo-West Point, Mississippi "WBWP"4
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WCBI-DT3 WB West Point
133. Rockford, Illinois "WBR" 14
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus and now operates as a digital subchannel of co-owned WREX-TV WB Rockford
134. Wausau-Rhinelander, Wisconsin "WBWA" ("WB15")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WAOW-DT2 in Wausau and WYOW-DT2 in Eagle River WB WAusau
135. Monroe, Louisiana-El Dorado, Arkansas "KWMB" ("WB12")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KNOE-DT2 backronym for WB Monroe
136. Topeka, Kansas "WBKS" ("WB5")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KTKA-DT3 WB KanSas
137. Duluth, Minnesota-Superior, Wisconsin "KWBD"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KDLH-DT2 WB Duluth
138. Columbia-Jefferson City, Missouri "KJWB" ("WB5")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KOMU-DT3; KJWB is off-air Jefferson City WB
139. Wilmington, North Carolina "WBW" ("WB29")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WWAY-DT2 WB Wilmington
140. Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas "KWBB" ("WB10")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KFDM-DT2 WB Beaumont
141. Medford-Klamath Falls, Oregon "KMFD"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KTVL-DT2 MedForD
142. Erie, Pennsylvania "WBEP" ("Northwest PA's WB")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WSEE-DT2 WB Erie Pennsylvania
143. Sioux City, Iowa "KXWB"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KTIV-DT2 SiouX City WB
144. Wichita Falls, Texas "KWB"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KAUZ-DT2 Warner Bros.
145. Joplin, Missouri "KSXF"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus
146. Lubbock, Texas KWBZ 43 Became part of The CW Plus, and now uses the callsign KLCW-TV
147. Albany, Georgia "WBSK"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WSWG-DT3
148. Salisbury, Maryland "WBD" ("WB3")
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus and now operates as a digital subchannel of co-owned WMDT WB Delmarva
149. Bluefield-Beckley-Oak Hill, West Virginia "WBB"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WVVA-DT2 WB Bluefield
150. Terre Haute, Indiana "WBI" ("WB3")
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus WB Indiana
151. Bangor, Maine "WBAN" ("WB 4")
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus and is shown on WABI-DT2 WB BANgor
152. Rochester, Minnesota "KWBR"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KTTC-DT2 WB Rochester
153. Palm Springs, California "KCWB"5
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KCWQ-LP and a digital subchannel of KESQ-TV California's WB
154. Wheeling, West Virginia-Steubenville, Ohio "WBWO" ("WB18")
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus WB West Virginia-Ohio
155. Anchorage, Alaska "KWBX"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KYUR-DT2
156. Binghamton, New York "WBXI"6
(cable only) 		Became part of CW and now operates as a digital subchannel of co-owned WBNG-TV
157. Panama City, Florida "WBPC"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WJHG-DT2 WB Panama City
158. Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi "WBGP"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus; The CW is now affiliated with WXXV-DT2 WB Biloxi-GulfPort
159. Odessa-Midland, Texas KWWT 30 Became part of The CW Plus
160. Bismarck-Minot, North Dakota "KWMK"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus WB BisMarcK
161. Sherman, Texas-Ada, Oklahoma "KSHD"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KTEN-DT2 SHerman-Denison
162. Gainesville, Florida "WBFL" ("WB10")
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WCJB-DT2 WB FLorida
163. Idaho Falls-Pocatello, Idaho KPIF 15 Became part of The CW Plus, now defunct; The CW is now affiliated with KIFI-DT3 Pocatello-Idaho Falls
164. Abilene-Sweetwater, Texas "KWAW"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KTXS-DT2
165. Clarksburg-Weston, West Virginia "WVWB"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WVFX-DT2 West Virginia's WB
166. Utica, New York "WBU"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus and later operated as a subchannel of WKTV; The CW is now affiliated with WKTV-DT3 WB Utica
167. Hattiesburg-Laurel, Mississippi "WBH2"
(cable only) 		WB Hattiesburg
168. Missoula, Montana "KIDW"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KPAX-DT2
169. Quincy, Illinois-Hannibal, Missouri-Keokuk, Iowa "WEWB" ("WB6")
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus and now operates as a digital subchannel of co-owned WGEM-TV
170. Yuma, Arizona-El Centro, California "KWUB"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus and later operated as a subchannel of KSWT; The CW is now affiliated with KECY-DT3
171. Billings, Montana "KWBM"7
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KTVQ-DT2 WB Montana
172. Dothan, Alabama "WBDO"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with former UPN affiliate WTVY-DT2 WB DOthan
173. Elmira, New York "WBE"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with co-owned WENY-DT2 WB Elmira
174. Jackson, Tennessee "WBJK"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus WB JacKson
175. Lake Charles, Louisiana "WBLC"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KVHP-DT2 WB Lake Charles
176. Alexandria, Louisiana KBCA 41 ("WB 41") Became part of The CW Plus
177. Rapid City, South Dakota KWBH-LP 27 Became part of The CW Plus WB Black Hills
178. Watertown, New York "WBWT"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus and now operates as a digital subchannel of co-owned WWTI WB WaterTown
179. Jonesboro, Arkansas "KJOS"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus under the branding "CW 21 Jonesboro" JOneSboro
180. Marquette, Michigan "WBMK"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WBKP-DT2 WB Marquette
(K=Q)
181. Harrisonburg, Virginia "WBHA"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WVIR-DT3 WB HArrisonburg
182. Greenwood-Greenville, Mississippi "WBWD"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus WB GreenWooD
183. Bowling Green, Kentucky "WBWG"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WBKO-DT3 BoWling Green
184. Meridian, Mississippi "WBMM"8
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WTOK-DT3 WB Meridian, Mississippi
185. Lima, Ohio "WBOH" ("WB3")
(cable only) 		Defunct; later operated as a digital subchannel of WLIO, The CW is now carried in the market on cable through out-of-market affiliate WBDT/Dayton, Ohio WB OHio
186. Charlottesville, Virginia "WBC"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with WVIR-DT3 WB Charlottesville
187. Grand Junction-Montrose, Colorado "KWGJ"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KKCO-DT2 WB Grand Junction
188. Laredo, Texas "KTXW" ("Laredo's WB19")
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus, and operates as a digital subchannel of co-owned KGNS-TV
189. Great Falls, Montana "KWGF"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KRTV-DT2 W Great Falls
190. Parkersburg, West Virginia "WBPB"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus, but shut down in 2008 WB ParkersBurg
192. Twin Falls, Idaho "KWTE"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KMVT-DT2
193. Butte-Bozeman, Montana "KWXB"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KXLF-DT2
194. Eureka, California "KWBT"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KVIQ-DT2
195. Cheyenne, Wyoming "KCHW"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus and now operates as a digital subchannel of KGWN CHeyenne, Wyoming
196. Bend, Oregon "KWBO"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KTVZ-DT2 WB Oregon
197. San Angelo, Texas "KWSA" ("WB14")
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus WB San Angelo
198. Casper-Riverton, Wyoming "KWWY"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with former UPN affiliate K26ES WB WYoming
199. Ottumwa, Iowa "KWOT"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus WB OTtumwa
200. Mankato, Minnesota "KWYE"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus
201. St. Joseph, Missouri "WBJO"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus and now operates as a digital subchannel of KNPN-LD WB St. JOseph
202. Zanesville, Ohio "WBZV"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus, until it shut down in 2008 under the operation of WHIZ-TV; WBZV has since been reinstated on Zanesville cable systems and is now part of The CW Plus, operated directly by Time Warner Cable WB ZanesVille
203. Fairbanks, Alaska "KWBX"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KATN-DT2
204. Presque Isle, Maine "WBPQ" ("WB13")
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus WB PresQue Isle
205. Victoria, Texas "KWVB"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus and is now simulcast on K39HB backronym for WB Victoria
206. Helena, Montana KMTF 10 Became part of The CW Plus
207. Juneau, Alaska "KWJA"
(cable only) 		The CW is now affiliated with KJUD-DT2 WB Juneau, Alaska
208. Alpena, Michigan "WBAE" Became part of The CW Plus WB AlpEna
209. North Platte, Nebraska "KWPL"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus WB North PLatte
210. Glendive, Montana "KWZB"
(cable only) 		Became part of The CW Plus, and now branded as "CW Glendive"

See also

References

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