The Hard Sell

[@SeinenNinja]

To explain for WCW, it was a company that most of the executives wanted to sell off or kill and either Ted Turner or massive success in the mid 90s prevented it. By the time Kellner came in, WCW was already on deaths door due to bad management, horrible creative, and massive contracts. They were about to finalize a sale to an outside production group when cancellation hit. As for the episode, great as always, WB's first night was a request I wanted to send if I had any extra cash and glad it was done well.

[@MrWEWE5]

I’m so happy that you would review The WB. I’m familiar with this network because I watched its children’s block Kids’ WB (Tiny Toons, Pokemon, etc). These commercials are definitely 90s.

[@whateversunpopular1338]

9:55 she’s going to eat a whole super size fries by herself 😂

[@ifaiful]

Omg, they had the McDonald’s power of play as in Uk too. I haven’t seen for years. They altered the tubes though; it was first The Lone Ranger, news at ten, grandstand, then a tune I have no idea, and finally this is your life

[@gas-drawls]

woah, was NOT expecting you of all people to do the dubba-dubba WB. pleasant start to my morning

[@stanwbaker]

With the launch of The WB, the frog from One Froggy Evening acquired a name. MJF remained the mascot of this "program distribution service" until the end. The literal last moment of The WB was MJF taking a bow, although most affiliates pulled the plug 20 minutes early.

[@bas3q]

Thanks for covering this from a non-American perspective... When the WB started, I was 14 and the fact that we were getting not one, but TWO new TV networks that fall (UPN being the other) seemed so foreign and weird, yet exciting. (Maybe the same for when kids of the 80s got Channel Four, or kids of the 90s got Channel Five? Don't know.) I was a little kid when FOX started up, and though I watched that network grow through my childhood, I wasn't really aware of it existing until it was already a thing. One important factor in how WB presented itself that I don't think (?) you mentioned is that it was a terrestrial OTA network in an era before full adoption of cable and satellite TV in the U.S. So you either had to have a station in your market that affiliated with WB or have cable/satellite to see it (which only about 2/3rds of the country did at the time). Even if you had a station in your area that was a WB affiliate, they were often stuck on high-number UHF channels that had questionable reception. Where I grew up, even though The WB was the stronger new network, UPN scooped them and got on the better local affiliate with a much lower channel number and better reception, and WB got stuck on a higher channel with worse reception. As a result, after a year or two, it was often hard to remember they were even there. So The WB had to be really different to make you want to go to the trouble of turning off the established channels and seeking it out. I think this guided the presentation style and selection of shows just as much as other factors. Also, The CW doesn't do teen dramas and superhero stuff as much anymore after Nextstar bought them out. Captain Midnight did a really good video this week on what's become of The CW as of late: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHvYdKiKbragmsU

[@puddock6336]

The real thing that saved the WB was the same thing that saved Ant and Dec from the abyss; Pokemon. Nobody my age remembers anything else from the WB. In my home of New York City, more people remember the WBs local coverage of baseball than any crap sitcom or crap teen drama.

[@glassowlie]

We going further abroad!

[@colinr0380]

House Guest... with Jeffrey Jones as third billed co-star. Whatever happened to him? *_DON'T_* Google that!!

[@lucythecbckidsfan8200]

Since you did the first day of The WB, how about the first day of Kids WB sometime?

[@MrGluben]

The WB at launch is probably as good as Warner Bros Discovery is today, which, considering it axed Coyote vs. ACME and Batgirl among others, isn't saying much.

[@JetScreamer_YT]

Do you live in PortWenn?

[@BobtheFishProductions]

No.