WPIX - From WB to CW - 2006

This is probably the single coolest thing I've ever seen a television station do.
It's September 17, 2006. The WB has just aired its farewell montage. The CW is to premiere the night after. WPIX is about to transition to its new branding, with the first "CW11 News At Ten" to premiere after the final night of the WB. Instead of letting the moment pass quietly, they decide to mark it. This clip is how they did that.
In a nutshell - it's just about every logo the station had ever used, shown with date and era-appropriate music (you probably can imagine the music choice for 11 Alive). Most of them are VERY accurately reconstructed, down to color and font - they even use the two distinct versions of the circle 11 from 1969 and 1985 respectively. They only made one major omission: the first generation WB11 logo from 1995, which put a smaller WB on the black/gold "11", is missing. Aside from this, everything is here - even the short lived "Circle 11 Alive" logo from 1984 can be seen very briefly!
It all culminates to a grand reveal of the new CW11 logo and the first open to the newly-named CW11 News at Ten, which is a modified version of the graphics set they were using previously. All of this seems ironic now that they ditched this branding for the return of the circle 11 and "WPIX"...

[@LogoBro1]

"Hey welcome to the CW, someone got stabbed!"

[@lyricktheplayhousedisneyru2844]

HAHHAHA

[@Prussia1867]

What a way to start off

[@abandonedchannel1010]

Best way to start off a merged broadcast network

[@RowanRoblox614]

Creeper I saw nev's comment that he said farewell wb11 and cw11

[@LTDF2013]

POV: You Watched The CW When It Started And The News Tells You Someone Got Stabbed.

[@hundredfaye618]

0:05 Mack the Knive - Louis Armstrong 0:11 Land of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett 0:16 Revolution - The Beatles 0:22 Stayin’ Alive - Bee-Gees 0:33 Thriller - Michael Jackson 0:39 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana 0:46 Music - Madonna 0:55 Here I Come (The CW Mix) - Fergie

[@RTSXVI]

Ty I was wondering what those were called lol

[@kerisaltchannel3817]

Thank you

[@lenzino7383]

The CW STILL hasn’t lived up to classic sitcoms of UPN or the numerous groundbreaking series and immense popularity of the WB era.

[@robjackson5245]

It's The WB, not WB and second The WB was not popular. And it was nothing like Warner Bros.. UPN was like Warner Bros. not The WB. Many celebrities did not endorse UPN over The WB without reason, Billy Ray and Miley being 2 examples

[@robjackson5245]

The WB was a white network unlike the studio who it claimed to be (more like an attempt to gentrify a black studio into the Big W days of the 70s) and UPN was black like Warner. I'm fact UPN had more roots in Warner Bros. more than The WB via PTEN. I'm gonna make a true Warner Bros. network called WB. No "The", no lame frog. None of that crap.

[@robjackson5245]

CW is better than The WB because they admitted that UPN won. They were so hateful of The WB, their first prototype logo (which included the UPN logo) used the Warner Bros. logo instead hahaha. WGN is so lame and racist and loving of The WB's spirit they left CW and became independent. Surprised WPIX - the only other station so keen on keeping The WB's spirit alive hasn't done the same. They downright hate CW, Warner Bros., and anything UPNish. The WB, lame unpopular by-the-book anti-autistic, anti-tomboy Allied white supremacist Germanic Judeo-Protestant network. "Friends"-loving and "Seinfeld"-and-"bro"-hating

[@mightybitchy]

@@robjackson5245 Nobody watched UPN. The only popular shows there, had white leads. So what are you talking about? As far as the WB is concerned, it brought shows that break the viewing record on streaming channels. And reruns even. Even the short lived series, are popular on KZbin. So again, WTF are you talking about?!

[@robjackson5245]

@M Yes they did you humongous jackass. It's The WB that nobody saw. It was unpopular in all 11 years of their time. Compared to UPN. And you're dumb and stupid if you think The WB even resembled Warner Bros. one bit. It had no star endorsement. And UPN had more memorable shows. "Malcolm & Eddie", "America's Next Top Model" - black leads - and "The Sentinel"'s head - Latino, all popular shows.

[@jalenbrewster3677]

I'll be loving WB forever :-)

[@fernandoifill-ruiz3475]

R.I.P CW11 (WPIX New York) Sunday September 17, 2006-Sunday November 30, 2008.

[@d.w.thomson-granata1144]

WPIX is still alive and on air.

[@frontrow9978]

I want the wb back

[@TheKiller92272]

WPIX had Aton of names

[@TheKiller92272]

Free form had several names as well

[@VideoGamesAndTheWorld]

WB11 was a golden age. Watching cartoons and awesome shows such as Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Smallville etc. Great times, great times!

[@muntaqaak458]

Smallville and Supernatural are my favourites.

[@VBaskin2010]

Ahem! And Pokemon and Cardcaptors and MegaMan: NT Warrior and Yu-Gi-Oh!

[@brucejackstone7153]

WPIX did had a bit of a SEGA-Like attitude a bit of their own way during and after they became WB11 NEW YORK in mid 90s with mix of great shows including Garfield and Friends, Sailor Moon, ADVENTURES OF SONIC THE HEDGEHOG, Beast Wars Transformers, Bugs N Daffy Show, Animaniacs, Pokémon, X-Men Evolution, Everybody Loves Raymond, Sabrina The Animated series, Static Shock, Family Matters, CARDCAPTORS, RESCUE HEROES, Fresh prince of Belair, Soul Train, STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION, Sabrina the teenage Witch, SMALLVILLE, The Jamie Foxx Show, and so-on great times

[@justju0rd]

Rip KidsWB

[@VideoGamesAndTheWorld]

@@brucejackstone7153 yeah.

[@cutemimi25]

1948 Mack the Knife by Louis Armstrong 1966 Land of 1000 dances by Wilson Pickett 1969 Revolution by The Beatles 1977 & 1982 Staying Alive by the BeeGees 1985 Thriller by Michael Jackson 1995 Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana 2000 Music by Madonna 2006 Some random song that represents The CW "If you know the name of the other songs feel free to let me know and I'll edit this"

[@marcelparker6755]

Rock Hits??

[@cutemimi25]

@@marcelparker6755 That's what Shazam claims.

[@marcelparker6755]

@@cutemimi25 It's by Nirvana.

[@cutemimi25]

@@marcelparker6755 Thanks.

[@marcelparker6755]

@@cutemimi25 No problem.

[@TVNewsMan4TVNewsMan4]

This was the first coup;le nights Jim Watkins kept calling CW 11, "WB 11" by accident. It was funny to see Kaity Tong correct him

[@Nevalster]

Farewell The WB And CW11

[@wtcvidman]

I remember seeing this the night it aired & being mad that I didn't tape it. Thanks for posting it. I'm glad they got back to calling it WPIX and/or PIX. I loved their old Shocktober promos and put up several myself.

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

The CW's popularity waxes and wanes fifteen after the UPN/WB merger that created the network. One of the reason's behind the network's success in later years is some of the shows aired on the network were based on DC Comics superhero properties, including The Flash and Supergirl.

[@johnissoevil]

I always felt that the frog should've been retained for the CW. Have something that represents both companies that own the network, Michigan wearing a jacket that has the CBS eye on it.

[@IdeaBox-dk5vj]

"Michigan J. Frog wearing a jacket that has the CBS eye on it." Can someone, even you, PLEASE make an ident with this in mind? And yes, I do enjoy it!

[@IdeaBox-dk5vj]

@SuperHankinsBros Cool! Can you send me a link to your drawing?

[@r3n3gad33]

"One thing that remains the same is the award winning news cast like this one." And reruns of old Pokemon movies regardless if the show itself doesn't air on English speaking broadcasts networks (Unimas still airs the anime to this day)

[@ScroogeKamaziMD]

Wait, Unimas was airing anime...but how

[@rudyiraheta80]

@@ScroogeKamaziMD now pikachu is on telexitos from telemundo sundays

[@mguymario]

Disney XD airs the anime on in the us with Netflix US doing the later seasons and movies starting with Jurneys and Telatoon airing the anime in canada

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

@@rudyiraheta80 stop trolling with your constant misinformation omg 😡😡😡

[@JuanSplatedUp]

@@TracyGJacksonTV pokemon was airing on telexitos though

[@LOLMAN9538]

WOW You even caught the tail end of the ending of the ''Dawson's Creek'' pilot with the Columbia/Tristar TV logo. 0._.0

[@RaginRonic]

Those were the studio credits for the show, that the WB Network never had on their air, due to WB having their own version of show credits air. =P

[@ElectricYangNYC]

WPIX is the only CW affiliate not owned by either Time Warner or CBS, and the only NYC station that is not owned and operated by any affiliation (Tribune Broadcasting owns WPIX since 1948). WPIX is the CW's flagship station by name only! It is cool what they did for that night!

[@robjackson5245]

Hahah that says something the shitty flagship was not a Warner Bros.-owned stations. The WB, period, was not Warner Bros.ish.

[@rhapsodyshadow_]

This didn't age well at all. Nexstar, which purchased Tribune's assets in 2019, purchased a 75% stake in ownership of The CW. Therefore, despite Mission Broadcasting owning WPIX, it's still, for all intents and purposes, operated by Nexstar, making WPIX the _de facto_ flagship station of The CW.

[@robjackson5245]

@@rhapsodyshadow_ Yet he has 9 upvotes. And you don't.

[@rhapsodyshadow_]

@@robjackson5245 And that matters why?

[@robjackson5245]

@rhapsodyshadow_ because there's nothing Warner Bros.ish about that unpopular second rate two bit network. UPN stomped it in the ratings.

[@RobTFirefly]

I feel old for remembering as many of these as I do. Thanks for posting this!

[@tmf1977]

WOW! I grew up during the 80's and I remember 11 Alive when I was a little kid. Thank you for uploading this.

[@CubsFan2812]

Wow!!! This was really cool! Such an awesome flashback! Definatley the coolest thing ive seen a TV station do!

[@r3n3gad33]

It's sad they didn't put a blink-182 song when the 2000 logo showed up.

[@cutemimi25]

Instead it was Madonna and I agree.

[@anikamathur02]

@@cutemimi25 music was released on 2000

[@SkeletonHug]

WPIX FOR LIFE!

[@nawafalsalehstudios1991]

0:06 History Of WPIX

[@syxepop]

WPIX-11 New York, WGN-9 Chicago, KWGN-2 Denver (now under a Fox-affiliate "lease") and KTLA 5-Los Angeles are all CW stations owned by Tribune, as the Company also owned when Tribune was part-owner of the WB broadcast network (which is not the case w/CW, which is owned by TWX and CBS).

[@dp1824]

dont forget kiah

[@DeanOrbong]

4 TV stations are part of Nexstar Media Group.

[@Cosmicles]

Remember this like yesterday

[@TimothyMischka]

I'm suprised that they didn't plaster (or cover up a logo) the Columbia Tristar Television logo. Maybe Sony nicely unplastered it to serve as nostalgia. It WAS The WB's final night, after all.

[@MrSamer83]

WB 4 Ever!!!

[@timbartschwolfman]

When they showed the WPIX 11 logo with Nervana's Smell Like Teen Spirit I thought of also DDP's Theme Self High Five 🙌💎

[@tapests]

This IS cool. I mean, when was the last time you saw another television station do this every time that they changed networks

[@superpan218]

Truly a touching tribute.

[@kingjayprod]

When my wyma my40 used to be thewb and it did this

[@calebs.8778]

Loved their 9/11 coverage

[@TheRacingGenius88]

Oh.....

[@peterfinnfilms]

@mrderekevan The CW is a newish network that was formed in 2006 when the WB and UPN merged. CW stands for CBS-Warner Bros. CBS owned UPN, and Warner Bros. owned the WB.

[@SpamNapkin]

that was pretty awesome.

[@SydneyJeanFilms]

Staying alive is my favorite song

[@dillonpurcell4549]

sm network Me Too! And I Was Not Expecting That!

[@vetmar41]

Mack The Knife - Bertolt Brecht Land Of 1000 Dances - Wilson Pickett Revolution - The Beatles Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees Thriller - Michael Jackson Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana Music - Madonna

[@justanormalcommenter1409]

@LolliesOfficial Yeah, we're satanic it's the law

[@ftjm69]

LolliesOfficial nah, that’s will.i.am, or the Black Eyed Peas

[@ramyoutubechannel7440]

Typical question: If both WB & UPN were still around today, would they still be makin shows?

[@wturner777]

That's a good question. I know UPN suffered the most because it's not available in all markets. For instance, in my area we finally have a UPN station the final two seasons.

[@ramyoutubechannel7440]

Oh that's great

[@cesarcueto1995]

If they were still around then yes they probably make shows. That's what they used to do

[@robjackson5245]

@@wturner777 UPN didn't suffer anything idiot. They were more popular than The WB. *rolls eyes*. The Emmy establishment favored CBS and The WB and to a lesser extent ABC over the other networks, but that's an indication of jealousy not popularity.

[@juliusdeguzman8649]

1948 Mack the Knife by Louis Armstrong 1966 Land of 1000 dances by Wilson Pickett 1969 Revolution by The Beatles 1977 & 1982 Staying Alive by the BeeGees 1985 Thriller by Michael Jackson 1995 Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana 2000 Music by Madonna 2006 Here I Come by Fergie

[@DeAngeloStevens]

WTTO in Birmingham/Homewood will forever be "WB 21".

[@Rockerchick86]

It doesn't matter, it's still WPIX to me.

[@boxepic]

ngl CW's theme is good, and awesome. why dont they use this in 2022?

[@JMFabiano]

Last thing the WB showed was the Boxes of Boredom.

[@imfraeglasgow]

The WB was chanell 11 down here in south Florida. Never realized that the CW was a combo of WB and UPN. Now I know what happened to UPN lol.

[@MarcosPerez-xt3zu]

the CW and MyNetwork TV

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

The CW was the merger of The WB and CBS. MyNetworkTV was created by FOX to fill in the gaps left by the CW merger on many former UPN and WB affiliates that did not affiliate with The CW.

[@claudiagutierrez453]

Funny English auto generated subtitles lol "WPIX New York Channel 11 on your die" "a little show you know" "like a chance" "connecting with everybody so all y'all could join the party now be free to be yourself with a seat open"

[@SuperAV21]

I recall watchin' that piece of WPIX's logo history rite after da piolt ep of Dawson's Creek end'd. I turn'd 18 11 days prior 2 the WB's last nite on national TV.

[@rageoftheredphoenix]

I still prefer the Wb11 over the Cw11.

[@ilmamartinez522]

I preferred it when WPIX was independent. In other words, I'd prefer it if it was just PIX, WPIX, or PIX11. No WBs or CWs of any kind.

[@doyallsellcrablegs]

@@ilmamartinez522 except they’d have no good content to air

[@ilmamartinez522]

@@doyallsellcrablegs I guess?

[@Sen0rDragon]

@@ilmamartinez522 they just call it pix11 now

[@wturner777]

@@Sen0rDragon Which is still The CW affiliate.

[@toonsterztrolldroadto3002]

0:06 the start of timeline of WPIX

[@japhr6814]

It was a bad transformation from the WB11 to the CW11

[@cutemimi25]

I thought Seattle's WB to My Q2 "now JoeTV" was bad, My network TV is worse than CW, either way still bad transformation "some areas WB turns into My Network TV and UPN turns into CW, others UPN turns into My Network TV and WB turns into CW"

[@wayvescape]

cutemimi25 my wb station turned into Cw33

[@cutemimi25]

DishFTW DirectvFTL I live in Idaho now, my local CW station used to be a WB station.

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

I live in Green Bay, Wisconsin where our Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned CW affiliate WCWF "CW 14" was originally a Northeastern Wisconsin Christian Television affiliate WSCO from 1984 to 1987, the station went dark from 1987-1993, it later became a satellite of WVCY-TV 40 (VCY America) from 1993 to 1997, then an inTV affiliate from 1997-1998, then PAX O&O WPXG from 1998-June 2, 1999 when the WB took over the primary affiliation as WIWB "WB 14" with a secondary PAX TV affiliation, airing PAX programming during mornings, weekends, and overnight whenever The WB was off the air until 2004. WIWB would become a CW affiliate in 2006. After being acquired by LIN Media from ACME in 2010, WIWB would relocate to the studios of WLUK-TV "FOX 11" on Lombardi Avenue, and a short time later change its calls to WCWF.

[@steadfastcoward]

The Coyote could have told them, never buy from ACME.

[@newman58352]

Omg i remember when i ws watching UPN and wwe smackdown went off and then... it went black! Then it switches over to local programming called WPWR-50 and it was that ever since. I think MyNetworkTV took the slot and The CW took The WB's slot though

[@TheDatabaseNetwork]

Funny, cause WWE SmackDown would eventually air for a while on The CW as well as MyNetworkTV.

[@tapthatt2012]

i remeber seeing that series of logos on the wpix 60th anniversary show.

[@rockvilleraven]

The WB stood for "Why Bother?"

[@d.w.thomson-granata1144]

As opposed to... Warner Bros.

[@robjackson5245]

Yup it was a shitty pseudo-Warner Bros. network

[@user-qo3ob8ks8o]

this happened 10 years ago!

[@user-qo3ob8ks8o]

This comment was posted 10 months ago!

[@maxHeadroom325rayxerin]

this reply was posted now ok also btw rosanne make me a sandwich

[@ramyoutubechannel7440]

R.I.P. WB

[@ramyoutubechannel7440]

I'm fucked up, same with UPN

[@d.w.thomson-granata1144]

The CW is a merger of the best entertainment from "The WB" Network and "UPN". Why complain about it? Dare to Defy.

[@TajmirTheRandomFan]

The Dare to Defy slogan didn’t come out until 2017 or 2016 or 2018.

[@wturner777]

@@d.w.thomson-granata1144 The network stopped airing sitcoms a while ago, but rely on local affiliates to air reruns for syndication.

[@RowanRoblox614]

Wille I saw nev's comment that he said farewell wb11 and cw11 that he comment 1 year ago since 2020

[@Vic_T_234]

Wow! Y'all's did it differently than they did here. It's still cw here where I live.

[@mariomejia8809]

I prefer The WB as the 5th Network over The CW as the 5th Network, Change My Mind

[@evanellis]

@Skibibbles You mean the circle 11 Alive logo? Yeah, it's funny how that's only on the part where the logos are pulling out.

[@Ryan_Christopher]

Didn’t have cable TV from 2005 onwards and OTA reception for Channel 11 was always faint in all the places I lived. I didn’t know WB and UPN were gone until the Digital OTA transition in 2007. Even then my Converter Box could only get NBC, PBS, and maybe Fox. I didn’t know what that weird CW was and why my Star Trek shows were no longer on reruns anywhere. Like the next time I saw ST:TOS Remastered was in 2010.

[@cartoonmusicandfilm]

@HulkieD what was the song that was put on the WPIX Logo of 1966 in this video?TELL ME NOW!

[@wmbrown6]

The "Tv/11" logo dated 1966 was actually introduced in 1963.

[@mintel63thecreator]

Warner Bros: *ARE YOU F**KING KIDDING ME*

[@radiofreejoanie]

Aww they threw in MJ!

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

I miss MJ too! His music will live on after his death on June 25, 2009.

[@ilmamartinez522]

@@Justin-Hill-1987 Cause of Michael Jackson's death: Cardiac arrest

[@King-oy4or]

Now I now where the europeanNetwork RTL II (the World outside the US reads it as a two rather than Eleven) got it‘s logo from.

[@JazzFan76]

It started out by playing Louis Armstrong's Mack the Knife

[@blueberrybluetube1955]

In the east coast, they will be Mega Washington.

[@es-uw8cm]

if it bleeds, it leads.

[@erics.czernecki7333]

Yeah especially since it's online.

[@TajmirTheRandomFan]

With TheWB & UPN Gone, TheCW Was Launched, With Kids WB! Being moved to TheCW.

[@kingjayprod]

Okay also uhhh

[@jakemidass]

end of the wb

[@Skibibbles]

Did anybody here notice that there was an extra 11 Alive logo snuck in(from the mid 80's) in the end as all the logos are pulling out?

[@kingjayprod]

Ye

[@LisaTherobloxer]

I love "staying ailve"

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Loved it to death!

[@thomashernandez6536]

...to death, eh?

[@TheBrooklynbodine]

Yeah, I guess so, despite it being an overused phrase and maybe not the best choice of words.@@thomashernandez6536

[@fernandoifill-ruiz6410]

WPIX should’ve kept the WB11 and the WB Television Network because it’s better than the CW or PIX11.

[@blakewilson8654]

the reason they didnt keep it is because the WB was ment to shutdown that year to make way for the CW

[@VividMoments2002]

the beginning of the end

[@peterfinnfilms]

@Yesh628 It's "Revolution" by The Beatles.

[@franciscoramos8244]

14 years ago my mom See that in September 17 2006 my mom is in New York

[@doorthechalk1447]

WB has significance, it's the title for classic cartoons, CW has no significance

[@robjackson5245]

It's The WB, not WB, and there was nothing significant about a third-rate network that failed to topple UPN in the ratings XD

[@bluenowait]

Does anyone have the music WPIX would use for Yankees games? My mom's been looking everywhere!

[@superkeegan9100]

0:55 OH SCREW THIS! I'M CHANGING THE CHANNEL!!!

[@vincenzopenn6168]

Pix11

[@knockingscreen9512]

changes channel to tbs

[@darklethal3517]

@LolliesOfficial f**k (the one was my old acc)

[@walterreyesproductions]

changes channel to channel 9 (MNTV) (My9)

[@TheStationPlayer]

SCREW WSFL! IM CHANGING THE CHANNEL TO? WBFS!

[@maisonenfant6119]

The beatles evolution

[@The_X-PO_Center]

It's been months since Nexstar bought out Paramount and Warner Bros's shares of The CW... Things haven't been the same since...

[@ajquann5037]

what song was it fron the 1995 segment

[@anarchytheangel346]

Smells Like Teen Spirit

[@RaymondGarzaYT]

WPIX Became The CW In 2006 as well as KDAF In Dallas-Fort Worth, KTLA in Los Angeles, KPLR in St Louis, KNVA In Austin, KHCW (Now KIAH) in Houston, WDCW in Washington, WNUV in Baltimore, WSFL In Miami, and others stations that The WB affiliates became The CW

[@rudyiraheta80]

kdaf is my network dual with the cw

[@RaymondGarzaYT]

@@rudyiraheta80 NO!

[@RaymondGarzaYT]

@@rudyiraheta80 OMG KDAF Was the CW and my network TV was on KDFI

[@rudyiraheta80]

@@RaymondGarzaYT kdfi is not the only tribune station to be correct kstw was tribune wb

[@RaymondGarzaYT]

@@rudyiraheta80 KSTW IS UPN NOT THE WB

[@ericm242910]

What was the song on the 1966 logo?

[@ericm242910]

@@GalootWithaSnoot905 good job thank you

[@notnok5595]

1:01

[@GaryTurbo]

(0:40) Self high five

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

"CW 11" is now "PIX 11"

[@rudyiraheta80]

what channel is kcop

[@wturner777]

@@rudyiraheta80 Here's the answer to your question: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCOP-TV

[@ramyoutubechannel7440]

KCOP is in Los Angeles, and it's named KCOP My 13

[@rudyiraheta80]

wpix became a cw affiliate, not only they were the strongest station in the city, it's due to upns wwor being owned by fox, and became my network, since united tv became fox in 2000.

[@RaymondGarzaYT]

THANKS YOU DIDNT SAY WPIX IS A UPN AFFILATE HOWEVER WPIX USE TO HAVE THE WB

[@rudyiraheta80]

@@RaymondGarzaYT wpix was not upn & new york city is not dual with the angels kcop is upn not dual both upn & wb were assign on a female # frequency

[@rudyiraheta80]

@@RaymondGarzaYT in houston had a viacom upn affiliate until 02 when it was traded for united television now fox

[@RowanRoblox614]

Rudy I saw nev's comment that he said farewell wb11 and cw11

[@rudyiraheta80]

@@RowanRoblox614 houston's & dallas' & tacoma's wb11

[@ericsamuelson5656]

UPN and The WB went dead at age 11

[@Dave102693]

For reals.

[@ericm242910]

What was the song on the 1995 logo?

[@MrSamer83]

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

[@Shanali-ry1nl]

Eddie Miller Stop with the Darude Sandstorm joke, will you?!

[@gradydearingfamilyguardian92]

I was born during the grudge rock era, that was Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana

[@chutefan2011]

Fact: WPIX rebranded is pix 11 a few years after the CW which introduced

[@ericm242910]

figured it out, its a song by Nirvana

[@joshpritt2146]

I was four when the WB ended it's final night and the CW happened at that time and this was before I turned five on October 2nd, 2006. Sorry for the confusion

[@Dave102693]

Same

[@HailAnts]

I lived in the Hudson Valley NY so I grew up on WPIX channel 11. Mostly for _Star Trek_ reruns in the 70s, as well as _The Honeymooners_ and Yankee baseball. Also had WNEW channel 5 (before they became Fox anchor WNYW) and WWOR channel 9. Channel 9 was never as good as 11 or 5. They had the Mets and lots of Godzilla movies. By the time cable was around they eventually became UPN and ch. 11 The WB..

[@robjackson5245]

You dumbass. WWOR had all the hit shows, "TNG," "DS9," "Downey," "Bey," and UPN was more popular than The WB. *rolls eyes in disrespect* "The Richard Bey Show" stomped anything on channel 11 XD And I'm reviving UPN and creating WB (no "The" before "WB," no Tribune, no frog, no "dubba," "dubba," "dubba"). No one misses The WB or any Tribune crap.

[@NYCKNP]

And now The CW could be going away as both WarnerMedia and ViacomCBS are planning to sell The CW

[@rickymarcial571]

*to Nexstar Media Group which operates KTLA 5 in Los Angles and WPIX 11 in New York. and on October 4, 2022, Nexstar's acquisition of CW's majority ownership is officially closed.

[@ericm242910]

WGN-TV in Chicago is also owned by Tribune Brodcasting, and neither Time Warner or CBS.

[@MrSamer83]

Both PIX 11 and WGN are owned by Nexstar

[@rudyiraheta80]

@@MrSamer83 so is ktla kiah kdfi kstw wphl watl etc

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

@@rudyiraheta80 for the last time tribune never owned KDFI stop with your constant misinformation omg 😡😡😡😡

[@rudyiraheta80]

don't say is kdaf

[@TracyGJacksonTV]

@@rudyiraheta80 it was KDAF you idiot after Tribune bought Renaissance Communications in March 1997 so just shut your mouth Jesus you’re a dumba***

[@ScroogeKamaziMD]

I wish the Fox network will transform back into The WB (due to the fox shows (except the Simpsons cause there under licensed by Disney) airing on WarnerMedia networks)

[@ShizukuOsakaTV]

Columbia tristar television on wb tv

[@vinniemystery563]

Where is 11 ALIVE logo can they bring it back ??

[@ScenicMirage]

I thought the 2000 logo was the best one.

[@Kevin-xv9pm]

Since I've realized The CW was purchased by Nexstar in 2021, that means the CBS Television Stations group will disaffiliate The CW on those stations by the beginning of Fall 2023.

[@stephenholloway6893]

CBS and Warner each kept an minority ownership of the CW but Nexstar is the majority owner. Similar between Hearst and Disney with ESPN for example with Majority Disney and minority Hearst.

[@Kevin-xv9pm]

@@stephenholloway6893 Yeah, perhaps.

[@Tanzim-Kazi]

And it happened. Under the agreement, Nexstar allowed Paramount to remove the CW affiliation on their stations, so they proceeded. Those stations are now independent.

[@Kevin-xv9pm]

@@Tanzim-Kazi Mm-hmm. And this leads me to one question, Where will The CW go after the CBS-owned stations in those markets ended their 17 year affiliation run with the network.

[@Tanzim-Kazi]

@@Kevin-xv9pm Here are the list of TV stations that get the CW affiliation::: Sacramento: KMAX to KQCA Bay Area: KBCW (now KPYX) to KRON (O&O) Tampa Bay: WTOG to WTTA (O&O) Atlanta: WUPA to WPCH Detroit: WKBD to WADL Philadelphia: WPSG to WPHL (O&O) Pittsburgh: WPCW (now WPKD) to WPNT Seattle-Tacoma: KSTW to KOMO (subchannel) To be more specific about KOMO Seattle-Tacoma, it's DT2, so there is dual affiliation between The CW and Comet.

[@vincently1995]

2006 = 16 Years Ago

[@WinstonBleubon]

What’s the Music in 0:46

[@sillygoose635]

Music - Madonna

[@LennyReid]

Does anyone know the Freestyle Rap battle show that came on The WB before the Steve Harvey Show? Apparently, it never existed, but I remember what happens but not its name. 2 strangers rap battle off the top, and the crowd, referred to as the party people, yell for a meter, and the winner is decided based on how loud the crowd cheers for them. It was co-hosted by two black dudes. Every time they said "give it up for the party people" they would really pronounce the "p" sound and sit all over the mic 😂 I literally can't find any evidence that the show existed.

[@ramyoutubechannel7440]

The only Hip Hop Music Reality TV Game Show i can think of that came on either WB or UPN is Dance 360 which was hosted by Fredro Starr & Kel Mitchell. But if you talkin bout around the 90's i don't know.

[@davidogara1334]

Warner Bros. 11

[@LisaTherobloxer]

Wb - Why brother ?

[@RaymondGarzaYT]

Bamboo WB dosen't stand for Why Brother it stands for Warner Bros.