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[[File:mjfrog1.jpg|frame|Kiss the frog, baby.]]
{{quote|''OK, everybody, it's time for a song from the little network with a really big sign!''|'''Michigan J. Frog''' at the beginning of a music video promoting the network}}
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A joint venture between Time Warner and Tribune Company. As [[Follow the Leader|a reaction to the success]] of the fledgling [[FOX]] network, TW launched their own network in 1995, with Tribune's then-independents (WPIX in [[New York]], KTLA in [[Los Angeles]], WGN in [[Chicago]], etc.) serving as the network's nucleus. This network was rolled up with [[UPN]] to form a new network called [[The CW]] in 2006, with The WB's final primetime block, ''A Night Of Farewells And Favorites'', airing on September 17, 2006.
 
The network is remembered differently depending on how old you are. If you were a kid in the mid-'90s, you may fondly remember The WB as the host network for ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' after it was acquired from [[FOX]], along with other [[Steven Spielberg]]-helmed [[Saturday Morning Cartoon|Saturday morning cartoons]] such as ''[[Freakazoid!]]'' and the ''Animaniacs'' spin-off ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]''. If you were a kid in the late '90s and early 2000s, you remember it for pretty much [[Animation Age Ghetto|selling out Saturday mornings]] to [[Four Kids4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids]]. Those who were teenagers during the late '90s or early 2000s will remember it for giving the world such [[Teen Drama|teen dramas]] as ''[[Seventh Heaven|7th Heaven]]'', ''~[[Dawson's Creek~]]'', and ''[[Everwood]]'' -- shows that the network is, without a doubt, most famous for. Still others (teenagers and genre fans alike) remember the network for ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Roswell]]'' until those two series were picked up -- perhaps ironically, in hindsight -- by UPN (The WB still held onto ''[[Angel]]'' at least). And of course, the network churned out quite a bit of [[Sit ComSitcom]] and particularly [[Dom Com]] flavored shows during its life.
 
And of course, many still remember it for reducing [[One Froggy Evening Cartoon|Michigan J. Frog]] into a cheap corporate shill for the network (to the point where some TV writers referred to The WB as "The Frog") until the frog quietly exited the stage from advertisements and promotions during the last two years of the network's life (though his image was [[Tear Jerker|one of the last transmitted by the network]]; the last thing shown was the end credits of the pilot episode of ''[[DawsonsDawson's Creek]]'').
 
LatelyUntil 2013, The WB has been rebornexisted as [http://www.thewb.com/ an online network], airing both older shows (including most of their old teen dramas) and original programming.
 
'''Shows featured on The WB included:'''
* ''[[Seventh7th Heaven]]''
* ''[[Angel]]''
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
* ''[[Charmed]]''
* ''[[DawsonsDawson's Creek]]''
* ''[[Do Over]]''
* ''[[Everwood]]''
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* ''[[Grounded for Life]]''
* ''[[Jack and Bobby]]''
* ''[[The Jamie Kennedy Experiment]]''
* ''[[The Jamie Foxx Show]]''
* ''[[Kirk]]''
* ''[[Like Family]]''
* ''[[Living With Fran]]''
* ''[[Mission Hill]]''
* ''[[Nick Freno Licensed Teacher]]''
* ''[[One Tree Hill]]''
* ''[[The Parent 'Hood]]''
* ''[[Pepper Dennis]]''
* ''[[Popular]]''
* ''[[Reba]]''
* ''[[Related]]''
* ''[[Roswell]]''
* ''[[Run Of The House]]''
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'': Acquired from ABC, Last few seasons ran on WB.
* ''[[Safe Harbor (TV series)|Safe Harbor]]''
* ''[[Savannah]]''
* ''[[Sister, Sister]]'': (Likewise)
* ''[[Smallville]]''
* ''[[Smart Guy (TV series)|Smart Guy]]''
* ''[[The Army Show]]''
* ''[[The Bedford Diaries]]''
* ''[[The Help]]''
* ''[[The O'Keefe's]]''
* ''[[The Steve Harvey Show]]''
* ''[[Twins]]''
* ''[[Unhappily Ever After]]''
* ''[[The Wayans Bros]]''
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'''Shows featured on [[Kids WB|Kids' WB!]] included:'''
* ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]''
* ''[[Batman Beyond]]''
* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptors]]''
* ''[[Detention]]''
* ''[[Earthworm Jim (Animationanimation)|Earthworm Jim]]''
* ''[[Freakazoid (Animation)|Freakazoid!]]''
* ''[[Histeria (Animation)|Histeria!]]''
* ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]''
* ''[[Loonatics Unleashed (Animation)|Loonatics Unleashed]]''
* ''[[Mega Man NT Warrior]]''
* ''[[Men in Black (Animationanimation)|Men in Black]]: [[Recycled: Thethe Series|The Series]]''
* ''[[Mucha Lucha]]''
* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|The New Batman Adventures]]'' (with reruns of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'')
* ''[[Pinky and The Brain (Animation)|Pinky and The Brain]]''
* ''[[Pokémon]]''
* ''[[Road Rovers (Animation)|Road Rovers]]''
* ''[[Static Shock]]''
* ''[[Superman: theThe Animated Series]]''
* ''[[The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries]]''
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures (Animation)|Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' reruns
* ''[[Waynehead]]''
* ''[[X -Men: Evolution]]''
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''
* ''[[The Zeta Project]]''
 
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