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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 [[
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 ''[[Dawsons Creek]]'').
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