WB Network programming on Canadian over-the-air broadcasters (1998)

[Justin Hill]

WIWB 14 (now WCWF 14) of Green Bay, Wisconsin, licensed to Suring, Wisconsin, was late to the party. They started out as Pax TV owned and operated station WPXG-TV 14 before switching to The WB (with Pax TV programs still airing overnight) on June 2nd, 1999.

Before June 2nd, WACY-TV 32, the local UPN affiliate licensed to Appleton, Wisconsin, was a secondary affiliate of The WB network, airing Kids' WB, daytime and primetime programming from that network alongside UPN, local and syndicated programming.

WACY-TV 32 even aired an all-day childrens' block in the mid-late 1990s known as "Wacky 32," consisting of programming from UPN Kids, Kids' WB, BKN and syndication, which also included E/I compliant programs. They also aired the Pokemon anime in first-run syndication in 1998 before the broadcasting rights were picked up by Kids' WB in 1999. When WIWB, channel 14 became The WB on June 2nd, WACY-TV 32's Wacky 32 childrens' block lost a significant amount of programming to the new network.

 

[JosephHolloway1998]

Well pardon me for reviving this thread, but although a majority of Canadians produce their own programming & content. CBC, CTV and Global would sometimes have programming "cherry-picked" from the six major American networks (including The WB).

 

[harshness]

Well pardon me for reviving this thread, but although a majority of Canadians produce their own programming & content. CBC, CTV and Global would sometimes have programming "cherry-picked" from the six major American networks (including The WB).

It would probably surprise you to learn that some of those programs were produced in Canada.

 

[JosephHolloway1998]

It would probably surprise you to learn that some of those programs were produced in Canada.

Which ones? though La Femme Nikita was Canadian-produced, it aired on USA Network (which was the cable alternative to the broadcast networks back then) in the States.

 

[harshness]

The Pretender (NBC) is perhaps the biggest one.

Due South (CBS).
Student Bodies (Fox, Saved by the Bell rip-off)

 

[JosephHolloway1998]

The Pretender (NBC) is perhaps the biggest one.

Due South (CBS).
Student Bodies (Fox, Saved by the Bell rip-off)

But what about The Pretender's (NBC) sister show Profiler?

 

[Justin Hill]

For those who are wondering, the Pokemon anime began in first-run syndication, airing on various Fox, The WB and UPN stations (plus one independent station, channel 5 in Wichita, Kansas) in the United States in late 1998. The following year, the rights to air the Pokemon anime have been picked up by The WB, in anticipation of the full-length theatrical film coming out on November 19, 1999. While this was all going on stateside, in Canada, the Pokemon anime aired on cable network YTV.