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KSWB-TV (Channel 69) is the San Diego, California-based affiliate of The WB television network, and is owned by the Tribune Company. It is carried on Channel 5 on all San Diego-area cable systems, and this reflects on its on-air branding as KSWB 5/69, San Diego's WB.

The station went on the air as KTTY in 1984, as a new independent station serving San Diego. Tribune's broadcasting division purchased the station from local interests in Septemeber 1996, and shortly thereafter changed its call letters to the present KSWB.

The station launched a 10pm local newscast around one year later, to counter-program against rival KUSI (Channel 51) and the start-up operation over at XETV (Channel 6). In February 2005, KSWB joined the morning news race, with launching The WB Morning News, which included reports and segments from the morning news program carried on its Los Angeles sister station, KTLA.