KSWB-TV
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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. They offer local news, sitcoms, cartoons from Kids WB, talk, court and reality shows.
The station went on the air as KTTY in 1984, as a new independent station serving San Diego. They had a general entertainment format feauring dramas, old movies, cartoons, and religious programming that was passed on by other stations. They also broadcast a great deal of paid programming. They continued to be a low rated independent station until 1995 when they became an affiliate of the WB network.
Tribune's broadcasting division purchased the station from local interests in Septemeber 1996, and shortly thereafter changed its call letters to the present KSWB and added many off-network sitcoms to the schedule. Throughout the rest of the 90s, talk and court shows were mixed into the schedule.
The station launched a 10pm local newscast around one year later, to counter-program against rival KUSI-TV (Channel 51) and the start-up operation over at XETV (Channel 6). In March 2005, KSWB joined the morning news race, launching The WB Morning News, which is made up of the morning news program carried on its Los Angeles sister station and WB-flagship, KTLA-TV with periodic updates from San Diego.