WUPV's time as WAWB

gokaiblue,

Yes, I was the one that took the snapshot of that WB65 logo for Wikipedia around 2007 from one of my old video tapes from the 1990s. WAWB never aired any newscast.

To my knowledge and research, Pokemon aired on WRLH via tape delay by the owner Sinclair Broadcast Group while the local NBC affiliate WWBT aired selected primetime WB programming replaying during the graveyard hours. All of this came to be when the market's original WB affiliate WAWB was sold and became a UPN affiliate with the calls WUPV owned by Lockwood Broadcast Group. One reason I came up with concerning the network change was to avoid the reverse recompensation sat forth by The WB to its affiliates. I rather prefer WB over UPN but with the lack of available stations in the maket to carry each individual network programming seven days a week made it impossible. The Norfolk-Hampton Roads market had both a standalone WB affiliate and a standalone UPN station. Lockwood Broadcast admitted that they made attempts to prevent a WB station from being built because in my opinion it would have been a major competitor and a threat towards WUPV in the Richmond market. ACME Communications of whom owned several WB-affiliated stations tried to establish a standalone station around 2003 but Lockwood blocked it. I never forgave Lockwood for buying channel 65 out, changing the format/network affiliation and blocking The WB full-time from Richmond. On some good days between 2004 and 2006 with a good antenna and directional points living in Richmond, I did catch some primetime WB programming and some kids shows from WTVZ WB33 in Norfolk when the station was still broadcasting in analog so I did get some satisfaction but it wasn't enough.