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Revision as of 04:06, 18 July 2006
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WBSF (Channel 46) is the WB affiliate for the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, Michigan television market. It is operated in conjunction with the NBC affiliate for the region, WEYI, which carries WBSF on its digital signal, channel 30.2 (or 25.2).
Prior to WBSF's opening in 2004, WB programming was seen on WEYI in the early-2000s, mainly in the overnight periods. Before WEYI's involvement began, mid-Michigan had no WB service, other than from Chicago's WGN-TV, when they had WB programming nationwide, prior to 1999.
As of July 2006, the analog signal is not on the air yet. They are targeting an airdate in September 2006. It is, however, seen on cable, as it has been since 2004. The station has also been the Detroit Pistons' Mid-Michigan home since the station's inception; Fellow WB affiliate WMYD Channel 20 in Detroit, along with WDIV "Local4", Detroit's NBC affiliate, became the flagship Pistons stations during the fall of 2004. (Until WBSF was formed, Mid-Michigan viewers watched Pistons games through another Detroit station, WKBD, still carried in the region.)
Like WDWB, WBSF was the last television station in its market to air cartoons on weekday afternoons. Since December 30, 2005, Kids' WB has been shown only on Saturday mornings, its daily block replaced by ER and 8 Simple Rules reruns starting on January 2, 2006 (ER was replaced on the WBSF schedule with What I Like About You reruns on June 5, 2006).
On cable, WBSF is available on channel 15 on Comcast Flint and channel 17 on Charter Tri-Cities systems (channel 26 for Midland viewers and channel 15 for Mount Pleasant viewers).
With the merger of the WB and UPN to become CW, WBSF will become the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City-Midland CW affiliate in the fall of 2006. Because of this, there's a chance that WKBD (which will be the only other analog over-the-air CW affiliate in Michigan) would be dropped from the market's cable systems, as both WBSF and WKBD would affiliate with CW (however, in the case of Midland, two CBS affilliates currently coexist on the same cable system, meaning both stations may coexist on Tri-Cities systems in the future).
It was also announced that the station will change nicknames from "Mid Michigan's WB" to "CW46 Mid Michigan." However, its call letters will be for the forseeable future unchanged, as the "B" in the call letters may also stand for Bay City, the station's city of license. ("S" and "F" stand for Saginaw and Flint, respectively.)