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[–]Electronic_Antelope 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Apparently,

CBS chairman Leslie Moonves explained that the name of the new network was formed from the first letters of CBS and Warner Bros, joking, "We couldn't call it the WC for obvious reasons."

Because CW was formed from a union of the WB and UPN (the latter of which was owned by CBS).

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Was awesome too, young bucks might not appreciate that when UPN was created it became something like the 4th channel you could watch over the air, and CW was the fifth. And that is in the 90s.

We've come a long way, baby.