The CW Plus

The CW Plus

Type	Syndicated programming service
Country	United States
Broadcast area	National (available only in smaller television markets)
Network	The CW
Affiliates	(see section)
Headquarters	Los Angeles, California
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i or 720p (HDTV) (resolution varies depending on the affiliate)
Timeshift service	The CW Plus East The CW Plus Mountain The CW Plus Pacific (available as -1 timeshift for Alaska)
Ownership
Owner	Nexstar Media Group (75%) CBS Entertainment Group (Paramount Global) (12.5%) Warner Bros. Discovery (12.5%)
Parent	The CW Network, LLC
History
Launched	September 18, 2006; 17 years ago (2006-09-18)
Replaced	The WB 100+ Station Group
Links
Website	cwplustv.com

The CW Plus is a secondary national broadcast television syndication service feed of The CW (which is 75-percent owned by Nexstar Media Group, with Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery each owning 12.5-percent). It is intended primarily for American television markets ranked #100 and above by Nielsen Media Research estimates. The service is primarily carried on digital subchannels and multichannel subscription television providers, although it maintains primary affiliations on full-power and low-power stations in certain markets.

Along with airing the network's prime time, Saturday morning and live sports programming, The CW Plus offers a master schedule of first-run, off-network and brokered programs available for syndication distribution that are acquired by The CW to occupy the remainder of the feed's weekly schedule. The CW handles programming and promotional services for The CW Plus at its corporate headquarters in Burbank, California (marketing services were handled through a separate division for the service until March 2008, when these operations were transferred to The CW's marketing department due to layoffs^[1]); centralcasting operations for the CW Plus affiliates are hubbed at the California Video Center in Los Angeles.