The WB Television Network launched on this day in 1995. It was a joint venture between Warner Bros. Entertainmen and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company. The network principally aired programs targeting teenagers and young adults between the ages of 12 and 34. As the NY flagship station, WPIX created a campaign of local spots to create buzz for the new network. The creative director at the time wanted to connect with our younger audiences and recruited a group of young adu

Here is a very rare commercial for the historic and elegant Manhattan German restaurant Luchow's, which counted Diamond Jim Brady, Teddy Roosevelt and other notables as among its clientele. When this commercial aired in February 1980, Luchow's was 98 years old, and two years away from moving from its historic home on 14th Street to midtown, where it would last a few more years before vanishing. | WPIX Archives