 WFTY joined The WB on February 20, 1995, six weeks after the network started broadcasting.WJAL (channel 68) in Hagerstown, Maryland was the network's charter affiliate in the Washington market; as WJAL's signal did not reach the core metropolitan area, both stations aired WB programming.As the network provided only a single block on Wednesdays from 8 to 10 p.m. at the time, WFTY ran WB programs on six consecutive weeknights in order to catch up and begin airing the schedule in pattern on March 1.