If WB ratings aren't better than Tribune's old prime-time movie fare, the company will have wound up trading 73%of its prime-time ad minutes for lousy shows.
Earlier this year, a group of unions called the Change to Win coalition sent letters to a variety of big lenders, including Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ), Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ), Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ), and Wachovia (nyse: WB - news - people ) and WaMu, demanding to know why they hadn't spotted the warning signs in the mortgage markets earlier.