ACME Communications Inc. was a U.S.-based broadcasting company that was involved in operations of television stations and programming from the late 1990s to 2013.
History
ACME Communications was co-founded by chairman and original CEO Jamie Kellner, who previously served as a Fox Broadcasting Company executive and was founding CEO of The WB Television Network. Kellner used the name ACME as a play on the fictional Acme Corporation featured in Warner Bros' Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner animated film series and other Looney Tunes media. In 2000, ACME Communications and Paramount Stations Group entered into a joint partnership. ACME stations would air three hours of UPN programming in three markets (St. Louis, Knoxville, and Champaign, Illinois) where UPN had no affiliate; WB programs would remain as on a secondary basis on Paramount stations in Columbus, Ohio, and Providence, Rhode Island that were switching to UPN, and were added to the UPN station in West Palm Beach.[2]