UPN & The WB Merging

For years UPN and The WB have been struggling to make it on their own as networks. Each network has a handful of shows that are worth watching and two handfulls of shows not worth watching. In an effort to make themselves more profitable they have decided to merge into one network, taking the best of each network and scrapping the rest. This would presumably allow them to get a larger marketshare and perhaps become more profitable as networks, not to mention get rid of a whole lot of shows that are not worth watching. Here is the press release and here is CNN's report on the merger. As long as they don't cut Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars I'll be happy.