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{{quote|''To be honest, [[Biting the Hand Humor|I didn't even know I had a network!]]''|'''[[John Cena]]''', ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] [[WWE Smackdown|Friday Night SmackDown!]]''}}
Welcome to the [[Butt Monkey]] of American network television.
'''MyNetworkTV'''
MNTV started off pretending to be a legit network (some stations even changed their callsigns to reflect their new affiliation), airing [[Foreign Remake|English-language versions]] of popular Latin American ''[[Soap Opera|telenovelas]]'' [[Prime Time Soap|five nights a week]]. Try as they might, nothing could get people to watch these shows — most American viewers saw them as trashy and poorly-made even by the low standards of American [[Soap Opera
After a year, the ''telenovela'' block faded into the mists along with anything resembling a point, with early promises to program imported or adapted programming from Sky in the UK and [[Fox News]] thrown aside for such [[Sarcasm Mode|illustrious programming]] as ''IFL Battleground'' (a failed attempt to turn [[Mixed Martial Arts]] into a team sport that eventually got eaten up by UFC), [[Lowest Common Denominator|the Ujena Bikini Jam, Hooters pageants]], the Taurus World Stunt Awards, and ''Santa's Funniest Moments'' (really just an hour of home-video Santas [[Groin Attack|being kicked in the chestnuts by kids]]). Thanks to them and Fox Reality, the nation also suffered through a second run of ''Paradise Hotel''.
The network kept limping along, however. Its only major grab was ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] [[WWE Smackdown|Friday Night SmackDown!]]'', the rest of its lineup consisting of [[Reality Show|reality shows]], stage magic (new episodes of ''Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed'' were among the network's better shows), and ''Under One Roof'' (a short-lived [[Sitcom]] starring [[Public Enemy|Flavor Flav]], which was infamous for shooting in Toronto while the [[TV Strikes|2008 writer's strike]] went on). In September 2009, MyNetworkTV officially stopped pretending and became a two-hour [[Syndication|syndicated]] programming block, similar in concept to the short-lived [[PTEN]]. It discontinued all original non-syndicated programming that wasn't ''SmackDown!'' and replaced it with syndicated [[Game Show|game shows]], Thursday-night movies, and reruns of ''[[The Unit]]'' and ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]''. One of its original shows, ''Jail'', got picked up by [[Spike TV]].
In October 2010, ''SmackDown!'' moved to [[
Many of the network's higher-rated stations have begun to shun MNTV and drop all mentions of it, airing the programming in post-Midnight [[Friday Night Death Slot|death slots]] and instead carrying local programming (such as high school and major-league sports) and news in primetime, as they feel comfortable enough to compete without FOX's lack of help to them. However, most of the smaller markets do appreciate MNTV for what it is: a service offering reruns that attract a constant audience who are quite happy to tune in. It helps keeps the stations' lights on in primetime, because the other option's going back to airing movies...which may have worked in the 1990s when [[Netflix]] and Redbox didn't exist, but is now a textbook example of lazy programming. The network will continue at least until the 2014 season, though hopefully it might find a way to get a couple of original programs in here and there by then (and, if so, do well enough to avoid death).
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During Cablevision and Dish Network's disputes over carriage of FOX, most of the pushes were pretty much mentioning everything but the kitchen sink for FOX, FX, and their sports networks...while not one contribution of MNTV was mentioned beyond that it exists (besides [[Did Not Do the Research|lack of research]] from writers who thought ''SmackDown!'' was still on it). This probably earned them a [[Stealth Insult]] when Cablevision announced they put the channels back on, by saying MyNetworkTV was a channel of "little or no interest" to viewers.
The network also has the indignity of being mostly on digital subchannels of big network affiliates in markets as large as Columbus, Ohio (where it is carried on a subchannel of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate WSYX), meaning that it often gets left out of TV listings, won't be in HD in many markets, and isn't rated by Nielsen on a regular basis because of its all-repeat schedule, and may not even be carried by a provider because of lack of any good surrounding programming. In some markets where the other stations have bought off all the good programming, it airs on the same channel as lesser networks such as This TV, Antenna TV, RTV, Me-TV, and Jewelry Television, meaning the only thing leading into primetime is either an ancient sitcom rerun or a "Gem Extravaganza", thus assuring very low ratings.
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