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Welcome to the [[Butt Monkey]] of American network television.
'''MyNetworkTV''' was a quick-fix "network" created by [[FOX]] in 2006 to fill soon-to-be emptied primetime slots on its [[UPN]] stations (WWOR in New York, KCOP in Los Angeles, etc.). It was created as a rash [[Tantrum Throwing|tantrum-esque]] response to [[The CW]], a merger between [[The WB]] and [[UPN]], due to the fact that FOX's owned-and-operated UPN stations were left out of said deal (though only in cities where Tribune and CBS respectively owned WB and UPN stations and had first dibs; had FOX cooperated, some of their stations without the former condition would've ended up easily top-choice CW affiliates) and in response, FOX petulantly decided to shun all mentions and advertising of UPN until its September 2006 demise. Most of the various WB and UPN affiliates that were left behind by the merger also signed-on with the network.
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]]s and worth watching only as [[Snark Bait]], while English-speaking Latino viewers (the target audience for many of these shows) saw them as inferior versions of what they were already watching ''en español''. In short, everyone thought it sucked. The only markets where the network was barely competitive were [[Los Angeles]] and [[Miami]], but those viewers quickly went away. Only one program, the World Music Awards (which previously set negative ratings records for ABC and FOX), remains from the network's original schedule.
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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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