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Welcome to the [[Butt Monkey]] of American network television.
MyNetworkTV is a quick-fix "network" created by [[
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|Soap Operas]] 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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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 [[Useful Notes/Mixed Martial Arts|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 ''[[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 [[
In October 2010, ''SmackDown!'' moved to [[Sci Fi Channel|Syfy]] and MNTV became the [[Old Shame]] of FOX and the network's affiliates, airing repeats of game shows already in syndication (usually in very low-rated timeslots) and other dramas such as ''[[Burn Notice]]'', ''[[
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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