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{{quote|''To be honest, [[Biting the Hand Humor|I didn't even know I had a network!]]''|'''[[John Cena]]''', ''[[WWE]] [[WWE Smackdown|Friday Night SmackDown!]]''}}
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MyNetworkTV is 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
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''.
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