Welcome to the Butt Monkey of American network television. 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-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 we
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