In an attempt to attract viewers, MyNetworkTV added a mixture of reality programming, movies, and WWE SmackDown. Heavy local sports preemptions were previously a problem for MyNetworkTV at its launch, as they were for all of the U.S. broadcast networks that have debuted since the January 1995 launches of The WB and UPN.
Dateline; Dateline/Law & Order: CI Thursdays; Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Games; Locate a Station. That way WOR Ch.

The first Smackdown! In August 2006, MyNetworkTV filled in its remaining gaps within the top 100 television markets. Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life), I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! It would have given FOX too much competition.

CW affiliate KCWI-TV picked up the local rights to SmackDown, and for nearly a year afterward, aired it in a manner very similar to its scheduling on WLMT. This was most evident in Lexington, Kentucky, where local SmackDown viewers actually protested that they could not watch the program because low-powered MyNetworkTV/Retro Television Network affiliate WBLU-LP lacked carriage on cable providers in the market, and as an Equity Media Holdings station with no local presence outside of engineering staff, had no communication with the station to speak of.

[46], On April 12, 2010, WWE announced that WWE SmackDown would move to the Syfy cable channel that October; the move left MyNetworkTV with no first-run programming other than that it shared with its syndicators. On September 28, 2009, three stations owned by Ion Media Networks (WPXX-TV in Memphis, Tennessee and WEPX-TV, along with satellite station WPXU-TV, in the Greenville-New Bern-Washington, North Carolina market), due to an affiliation agreement made by their previous owners, dropped their MyNetworkTV affiliations to become full-time Ion Television owned-and-operated stations as they had been prior to September 2006 (the affiliation in the Greenville-New Bern market was taken over by NBC affiliate WITN-TV, which carries the network on a digital subchannel). Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Chicago P.D.

Required fields are marked *. MNT in my area is a combined MNT/MeTV affiliate and is a subchannel for both NBC and CBS affiliates. The most recent ratings information I can find is almost two years old. There’s no way to know how that translates to total viewers. For several years, UPN had affiliation gaps in several of the top 30 markets, and by 2005 managed to reach only 86% of the population. From MyNetworkTV's launch through September 19, 2009.


Initially, programming aired Monday through Saturdays from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific Time). The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons – Ever!

[12] It was reported by The Guardian that Fox would utilize MySpace, the social networking website its parent company, News Corporation, had acquired in 2005, to help promote MyNetworkTV.


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