KHON-TV
On October 23, 2006, KHON-TV was announced as the Honolulu affiliate of The CW, carrying the network on its second digital subchannel. Beginning in March 2006 (two months after the network's launch was announced), The CW had struggled to find an affiliate in Honolulu after the market's then-WB affiliate KFVE, which was seen by many as the likeliest candidate to join The CW, signed with competing network MyNetworkTV, and former UPN affiliate KIKU (which aired the network's programming in the afternoons) declined to take the CW affiliation.
KXII
One month later on March 30, Gray Television confirmed KXII as MyNetworkTV's Sherman–Ada market through an agreement that it reached with the Fox Entertainment Group to affiliate seventeen Gray-owned stations with MyNetworkTV (all of which were primary Big Three network affiliates that were committed to carry the network on their digital subchannels). KXII-DT2 remained an affiliate of UPN until September 12, 2006; the subchannel officially joined MyNetworkTV three days later on September 5 (through an agreement with owner Lockwood Broadcast Group, The CW chose to affiliate with KTEN—which carries the network's master feed for smaller markets, The CW Plus, on its DT2 subchannel—when that network debuted on September 18).