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.
KAUZ-TV
On April 10, in a joint announcement by the network and Hoak Media, KAUZ-TV was confirmed as The CW's charter affiliate for the Wichita Falls-Lawton market; Hoak Media subsequently assumed the operations of "KWB," which was expected to take over the CW affiliation, and converted the channel to an over-the-air digital feed on KAUZ-DT 6.2 to provide The CW's programming to Wichita Falls–Lawton area viewers who do not subscribe to cable television; KAUZ-DT2 became an affiliate of the network's small-market feed, The CW Plus, when the network debuted on September 18, 2006.