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.
KTEN
On April 3, in a joint announcement by the network and Lockwood Broadcast Group, KTEN was confirmed as The CW's charter affiliate for the Sherman-Ada market (channel 10 was the only station out of the three that Lockwood contracted to become CW charter outlets through a deal announced on April 4—the others being WUPV in Richmond, Virginia in WHDF in Huntsville, Alabama, both of which had been UPN affiliates—that chose to carry the network as a subchannel-only affiliation). Lockwood subsequently assumed the operations of "KSHD," which was expected to take over the CW affiliation; it subsequently decided to launch a digital subchannel on KTEN virtual channel 10.2 to provide The CW's programming to Texoma area viewers who do not subscribe to cable television. KTEN-DT2 became an affiliate of The CW through its national feed for small markets, The CW Plus, when the network debuted on September 18, 2006 (three days beforehand, the MyNetworkTV affiliation went to the second digital subchannel of KXII, which originally served as a UPN affiliate from May 1 to September 12, 2006).