the fox-owned upn affiliates were not included in the upn/wb merger (the cw), which was announced on january 23, 2006. soon after, these stations removed references to upn from their on-air branding and websites. on february 22, 2006, fts announced that all nine of their non-fox outlets will be charter affiliates of a new service known as mynetworktv, which commenced operations on september 5, 2006, with telenovela programming that was original to be syndicated. on may 23, 2016, it was announced that one of the fox-owned former upn affiliates that were left out of the initial negotiations for cw affiliation a decade earlier, mynetworktv owned-and-operated station wpwr in chicago, would be taking over the market's affiliation with the network from rival wgn-tv in september of that year. mynetworktv remains on wpwr as a secondary affiliation.