If you notice a change in the usual Dr. Phil and local news-centric programming at KRON 4 tonight, don't worry, you aren't going crazy; the channel is.
Since the WB and UPN have merged to create the CW (all country and western music, all the time!) many former affiliate stations are adopting Fox's new network, MyNetworkTV. (Why KRON 4, which was neither a UPN or a WB affiliate, is adopting this new network remains a little perplexing.) The programming on this new network is apparently being modeled after the popular Latin American programming found on such stations as Telemundo, specifically, telenovelas. Hence we have such nightly soaps as "Fashion House" starring Bo Derek and Morgan Fairchild, and "Desire" starring people a lot younger than Bo and Morgan, (including former mayoral flame Sofia Milos!) What makes telenovelas different from the usual soaps is they aren't open-ended, and the series on MyNetwork TV look to be concluding after 13 weeks, after which new "stories" will take their place.
We've got enough new shows coming at us in the next month, we don't think we can devote the time needed to watch these new nightly programs, so thankfully, on Saturday nights--a virtual TV wasteland that no network can seem to be bothered with programming--MyNetwork TV plans to air hour-long weekly recaps! We love that idea. Why can't daily soaps like "Passions" have weekend recaps?
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It's probably worth noting that all the shows are produced by Fox. So it's sort of like KRON becomes, for two hours every night, a Fox affiliate.
Well, the whole thing is weird. Like I mentioned, MyNetwork TV is *a* Fox network (but it doesn't share any programming with "Fox" or "F/X"), but it's really only in existence because the WB and UPN merged, and those networks have nothing to do with Fox. One would think the CW would have tried to come up with some lame network of their own to give to some of their former affliates, but no. And KRON has previously had nothing to do with the WB, UPN, Fox or CBS (which is the CW's granddaddy).
For the record, KBHK TV 44 (cable ch. 12) will be the local CW channel, while KBWB TV 20, (nee KOFY, on cable ch. 13) is, basically, a station full of repeats calling itself "Your TV20."