Following the announcement of the shutdown of UPN (whose programming would be merged with The WB to form The CW), all Fox-owned UPN stations, including WPWR-TV, dropped all UPN references from their on-air branding. WPWR changed its branding to "Power 50 Chicago" (in reference to the station callsign), and adopted a new logo.
2006–2016; 2019–present
2016–2019
WPWR-TV affiliated with The CW on September 1, 2016 which becoming the first Fox owned station to broadcast The CW, but continued to air MyNetworkTV programming as well.
On September 1, 2019, WCIU-TV became the new affiliate of The CW for the Chicago area; after three years, WPWR-TV disaffiliated from the network.[1]
