As a result, the new CW Plus digital subchannels of KIMA and KEPR became long-term.
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On April 24, 2006, it was announced that KAZW would launch a CW affiliate on digital subchannel 9.2, with programming being provided by The CW Plus.
The fate of the CW in the Bakersfield market remained unknown until just days before The CW was scheduled to launch, when Clear Channel Communications (the owner of KGET at the time) obtained the rights to The CW Plus affiliation for the Bakersfield market on a new digital subchannel of KGET.
It also made Terre Haute one of the only markets in the United States with all three historical commercial broadcast networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) as primary affiliations with the Fox and MyNetworkTV affiliations on a digital subchannel, but lacking an over-the-air affiliate of The CW (which is currently available via CW Plus affiliate "WBI" on area cable providers).
On October 3, 2013, WMAZ-TV announced that it will carry The CW on a new sub-carrier, the new channel was launched on October 14, 2013; also with the launch of WMAZ-DT2, it replaced the cable-only CW Plus affiliate "WBMN" and took its place on Cox Cable channel 3.