affiliated with MyNetworkTV on March 7, 2006, along with other Raycom stations in Honolulu and Baton Rouge. WUAB was renamed "CLE 43" on August 24, 2015, as part of a wide-ranging rebranding effort at both it and WOIO, which concurrently adopted the "Cleveland 19" name. The rebranding was done to abandon Raycom's prior "tabloid" reputation with 19 Action News in the Cleveland market. Sale to Gray Television and CW affiliation Raycom agreed to merge their stations, including WOIO and WUAB, with Atlanta-based Gray Television on June 25, 2018, in a cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion (equivalent to $ in ). The sale was completed on January 2, 2019. Shortly after the merger announcement, on July 11, 2018, WUAB signed a long-term affiliation contract with The CW, replacing WBNX-TV. The new WUAB contract took effect on July 16 and occurred several months after a foreclosure process was initiated on WBNX-TV parent Winston Broadcasting Network from Ernest Angley's ministry, putting the future of that station in doubt. At the same time, the affiliation switch displaced MyNetworkTV, which was moved to overnights on WOIO's second digital subchannel. Under Gray ownership, WUAB has increased production of local programming. Beginning on September 9, 2019, the station began carrying same-day repeats of Cribbs in the CLE: Josh and Maria Live, a WOIO lifestyle talk show hosted by former Cleveland Brown Josh Cribbs and wife Maria Cribbs. WUAB added a locally produced B-movie showcase, The Big Bad B-Movie Show, on October 17, 2020. Created as a stopgap in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Big Bad B-Movie also became the first locally produced entertainment program on the station in 30 years. Explaining how the show was greenlit, general manager Erik Schrader told The New York Times, "We asked ourselves, do we show repeats or something creative?" After The CW expanded to Saturday night programming, Big Bad B-Movie was moved to Saturday late nights. During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, WUAB partnered with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) to provide an hour of airtime on weekdays for in-school instructional programming, beginning on April 20, 2020. As part of the arrangement, WUAB also telecast all high school graduations in the district throughout June 2020, which were conducted virtually. CMSD on CW43 ended at the start of the 2022–2023 school year, concurrent with the CMSD relaxing most COVID-19 health protocols and fully resuming normal operations. Programming