X-Nico

4 unusual facts about WUTB


WUTB

In exchange, Fox received an option to buy any combination of six Sinclair-owned CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates (two of which were standalone stations affiliated with the latter service) in three of four markets: Raleigh (WLFL and WRDC), Las Vegas (KVCW and KVMY), Cincinnati (WSTR-TV) and Norfolk (WTVZ).

Chris-Craft ran the station out of then-sister station WWOR-TV's facilities in Secaucus, New Jersey and fed the station's programming to its transmitter site in Baltimore; this included WWOR's local news coverage of the September 11 attacks.

In January 1998, WNUV dropped its affiliation with UPN in favor of joining The WB; this resulted in Chris-Craft Industries (which at the time had jointly owned UPN, along with Viacom) buying channel 24, and effectively made it a UPN owned-and-operated station.

former affiliations = religious independent (1985–1987)
HSN (1987–1998)
UPN


Similar

WUTB |

WNUV

The UPN affiliation moved to Home Shopping Network station WHSW (channel 24), which had been purchased by UPN part-owner Chris-Craft Industries and changed its callsign to WUTB.


see also