Charleston WV Channel 8 ABC & 11 FOX May Be Dropped June 1st

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The following is the message that has been scrolling on the bottom of Channel 8 WCHS-TV newscasts (you may also find this on Channel 11 WVAH-TV newscasts at 10-11 pm):

Attention subscribers to the Dish Network The current agreement allowing the Dish Network to provide you with the signal of this television station will end on May 31, 2005. Although we are continuing to negotiate to try and obtain an extension of this agreement, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. In order to ensure your uninterrupted ability to watch the quality programming appearing on this station, you may want to consider consider contacting your localbe cable operator or DirecTV, whose ability to continue to carry this station's programming will not be impacted. Thank you.

 

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Here are the Sinclair Markets:

Channel 13 ABC WLOS & Channel 40 WB WBSC - Asheville, NC & Greenville/Spartanburg/Anderson, SC - Market Rank 35

Channel 45 FOX WBFF & Channel 54 WB WNUV - Baltimore, MD - Market Rank 23

Channel 21 WB WTTO & Channel 68 UPN WABM & Channel 17 WB WDBB - Birmingham/Tuscaloosa, AL - Market Rank 40

Channel 29 FOX WUTV & Channel 49 WB WNYO - Buffalo, NY - Market Rank 46

Channel 2 CBS WGAN - Cedar Rapids/Waterloo/Dubuque, IA - Market Rank 88

Channel 15 NBC WICD & Channel 20 NBC WICS - Champaign/Springfield/Decatur, IL - Market Rank 82

Channel 36 UPN WMMP & Channel 24 FOX WTAT - Charleston, SC - Market 101

***Channel 8 ABC WCHS & Channel 11 FOX WVAH - Charleston/Huntington, WV - Market Rank 62

Channel 64 WB WSTR - Cincinnati, OH - Market Rank 33

Channel 6 ABC WSYX - Columbus, OH & Channel 28 FOX WTTE - Columbus, OH - Market Rank 34

Channel 22 ABC WKEF & Channel 45 FOX WRGT - Dayton, OH - Market Rank 56

Channel 17 FOX KDSM - Des Moines, IA - Market Rank 73

Channel 66 FOX WSMH - Flint/Saginaw/Bay City, MI - Market Rank 65

Channel 45 ABC WXLV & Channel 48 UPN WUPN - Greensboro/Winston-Salem/Highpoint, NC - Market Rank 48

Channel 62 WB WSMO - Kansas City, MO - Market Rank 31

Channel 21 WB KVWB & Channel 33 IND KFBT - Las Vegas, NV - Market Rank 52

Channel 56 FOX WDKY - Lexington, KY - Market Rank 64

Channel 47 FOX WMSN - Madison, WI - Market Rank 85

Channel 24 UPN WCGV & Channel 18 WB WVTV - Milwaukee, WI - Market Rank 32

Channel 23 WB KMWB - Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN - Market Rank 14

Channel 3 ABC WEAR & Channel 35 IND WFGX - Mobile, AL/Pensacola, FL - Market Rank 63

Channel 17 FOX WZTV & Channel 30 UPN WUXP & Channel 58 WNAB - Nashville, TN - Market Rank 30

Channel 33 WB WTVZ - Norfolk/Portsmouth/Newport News, VA - Market Rank 41

Channel 34 WB WOCB & Channel 25 FOX KOKH - Oklahoma City, OK - Market Rank 45

Channel 23 FOX KBSI & Channel 49 WB WDKA - Paducah, KY/Cape Girardea, MO/Harrisburg and Mount Vernon, IL - Market Rank 79

Channel 43 FOX WYZZ - Peoria/Bloomington, IL - Market Rank 117

Channel 53 FOX WPGH & Channel 22 WB WCWB - Pittsburgh, PA - Market Rank 22

Channel 13 CBS WGME - Portland/Auburn, ME - Market Rank 74

Channel 22 WB WLFL & Channel 28 UPN WRDC - Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville, NC - Market Rank 29

Channel 35 FOX WRLH - Richmond/Petersburg, VA - Market Rank 61

Channel 31 FOX WUHF - Rochester, NY - Market Rank 75

Channel 29 FOX KABB & Channel 35 WRRT - San Antonio, TX - Market Rank 37

Channel 40 ABC WGGB - Springfield/Holyoke, MA - Market Rank 106

Channel 30 ABC KDNL - St Louis, MO - Market Rank 21

Channel 68 FOX WSYT & Channel 43 WB WNYS - Syracuse, NY - Market Rank 77

***Channel 40 NBC WTWC & Channel 27 ABC WTXL - Tallahassee/Thomasville, FL - Market Rank 109

Channel 38 WB WTTA - Tampa/St Petersburg/Sarasota, FL - Market Rank 77

Channel 39 FOX WEMT - Tri-Cities, TN/VA - Market Rank 89

*** Owns TWO main networks in the same market!!!