Thread:AndyLeal/@comment-424959-20141222223536/@comment-424959-20141223031637

Here is a helpful advice. In 1998, Sinclair signed a lucrative affiliation deal with The WB to shift several stations from UPN and FOX. Then, FOX, UPN and Sinclair got involved into a dispute, causing Sinclair-owned FOX and UPN stations to either do affiliation swaps, switch affiliations, or become Independent stations altogether. The switch to independent from UPN or FOX for Sinclair-owned UPN and FOX stations happened and those stations were Independent from January 1998 or March 1998 until July 1998, August 1998, or September 1998 in most markets and from September 1999 until February 2000.