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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 220. Chapters: 1994 United States broadcast TV realignment, List of ABC television affiliates (table), WXYZ-TV, WLNE-TV, WFAA, WABC-TV, KSBW, WKBW-TV, WCVB-TV, WEWS-TV, WPVI-TV, KGO-TV, WISN-TV, KOCO-TV, WSB-TV, KSTP-TV, WNEP-TV, WLS-TV, KTRK-TV, WBMA-LD, WTAE-TV, KOMO-TV, KNXV-TV, KABC-TV, KTVX, WRTV, WZZM, WLOS, KMBC-TV, WBAY-TV, KXLY-TV, KITV, WTVG, WKEF, KAKE, WJLA-TV, WMUR-TV, WIVT, WMTW, WTVD, KRCR-TV, WGNO, KATV, WVEC, WFTS-TV, WVII-TV, WFTV, WMAR-TV, WJXX, KMGH-TV, WHSV-TV, WPTA, WSYR-TV. Excerpt: The 1994 United States broadcast television realignment were a series of events (primarily affiliation switches between stations) resulting from a multi-million dollar deal between the Fox Broadcasting Company, known commonly as Fox, and New World Communications, an owner of several VHF television stations affiliated with major networks, primarily CBS. The major impetus for the changes was to improve local coverage of the fledgling network's new National Football League packages. As a result of various other deals that followed as a result of the affiliation switches, most notably the buyout of CBS by Westinghouse, the switches constituted some of the most sweeping changes in American television history. As a result of this realignment, Fox ascended to the status of a major television network, comparable in influence to the Big Three television networks (CBS, NBC and ABC). Nearly 70 stations in 30 media markets throughout the United States changed affiliations starting in the fall of 1994 and continuing through early 1996. For some time Rupert Murdoch, chief executive officer of News Corporation, the parent company of the Fox network, lusted after a major-league sports presence for his network. He thought that landing a live sports broadcasting package would elevate Fox to the level of ABC, CBS and NBC, the other nationwide broadcast networks in the United States at the time. In 1987, the network bid for Monday Night Football, then the NFL's crown-jewel program, but the offer was rejected. Six years later, in December 1993, Fox stunned the sports and TV worlds by acquiring partial rights to the NFL. The package - covering four seasons of games involving teams in the National Football Conference, as well as Super Bowl XXXI, a package previously owned by CBS - cost Fox $1.58 billion. CBS, then run by the cost-cutting Laurence Tisch, had reportedly bid only $290 million and was unwilling to even approach the Fox offer. At the time of Fox's bid, most of its affiliates w
