West Virginia Media Holdings was a media company in

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. It owned

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stations in each of the four main

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s in the state, as well as a weekly newspaper. The group owned

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in Huntington, WVNS-TV in Lewisburg, and WTRF-TV in

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, which were all affiliated with the

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network; and WBOY-TV in Clarksburg which was affiliated with

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. WVNS and WTRF also carried

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on their

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s, while both subchannels carried

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in addition to Fox as a secondary affiliate. It also owned a weekly newspaper, '' The State Journal'', which mainly covers state commerce and political news. The group was founded in 2001. The largest private investor in the company was Bray Cary, who served as president and CEO. Cary was formerly an executive with

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, and was responsible for its television contracts before they switched to a bulk network model, along with

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syndication. In August 2008, both WTRF and WBOY began carrying ABC programming on their

. Previously, longtime ABC affiliate

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served both markets as the '' de facto'' ABC affiliate and remains on cable in both markets (Fox Ohio Valley replaced WPGH on Comcast systems as the only Fox affiliate on the Comcast channel lineup). On November 17, 2015, WVMH announced that it would sell its stations to

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for $130 million. The company would take over the stations' non-license assets under a time brokerage agreement in December 2015 until the formal completion of the deal, expected in late-2016. The two companies viewed the acquisition as being a complement to Nexstar's WHAG-TV, whose coverage area includes the Eastern Panhandle region. Nexstar CEO Perry A. Sook is an alumnus of WOWK. The sale was completed on January 31, 2017. ''The State Journal'' was separately acquired by NCWV Media in December 2016.

Former stations

Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by

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References

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