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

WOWK-TV WOWK-TV (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Huntington, West Virginia, United States, serving the Charleston–Huntington market as an affiliate of CBS. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on Quarrier Stre ...

in Huntington, WVNS-TV in Lewisburg, and

WTRF-TV WTRF-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Wheeling, West Virginia, United States, serving the Wheeling, West Virginia–Steubenville, Ohio market as an affiliate of CBS, MyNetworkTV, and ABC. The station is owned by Nexstar Me ...

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, which were all affiliated with the

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network; and

WBOY-TV WBOY-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States, serving North Central West Virginia as an affiliate of NBC and ABC. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on West Pike Stre ...

in Clarksburg which was affiliated with

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. WVNS and WTRF also carried Fox 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

WTAE-TV WTAE-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with ABC. It has been owned by Hearst Television since the station's inception, making this one of two stations that have been built and signed o ...

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served both markets as the ''

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'' 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 Nexstar Broadcasting Group 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 WDVM-TV (channel 25) is an independent television station licensed to Hagerstown, Maryland, United States, serving the Washington, D.C. television market. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside CW owned-and-operated station WDCW (chann ...

, whose coverage area includes the

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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.The State Journal Becomes Part of NCWV Media
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Former WVMH-owned stations

Stations are arranged alphabetically by state and by

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References

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