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While checking out the post on the Song of the South network, one poster noted that WMGM (a former NBC in southern New Jersey) is now affiliated with the network. That struck me as odd. Are there any other full-powered, pre-2009 stations that only affiliate with a digital network?
 
Columbus GA market: WLGA/ch. 66 (Opelika AL city of license) is affiliated with Antenna TV. Montgomery AL market: WYIC/ch. 48 (Troy AL city of license) is Cozi TV. Los Angeles: KVME/ch. 20 (Bishop CA city of license) shows Me-TV. Birmingham AL: WVUA/ch 23 (Tuscaloosa AL city of license) is This TV. Las Vegas: KVMY/ch. 21 is Antenna TV. Philadelphia: KJWP/ch. 2 (Wilmington DE city of license) is Me-TV.

Correction: the service WMGM is with is Soul Of The South.
 
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The question is, does one consider KJWP and WJLP as "pre-2009" stations when they were not in their current markets back then?
 
KRDK in Fargo, ND. For 60 years from 1954 to 2014, it was KXJB and the market's CBS affiliate. However, about 12 years ago, the station was essentially disbanded and taken over by NBC affiliate KVLY under a local marketing agreement. Once the FCC started applying pressure to virtual duopolies in small markets last year, KVLY's owner, Gray Television, decided to put CBS on a subchannel of KVLY and sell off KXJB. Under new ownership, the station became KRDK and today only broadcasts a collection of digital networks, leading off with Heroes & Icons on the primary (.1) subchannel.
 
The following stations run Heroes & Icons on xx.1:
KRDK (4) Valley City-Fargo, ND
KNDB (26) & KNDM (24) Bismarck-Minot, ND
KUPT (29) Hobbs, NM
WGWG (4) Charleston, SC

The following stations run Heartland on xx.1, but will switch to H&I on 10/1/15:
WSES (33) Tuscaloosa, AL
WGWW (40) Anniston, AL
 
the former KHAS NBC in Grand Island, NE (now KNHL) is Sonlife (SBN...the Jimmy Swaggart Network)

Same reason as the North Dakota examples above...Gray buys the assets of a station, moves the programming to its own station as a subchannel. New owner for old station
 
KVOS in Bellingham, WA (Seattle market but closer to Vancouver BC) is MeTV on -1
(was Independent)

KWWT Odessa, TX...was CW until end of 2013..now is MeTV
 
KVME channel 20 in Bishop, CA, broadcasts Me-TV on its primary channel. This channel originally signed on in 2007 as Spanish-language KBBC on analog channel 20. Since it signed on a mere two years before the analog shutdown, it did not get a separate channel for its digital signal, so instead it converted to digital on its channel 20 allotment, known in the TV business as a "flash-cut." KVME completed its transition to digital on November 30, 2008, months before the deadline. Bishop is located in Inyo County, putting it in the Los Angeles market, hence the station's carriage among the local channels for L.A.'s DirecTV and Dish subscribers.

BTW, Me-TV has a channel serving L.A. proper on Anaheim (Orange County)-licensed KDOC channel 56.3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVME-TV
 
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Mastaclocksetta said:
BTW, Me-TV has a channel serving L.A. proper on Anaheim (Orange County)-licensed KDOC channel 56.3.
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The two stations simulcast except for some paid religious programming blocks in the early morning, including running the same commercials in their local avails. The tiny font at the bottom of the MeTV station ID covers both channels, which co-brand as "MeTV Hollywood".

There are a few cable systems which carry KVME/20 via LPTV repeaters in their service areas, which is an interesting way of demanding must-carry status, I should think.
 
Here is a list (from rabbitears) of full power stations that have a more common diginet as its -1. I did not include LP stations as there are a lot of them that associate with diginets so they will have it on a -1 (and in most cases havent been around since 2009) ;)

Note some have been mentioned already and yes there is probably more that may have an oddball diginet as a -1 that I didnt note.

Sonlife
WMFP 62 Boston
WIWN 68 Milwaukee
KCEB 54 Tyler, TX
KHNL Grand Island, NE

This
WVUA 23 Birmingham, AL
WDSI 61 Chattanooga
WVXF 17 USVI
I did remember seeing one or two stations have ThisTV as secondary programming on a -1 but didnt include them

Me
WTLH 49 Tallahassee
KLWB 50 Lafayette, LA
KMLU 11 Monroe, LA
KWWT 30 Odessa, TX
KVUI 31 Idaho Falls, ID
WZMQ 19 Marquette, MI
KQME 10 and KHME 23 Rapid City/Lead, SD
KTGF 16 Great Falls, MT
KVOS 12 Bellingham, WA

Cozi
KMBH 38 Harlingen, TX
WFFP 24 Roanoke, VA
WIYC 48 Troy, AL
KGBY 20 Grand Junction, CO

AMG TV
KCWV 27 Duluth, MN

AntennaTV
WLGA 66 Columbus, GA
 
Couple More

Grit
WXBU 15 Harrisburg, PA

H&I
WZME 43 Bridgeport, CT
WGTA 32 Atlanta, GA
KCSG 14 Cedar City, UT
KHSV 21 Las Vegas
WSES 33 & WGWW 40 Birmigham, AL
WGWG 4 CHarleston. SC
KNBD 26 Bismark, ND
KNDM 24 Minot, ND

soon WHAG 25 Hagerstown, MD
 
Also:

Sonlife
WMGM 40 Atlantic City (was a Soul of the South affiliate in 2015)
 
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