Complete listing of the 1990s affiliation shifts?

[BobbyNBC10]

In 1994, KXTV-10 & KOVR-13 in Sacramento flip-flopped their networks (KXTV from CBS to ABC & KOVR from ABC to CBS). Also in 1998, KMAX-31 & KQCA-58 (also in Sacramento) flip-flopped their networks (KMAX from WB to UPN & KQCA from UPN to WB). In 2006, KMAX picked up the merged network CW while KQCA picked up My Network TV.

No,the KXTV/KOVR-TV swap was in 3/1995.

 

[Ultimajock]

And back to Detroit: as I understand it, the CBS move from 2 to 62 was a godsend for WTOL/11
Toledo, which has enough penetration into Detroit to make it almost the de facto CBS affiliate.

No doubt WLNS Lansing and WEYI Flint (later WNEM, when they swapped) also came out as winners, getting more viewers from the northern and western portions of the market.

...somewhat of a reversal of the situation in the Milwaukee market, where the official affiliation had gone from New World's WITI/6 to Weigel's much weaker signal WDJT/58; CBS, by that time, owned WFRV/5 Green Bay as well as WBBM-TV/2 Chicago to the north and south. Off to the west, I'm sure Morgan Murphy's WISC/3 Madison also benefit a bit too...

 

[johnnya2k6]

There were other markets whose stations switched network affiliations throughout the '90s:

Cincinnati:
WCPO: CBS to ABC
WKRC: ABC to CBS

Honolulu:
KHON: NBC to Fox
KHNL: Fox to NBC

Rapid City:
KEVN: NBC to Fox

And of course, Fairbanks:
KTVF: Full-time CBS/secondary NBC to full-time NBC (K13XD would launch as a full-time CBS affiliate in August 1996)

But the affiliation shifts couldn't come at a worse time for CBS; along with the loss of the NFL to Fox, they fell to third place behind NBC and ABC in the ratings for the second time in their history (the last was in 1987-88). A Time magazine article from 1995 explains more (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983765,00.html), but thanks to Les Moonves, they would slowly get back up on top in 1998 when the NFL returned to CBS.

 

[only1moore]

I don't know who had Fox in Detroit or Milwaukee but I do know:

Detroit: WJBK/2 CBS to Fox, WWJ/62 Ind. to CBS

Milwaukee: WITI/6 CBS to Fox, WDJT/58 gets CBS

In Detroit, WKBD/50 was the Fox affiliate
In Milwaukee, Fox's original affil was WCGV/24. BTW CBS was hoping to pick up WCGV but the station turned down the offer, as did WVTV, WVCY and WJJA.

 

[The King Bee]

Don't forget the Louisville switch on September 1, 1990: WLKY (ABC since 9/16/61) became CBS; WHAS (CBS since 3/27/50) became ABC.

 

[johnnya2k6]

New Orleans:

WGNO: Independent to ABC
WVUE: ABC to Fox
WNOL: Fox to WB/CW

 

[johnnya2k6]

New Orleans:

WGNO: Independent to ABC
WVUE: ABC to Fox
WNOL: Fox to WB/CW

CORRECTION: WGNO was briefly a WB station before picking up the ABC affiliation from WVUE.