Was WBOY ever a primary ABC station? According to Wikipedia, it's always been a primary NBC station (with a secondary ABC affiliation until 1981), but looking at Television Factbooks from the late 1970s on worldradiohistory.com, I saw that WBOY was listed as an ABC station and WDTV was listed as a primary CBS, secondary NBC station.
I've also seen a WDTV logo on Logopedia that shows both the CBS and NBC logos: WDTV
The existence of the WDTV NBC logo likely means WBOY was a primary ABC station for at least a short period of time in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I wonder if WBOY switched back to NBC when WTRF and WSTV/WTOV swapped affiliations since WTRF had fairly widespread cable carriage (and a decent OTA signal) in north central West Virginia in the CATV days.
Side note: WBOY would be one of several longtime NBC affiliates that switched its primary affiliation to ABC briefly before returning to NBC in the 1970s and 1980s (such as KOMU, WSAV, KTVE, WDTN (which didn't return to NBC until 2004), KTWO (which, after returning to NBC in the 1980s, flipped back to ABC in 2004), and KCEN).
I've also seen a WDTV logo on Logopedia that shows both the CBS and NBC logos: WDTV
The existence of the WDTV NBC logo likely means WBOY was a primary ABC station for at least a short period of time in the late 1970s and early 1980s. I wonder if WBOY switched back to NBC when WTRF and WSTV/WTOV swapped affiliations since WTRF had fairly widespread cable carriage (and a decent OTA signal) in north central West Virginia in the CATV days.
Side note: WBOY would be one of several longtime NBC affiliates that switched its primary affiliation to ABC briefly before returning to NBC in the 1970s and 1980s (such as KOMU, WSAV, KTVE, WDTN (which didn't return to NBC until 2004), KTWO (which, after returning to NBC in the 1980s, flipped back to ABC in 2004), and KCEN).
