As Fox was seen at the time on lower-profile UHF station WOIO (channel 19), CBS immediately targeted WEWS as its new affiliate in the market. On June 16, however, ABC and Scripps-Howard Broadcasting signed a long-term deal with that kept WEWS as the network's Cleveland outlet; this deal forced the station's sister outlets in Baltimore, Phoenix, and Tampa to affiliate with ABC (in response to this deal, Westinghouse Broadcasting would sign a groupwide affiliation deal with CBS that would result in its stations in Baltimore, Boston, and Philadelphia becoming affiliates of that network between January and September 1995).