The Fox affiliation on a new second digital subchannel was acquired September 13, 2006, following a summer 2006 retransmission dispute between Charleston's WVAH-TV and Suddenlink Communications (the cable system serving Beckley). The demise of the Foxnet cable network (which had served the area for a time in the 1990s) on September 12 also played a role. Although it is carried on a digital subchannel, this is practically a return of Fox to WVNS after a five-year absence. WVNS turned off its analog signal on UHF channel 59 at 12:30 p.m. on February 17, 2009. Although WVNS transmits its digital signal on channel 8, it remaps to channel 59 using PSIP.