On January 18 , 1998 , WNUV dropped its affiliation with UPN in favor of joining The WB ; this resulted in Chris-Craft Industries ( which at the time had jointly owned UPN , along with Viacom ) buying channel 24 , and effectively making it a UPN owned-and-operated station . On January 20 , 1998 , the station 's call letters were changed to the current " WUTB " . Chris-Craft ran the station out of then-sister station WWOR-TV 's facilities in Secaucus , New Jersey and fed the station 's programming to its transmitter site in Baltimore ; this included WWOR 's local news coverage of the September 11 attacks . On July 25 , 2001 , Fox Television Stations purchased WUTB and the other Chris-Craft stations . In November 2002 , rumors began surfacing that the station would become a Fox affiliate as a result of the purchase , but the network 's existing Baltimore affiliate WBFF made a deal to keep its affiliation with that network
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
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