[2] In 2005, the FCC completed a study of media markets and created a list of counties where out-of-market television stations are significantly viewed over the air.
Two examples of SV-channel preservation on digital cable and CATV favoring a non-designated market area are in Belvidere, New Jersey, along the Delaware River.
Harrisonburg is a fringe area because it is within the National Radio Quiet Zone, 100 miles (161 km) from Washington, D.C. and Richmond (whose DMA had formerly included Harrisonburg) and Roanoke, Virginia, and about 40 miles (64 km) from Charlottesville, Virginia (a separate media market which had also been part of the Richmond DMA).
A significantly-viewed, redundant affiliate may be valuable to a cable-television company in a carriage dispute if it has the same network but different local owners.
The Florence–Myrtle Beach market received its own NBC affiliate in August 2008, when Raycom Media signed on WMBF.
On December 1, 2008, WECT returned to Time Warner Cable's Lumberton service area on a digital-cable tier.