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Affiliates which have kept the same network the longest

In Milwaukee, CBS has had affiliations (whether primary or secondary) on six different stations, including one that hasn't existed since 1955 (WCAN 25), and two stints on another one (WITI, 1959-61, '77-94). Current affiliate WDJT is the longest-tenured CBS station in Milwaukee's broadcast TV history, closing in on 28 years by this coming December; it had long surpassed WITI's combined 19 years with CBS, as well as WISN's 16-year stint (1961-77) with the Eye. If WDJT sticks around with CBS beyond 2029, it would surpass the combined stints of WITI and WISN's time with CBS.

In the same vein with WDJT, WITI's soon-to-be 28 years with Fox is their longest-running network affiliation, by far. WISN's two stints with ABC (1954-61, '77-present) total 52 years and counting, and even if you count just the current affiliation agreement between two, it's still the second longest-running network-station relationship in Milwaukee television, just behind the soon-to-be 75 years of service that WTMJ-TV has with NBC.
 
In New England:

WJAR-10 Providence has been an NBC affiliate since going on the air in 1949 (although they also were also an affiliate of DuMont until 1954, CBS until 1955, and ABC until 1963).

WWLP-22 Springfield has also been an NBC affiliate from the beginning, although it also had a secondary ABC affiliation in it's early years.

WCSH-6 in Portland, Maine has been an NBC affiliate since it went on the air in late 1953. WGME-13, also in Portland (originally WGAN) has been affiliated with CBS from it's first day on the air in 1954.

WMUR-9 in Manchester, New Hampshire, has been a primary ABC affiliate since first going on the air in 1954, even though it did carry some DuMont shows, and even a couple of CBS and NBC programs, during it's first couple of years of broadcasting.
 
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