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Not rhetorical. The deregulation of the industry in the mid-'90s meant they could go hogwild buying "bundles" of stations.
I know here in Philly, there was a wild set of buys that included Infinity Broadcasting (with NBC affiliates) being bought by Westinghouse (which had owned CBS at the time), and that resulted with our having 2 CBS affiliates. This eventually resulted in those major stations KYW (previously NBC channel 3) and WCAU (previously CBS channel 10), switching affiliations. They rebranded to "NBC10" and "CBS3". THAT was hard to get used to. 
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