Equipment failure forced the station to shut down its analog operations on June 27, 2008, but the digital signal and cable carriage remained.

Citing a lack of investments caused by a lack of cable carriage, the network shut down May 20, 2008.

Television stations could opt out of cable carriage by invoking retransmission consent.

The station is broadcast over-the-air and via cable carriage and several UHF translators.

The service retained the "News Center Weather Plus" branding and digital cable carriage but the online live video was dropped.

It had to rely on cable carriage in order to reach the entire market.

The plans for the cable channel were abandoned early in 2000 after Sony failed to acquire cable carriage, though the website component remained.

Fox Sports West has wide cable carriage in San Diego County.

The station had limited cable carriage, mainly on smaller systemoutside the core metro counties.

Thus, by blocking cable carriage for the network in this market, the company was ostensibly hurting itself.