Riding waves: 3 new stations take on NBC29  New York is number
one. Charlottesville is number 186– pretty far down the
television market list, sitting smack in between Lima, Ohio, and
Parkersburg, West Virginia.  Lima has two television stations;
Parkersburg one. Even Harrisonburg– which is six spots higher up
the Nielsen chart than Charlottesville– has just one network
affiliate.  So what's Charlottesville doing with four commercial
stations?  Up until this year, WVIR NBC29 was the only game in
town. Now, CBS and ABC affiliates are racing to get on the air,
and an independent station promises 24 hours of "all
Charlottesville, all the time."  Why here? Why now?   The new
kids on the block   The TV rush of '04 started with Gray
Television. A publicly held company based in Atlanta, Gray owns
29 stations, including WHSV in Harrisonburg.  "The general
counsel in our company knew people who'd owned the
[Charlottesville] license for some time, and one thing led to
another," says Tracey Jones, Gray regional vice pre