My suggestion to everyone that doesn't want to lose WB's and UPN's is wait until around the 29th and then just sign up for one Superstation WB and one Superstation UPN (I think it is $1.99 per station or $5.99 for the whole lot of them and then let Sinclair go dark, you won't miss anything but your local commercials. If you have it before Sinclair goes dark, they can't come back and take it from you.
As far as their message that Dish is dropping the station, this is clearly a situation where Sinclair is holding YOUR stations hostage. Dish wants to air the channels, but Sinclair wants YOU to have to pay more to watch what advertisers should be paying to get you to watch.
As much as people bash Charlie, I honestly think his goal in these things is to keep your bill affordable, and so he is willing to hold out to get YOU the best price. If that means standing up and not paying some jerk-wad more than what a station is worth to you, then I say, by god, go get 'em Charlie!!!