 On Monday, January 5, 2009, after a day of airing a red slide alerting viewers to the disruption of the RTN service, WBIF briefly signed off the air.Shortly thereafter, WBIF converted to a This TV affiliation that would turn out to be temporary.On April 16, 2009, the station was auctioned and sold to Daystar Television Network and was taken dark upon Daystar's assumption of operations to build-out the digital facilities.