 In August 2019, Newsweb sold WAIT's transmitter site to McHenry County College, and the station was taken off the air.Newsweb had formerly owned the Gary, Indiana-licensed UPN affiliate for Chicago, WPWR, until 2003, when they sold the station to Fox Television Stations Group, becoming a duopoly with WFLD, the Fox owned and operated station.In 2006, they also sold Denver UPN affiliate KTVD to the Gannett Company, who made it part of a duopoly with Gannett's local NBC affiliate, KUSA-TV.