WPNT
On December 6, 2017, it was reported that Sinclair and Fox were working on a deal that would see its Fox affiliates renew their affiliation agreement in exchange for Sinclair selling some of its Fox affiliates directly to Fox Television Stations. The deal would see between six and ten Fox affiliates owned by Sinclair and Tribune (all in markets with an NFL team) become Fox owned-and-operated stations. Originally speculated that WPGH-TV may be sold to Fox while Sinclair retained WPNT, it was later reported that WPNT might be included in the deal as well in order to keep the two stations together, which would make WPNT a MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station. On May 9, 2018, Sinclair announced that seven Fox affiliates would be sold to FTS, but WPGH-TV was not included and an affiliation renewal was announced for that station instead, keeping WPGH-TV and WPNT with Sinclair.
WTHI-DT2
It also made Terre Haute one of the only markets in the United States where all three historical commercial broadcast networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) have primary affiliations, the Fox and MyNetworkTV affiliations are carried on a digital subchannel, and The CW is absent an over-the-air affiliate (that network is currently available via CW Plus affiliate "WBI" and Indianapolis affiliate WTTV on area cable providers). WTHI-DT2's secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV gave the Terre Haute market its first television outlet for the programming service, as it had been one of the few markets without a MyNetworkTV affiliate since it launched in September 2006. The switch also saw WXIN and South Bend station WSJV becoming the only Fox affiliates left in the state of Indiana that carry a primary Fox affiliation on their main channels; in addition to WTHI, the Fox (and shared MyNetworkTV) affiliations in Evansville and Fort Wayne were all relegated to digital subchannels of stations whose main channel carries an affiliation with a Big Three network.