WUTV
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. It is not known if WUTV will be one of the stations sold, although the stations being sold to Fox are expected to be from Tribune Media (notably KCPQ in Seattle, where Sinclair already owns KOMO-TV), many of which were previously owned by Fox. A sale to Fox would make WUTV Buffalo's first Big Four network O&O since WBUF-TV (channel 17, now PBS member WNED-TV), which was owned by NBC from 1955 until its sign-off in 1958. On May 9, 2018, Sinclair announced that seven Fox affiliates would be sold to FTS, but WUTV was not included and an affiliation renewal was announced for that station instead, keeping WUTV 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.