WXIN
On December 6, 2017, reports stated that Sinclair and Fox were working on a deal that would see most of the Fox-affiliated stations whose affiliation contracts were set to expire at the end of the year renew said agreements, in exchange for Sinclair selling some Fox affiliates involved in the Tribune deal or already under the group's ownership directly to Fox Television Stations. The deal would see between six and ten Fox affiliates owned by Sinclair and Tribune in markets with an NFL franchise become Fox owned-and-operated stations. It is not known if WXIN will be one of the stations sold nor how the deal could be brokered with regards to its duopoly with WTTV/WTTK, although the stations being sold to Fox are expected to largely come from Tribune Media (notably KCPQ and its MyNetworkTV-affiliated sister KZJO in Seattle, where Sinclair already owns ABC affiliate KOMO-TV and Univision affiliate KUNS-TV), many of which were previously owned by Fox. (Sinclair may sell additional Fox affiliates to other groups not associated with the company to both address the aforementioned issues and the ownership conflicts that Sinclair and Tribune have in ten markets that largely would be excluded from the side deal with Fox.)
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.