the station retained the wb affiliation for another two years on a secondary basis, giving it up upon the launch of the wb 100+, which launched the cable-only station "wfwb" for the market. by this point, more talk and reality shows as well as recent sitcoms were added. children's programming left the station in 2002 when fox ended its weekday kids block. current owner bahakel communications purchased the station in 2006. in late-february 2009, the station added a 24-hour local weather service on a new third digital subchannel and area cable systems. on june 7, 2011, wfxb began transmission of the 43.4 subchannel as a metv affiliate.