in january 2018, the "financial times" reported that fts was finalizing a deal to acquire as many as 10 fox affiliates from sinclair, as part of an effort to reach fcc approval of its proposed acquisition of tribune media. the deal would likely include seattle's kcpq (as sinclair already owns abc affiliate komo-tv there), kokh-tv in oklahoma city (tribune already owns kfor-tv), kstu-tv in salt lake city (sinclair already owns kutv), ktvi in st. louis (sinclair owns kdnl) and tribune's fox/cw duopoly of kdvr and kwgn in denver. this deal would bring several former o&os previously divested to local tv llc (which was acquired by tribune) back under fox ownership.