KOIN/KRCW combination would leave only seven full-power commercial television stations with independent ownership remaining in the market, barring a second legal duopoly in the market under the previous "eight-voices test" rules repealed by the FCC in November 2017), hence there are no legal hurdles in place which would otherwise preclude a KOIN/KRCW duopoly. The sale was approved by the FCC on September 16 and was completed on September 19, 2019. This acquisition by Nexstar effectively reunited KRCW-TV (along with KPLR-TV) with four stations that had previously been sister stations under ACME Communications ownership prior to 2003 turned CW affiliates: KUCW (formerly KUWB) in Salt Lake City, Utah, the duopoly of KWBQ and KASY-TV (the latter a MyNetworkTV affiliate) in Albuquerque, New Mexico (though both are owned by Mission Broadcasting, they have an LMA with Nexstar, and their senior partner in the agreement, dual CBS/Fox affiliate KRQE, has also been a sister station to KOIN from 1985 to 2005 and since 2014), and WBDT in Dayton, Ohio (owned by Vaughan Media, but also through an LMA with Nexstar). Programming Syndicated programming on the station includes Seinfeld, Two and a Half Men, Modern Family, Jerry Springer, and Maury among others. In the 2000s, the station served as the over-the-air television home for the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team in the Portland market. Newscasts From 2003 to 2005, NBC affiliate KGW (channel 8) produced a nightly 10 p.m. newscast called Northwest NewsChannel 8 at 10 on PAX for the area's Pax TV owned-and-operated station KPXG-TV (which is now with Pax successor Ion Television). The program was moved over to KWBP on October 3, 2005 through a news share agreement that was struck between KGW and KWBP. Renamed as Northwest NewsChannel 8 at 10 on Portland's WB, it was the first news program of any kind ever to be broadcast on this station. The program title was changed on September 18, 2006, when KRCW made the affiliation switch to The CW. On January 21, 2008, KGW became the first television station in the Portland market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, the KRCW broadcast was included in the upgrade. On July 22, 2014, KRCW's newscast was retitled KGW News at 10 on Portland's CW 32, in accordance with KGW's retiring of the Northwest NewsChannel 8 brand after 20 years. The prime time production originated from KGW's studios on Southwest Jefferson