since 2017). Although the area finally got a full-time ABC affiliate in 2008 when WTRF-TV launched one on its third digital subchannel, WYTV remains on cable in parts of the market. The station was Youngstown's first Fox network affiliate from 1994 to 1998. Youngstown did not have a full-time Fox affiliate for the network's first decade, so WYTV joined the network as a secondary affiliate in part due to the network's acquisition of the rights to NFL football. As Fox had rights to the National Football Conference, the rights weren't as much for the Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers since both teams were in the American Football Conference and shared the Youngstown television market since NBC at the time retained AFC rights and their games remained on WFMJ-TV. (In the Browns case, no games would air at all for three years during this time.) Rather, the secondary Fox affiliation was for the NFC's San Francisco 49ers, who were and still are today owned by the locally-based DeBartolo-York family and won Super Bowl XXIX during this time. WYTV was owned by a consortium of local investors until 1965, when a group headed by Adam Young Inc. (whose namesake founder, along with his son Vincent, would start Young Broadcasting 21 years later) purchased the station. A company known as Aurovideo, Inc., which was owned by the Adams-Russell Company, acquired WYTV on November 13, 1970. On June 22, 1983, Benedek Broadcasting purchased 50% of the station with investor Robert L. Dudley, and formed the Youngstown Broadcasting Company as licensee. Benedek purchased the remaining stake on November 25, 1985, and remained the station's owner until the company's bankruptcy filing in 2002. Instead of being purchased by Gray Television, WYTV was bought by Chelsey Television, LLC and was managed by Barrington Broadcasting. The station has applied to increase its digital signal to one megawatt at the end of the transition. On February 6, 2007, Chelsey Television filed an application with the FCC to sell WYTV to Parkin Broadcasting of California, which then leased out the station to WKBN/WYFX owner New Vision Television under a shared services agreement—essentially a local marketing agreement under different legal terms. At the time, some critics wondered if the shared services agreement was legal, since the Youngstown market only has four full-power television stations (WFMJ, WKBN, WYTV, and PBS member station WNEO)—not enough to legally permit a duopoly under FCC rules.