programming on weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to noon and from midnight to 2:00 a.m. per an agreement with Carolina Christian Broadcasting. It also agreed to continue producing and airing Niteline for an hour a day for five years. The program was dropped from the schedule by 1993, along with most of the religious programs. WACH eventually changed its branding to "WACH Fox 57" in the 1990s. Ownership changes FCVS eventually bought two other stations, WKCH-TV (now WTNZ) in Knoxville, Tennessee and WEVU-TV (now WZVN-TV) in Naples, Florida. FCVS sold its entire television division to Ellis Communications in 1993. Ellis merged with AFLAC to form Raycom Media in 1996. Raycom merged with The Liberty Corporation, owner of NBC affiliate WIS (channel 10), in 2005. Raycom could not keep both stations because the Federal Communications Commission's duopoly rules at the time prohibited the common ownership of two of the four highest-rated television stations in a single market. Additionally, Columbia has only eight full-power stations, too few to permit a duopoly in any case. The FCC requires a market to have eight unique station owners once a duopoly is formed. Ultimately, Raycom opted to keep long-dominant WIS and put WACH on the market. On March 27, 2006, Raycom announced it would sell WACH and 11 other stations to Barrington Broadcasting. The transaction was completed on August 11, 2006. On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced it would merge with the Sinclair Broadcast Group in a $370 million deal. The sale was completed on November 25. Programming Syndicated programming Syndicated programs broadcast by WACH include The Steve Wilkos Show, Maury, Judge Mathis, Family Feud, The Big Bang Theory, and The Real, among others. News operation WACH presently broadcasts 28½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5½ hours on weekdays and a half-hour each on Saturdays and Sundays); WACH is one of the largest Fox affiliates in the country whose primetime newscast does not air for one hour seven days a week (the Saturday and Sunday editions currently run for 30 minutes). In 1996, NBC affiliate WIS entered into a news share agreement to produce a primetime newscast at 10 p.m. for WACH, the first such primetime newscast in the Columbia market and one of the first in South Carolina. For many years, it was one of the highest-rated primetime newscasts in the nation. Under Barrington Broadcasting ownership, the station terminated its news