affiliate WGHP (channel 8; which the station originally acquired from New World Communications, along with WBRC), WNRW and WGGT swapped affiliations with WGHP and became the Triad's ABC affiliates while all Fox programming (including Fox Kids) went to WGHP. As such, WGHP became one of only two stations that were involved in the Fox-New World deal to carry the block (the other being KTVI in St. Louis, Missouri, which began carrying it in the fall of 1996); other stations in the same deal declined to carry the block, which either remained on the former Fox station or moved to another station. WNRW also changed its callsign to the current WXLV-TV on September 3, 1995. In 1996, Sullivan decided to have Mission Broadcasting to purchase WGGT from Guilford Broadcasters. In 1997, WGGT discontinued the simulcast with WXLV, and the two stations entered into a local marketing agreement (LMA) with WXLV as the senior partner. As part of the LMA, the UPN affiliation moved exclusively to channel 48, which changed its calls to WUPN-TV. Since David D. Smith, out of ABRY owns stock in Mission, Sullivan effectively had a duopoly in the Triad, although the FCC would not permit actual duopolies until late 1999. Sullivan then bought out by Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1998. A similar situation existed in the Research Triangle region, where Sinclair owned WLFL and Glencairn nominally owned WRDC. Sinclair bought WUPN outright in 2000, creating the market's first legal duopoly. In 2003, Sinclair started a local news department for WUPN and WXLV, but it only operated until mid-2005. In 2004, WXLV, following the lead of other Sinclair stations, censored an episode of Nightline where anchor Ted Koppel read the name of the soldiers during the Iraq War. Around the same time, WXLV was one of the few ABC stations who preempted an uninterrupted broadcast of the 1998 movie Saving Private Ryan. Sinclair was later involved in a retransmission dispute with Time Warner Cable, whose original agreement ended on December 31, 2010. An agreement was reached on February 2, 2011, with no disruption to carriage of WXLV and WMYV. The same deal resulted in the a news share agreement with News 14 Carolina, Time Warner Cable's local news channel. On May 8, 2017, Sinclair entered into an agreement to acquire Tribune Media – which has owned WGHP since December 2013 – for $3.9 billion, plus the assumption of $2.7