transaction was finalized on January 3, 1986, making channel 30 an ABC owned-and-operated station. It marks the first time a Big Three network owns a UHF television station since NBC sold WNBC (now WVIT) in New Britain, Connecticut, to Plains Television in 1960. In 1996, The Walt Disney Company acquired Capital Cities/ABC. KFSN-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 30, at noon on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF channel 9 to UHF channel 30. ABC News Now was launched in 2004 on digital subchannels of ABC O&O stations and lasting until January 31, 2005, as the channel ended its experimental phase. The group changed its programming on secondary channels to ABC Plus, a local news and public affairs format. ABC teamed up with AccuWeather to launch a multicast service starting on ABC stations' third subchannel with the second station taking on the service was KFSN-TV in late 2005. On April 27, 2009, KFSN began carrying the Live Well Network on a second digital subchannel digital subchannel. The station carried a Live Well Network standard definition simulcast was carried on digital subchannel 30.3 until it was replaced with Laff on April 15, 2015. ABC Owned Television Stations took its Localish digital media venture promoted by KFSN and other stations then rebranded its Live Well Network as Localish on February 17, 2020. Programming As of 2022, five current syndicated programs on KFSN are shared with most of the other ABC-owned stations: Live with Kelly and Ryan (produced by network flagship WABC-TV), Tamron Hall, Rachael Ray, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. KFSN-TV serves as the production company for two programs seen on the Live Well Network, now called Localish, Motion and My Family Recipe Rocks. News operation KFSN-TV presently broadcasts 39 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6 hours each weekday and 3 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among the broadcast television stations in the Fresno market. Unlike most ABC affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, the station does not broadcast a 5:30 p.m. newscast on weekdays, opting to fill the half-hour with ABC World News Tonight (as a result of that