structured legally, the FCC reckons KDLT's current facility in Sioux Falls as a new license dating from 1998, while KDLV in Mitchell operates under KDLT's former license and facility on channel 5. Red River received a construction permit for channel 42 under the KDLV calls on April 1, 1997; it switched callsigns with channel 5 on September 8, 1998. Consolidation with KSFY-TV On May 1, 2018, Gray Television announced its purchase of KDLT-TV for $32.5 million. The deal would create a duopoly with KSFY-TV. The combined operation would be based at KSFY's studios on Courthouse Square in Sioux Falls; in its announcement of the KDLT purchase, Gray noted that the KSFY studio has enough space to house a second station's news and sales department. Gray needed to obtain a waiver in order to complete the deal, since the FCC normally does not allow one entity to own two of the four highest-rated stations in a market. However, in its filing requesting such a waiver, Gray argued that KDLT would be in a stronger position to compete in the market if its resources were combined with those of KSFY. Gray contended that a KSFY/KDLT duopoly would fulfill "a dire need for an effective competitor" in the Sioux Falls market, where CBS affiliate KELO-TV has been the far-and-away leader for as long as records have been kept with a local news share of 70 percent and an advertising market share of 55 percent, and said that the market was a "unicorn". The sale was approved by the FCC on September 24, 2019, and was completed the following day. On January 13, 2020, KDLT moved its operations to KSFY's studios on Courthouse Square. On November 2, 2020, Gray purchased the non-license assets of KTTW (channel 7) from Independent Communications, Inc.; Fox programming moved to KDLT on digital subchannel 46.2. Cozi TV, which was also carried on KTTW, moved to subchannel 46.4. This resulted in all of the network affiliations in eastern South Dakota being controlled by just two companies, Gray and KELO-TV owner Nexstar Media Group. Programming KDLT-TV clears the entire NBC network schedule. It airs an alternate live feed of NBC Nightly News at 6 p.m. due to the station's 5:30 p.m. newscast. Syndicated programming currently broadcast on KDLT-TV includes Jeopardy!, Rachael Ray, Hot Bench and Judge Judy. News operation KDLT presently broadcasts 19½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with