not rank among the top four in total-day viewership and therefore is not in conflict with existing FCC in-market ownership rules, Nexstar would have been able to retain KCWI regardless of whether it retained WOI, or sold WOI in order to acquire WHO.) Ultimately, on March 20, 2019, Nexstar announced that it would keep the higher-rated WHO-DT and sell WOI and KCWI to McLean, Virginia-based Tegna Inc. once its acquisition of Tribune was consummated. This was part of a deal to sell nineteen Nexstar- and Tribune-operated stations to Tegna and the E. W. Scripps Company in separate deals worth $1.32 billion; the WOI/KCWI duopoly, along with Moline, Illinois sister station WQAD-TV (which Nexstar, on behalf of Tribune, also plans to divest to Tegna as part of the spin-offs), would mark Tegna's first television properties in Iowa. The sale was completed on September 19, 2019. On February 20, 2020, David Loving was named the new general manager; he assumed his duties on March 2, 2020. Programming In addition to ABC programming, WOI-DT airs syndicated programs such as Entertainment Tonight and Dr. Phil. The station also airs Iowa State University football and men's basketball games. Until September 27, 2011, WOI-DT did not carry ABC World News Now, instead joining its fellow Citadel stations in signing off each night, one of the few remaining stations in the country to do so. In November 2004, all three Citadel ABC-affiliated stations, including WOI, had preempted their Veterans' Day showing of the movie Saving Private Ryan. On December 1, 2008, WOI-TV launched an affiliation with Retro Television Network on its DT2 subchannel, which was later replaced by the Live Well Network on January 16, 2012. It ended at 5 a.m. on January 17, 2015, with Live Well's upcoming end, and like sister stations WHBF and KCAU, which also pulled their DT2 subchannels, WOI took the channel dark with no replacement programming. On August 24, 2016, WOI-TV began broadcasting Laff on its DT2 subchannel. News operation Despite its status as Des Moines' oldest TV station, WOI channel 5 has spent the better part of the last half-century as a distant third in the market, in part because ABC wasn't on par with CBS or NBC until the 1970s. When long-dominant KCCI saw its ratings slip in the mid-2000s, WOI-TV reaped little benefit In the May 2011 ratings period, WOI-DT failed to achieve even a 1.0 rating among