Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules, the license was instead sold to SagamoreHill Broadcasting; however, the application to sell the station was opposed by McKinnon Broadcasting, then-owner of KIII. This objection held up the deal until August 24, 2009 when Eagle Creek announced a shared services agreement with KRIS-TV. Cordillera acquired all station assets with Eagle Creek owning KZTV's broadcast license. SagamoreHill finally assumed ownership of the KZTV license on May 19, 2010. As of May 2011, KZTV has added HD recording capabilities to their syndicated programing which gives the station the ability to show syndicated programing in HD when the program is recorded in HD. KZTV became the first station in the Corpus Christi market to broadcast news in HD on Monday, August 1 with its 5 p.m. broadcast. On August 24, 2017, KRIS and KZTV began simulcasting together to provide full coverage of Hurricane Harvey with both news teams. This lasted until September 4, 2017, during this time period, KZTV anchors joined with KRIS anchors and the reporting staff combined for simulcasting. On September 5, 2017, KZTV resumed broadcasting its own news programming on its 5 p.m. broadcast. On October 29, 2018, Cordillera announced the sale of its entire station group, including KZTV's SSA partner KRIS-TV, to the E. W. Scripps Company. According to the transfer of control application filed to the FCC, the SSA involving KZTV would be included in the deal. The sale was completed on May 1, 2019. Programming Syndicated programming Syndicated programming on KZTV includes Entertainment Tonight, The Doctors, and Family Feud, among others. News operation After KRIS-TV's parent company bought out KZTV, KRIS-TV moved into KZTV's facilities in September 2010. Due to technical issues with the move of the station, KRIS-TV was not able to air newscasts from September 25 until September 28, and its reporters instead appeared on KZTV. KRIS-TV unveiled a brand new high definition-ready set and graphics package on September 29, 2010. The station has now become the area's first to air newscasts in 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen. As of October 16, KZTV now simulcasts KRIS-TV's weekday morning, noon, and weekend broadcasts after dropping its own shows in those time periods. For the weekend newscasts, however, there could be preemptions on one channel due to network obligations. KZTV currently broadcasts seven and a half hours of locally produced newscasts due to KRIS-TV's simulcasted weekday morning, noon and weekend broadcasts on KZTV.