both of whom were with the station prior to the adoption of the Nightcap format. NewsFix officially debuted on May 20, 2014, beginning with the 5:00 pm broadcast, with Greg Onofrio – a Houston radio personality who also continued to serve in the same capacity on the KIAH edition of the program – serving as its narrator, in addition to making on-screen appearances for a commentary segment at the end of the broadcast. On September 6, 2018, Tribune announced that NewsFix would be canceled effective September 14; Morning Dose, the successor program to EyeOpener, was concurrently canceled effective October 19. Nexstar ownership Sinclair Broadcast Group entered into an agreement to acquire Tribune Media on May 8, 2017, for $3.9 billion, plus the assumption of $2.7 billion in Tribune debt. While Sinclair had initially intended on retaining KDAF, Cunningham Broadcasting—a partner licensee with family ties to Sinclair executive chairman David D. Smith—offered to purchase KDAF for $60 million, with Sinclair filing a shared services agreement (SSA) to operate the station. This proposed divestiture was one of several that attracted the scrutiny of FCC chairman Ajit Pai, prompting Sinclair to abandon the Cunningham deal in favor of finding a third party for KDAF. The FCC voted to send the entire merger before an evidentiary review hearing, and Pai publicly rejected it. Tribune Media terminated the merger proposal outright on August 9, 2018, filing a breach of contract lawsuit against Sinclair in the process. Following the Sinclair deal's collapse, Nexstar Media Group—based in the Dallas suburb of Irving—announced their purchase of Tribune Media on December 3, 2018, for $6.4 billion in cash and debt. The sale was completed on September 19, 2019. Local programming On March 13, 2019, the station began a partnership with Urban One, where the morning show from radio station KBFB (97.9 FM), Veda Loca in the Morning, was simulcast on KDAF from 6 to 8 am. During that time, it was known on-air as The Beat on 33. The partnership quietly ended on January 3, 2020, when Veda Loca in the Morning itself was canceled. On June 1, 2020, the station premiered a daily morning talk show at 10 am called Morning After, which is based on the video podcast of the same name. The show is hosted by Ron Corning and Jenny Anchondo. Currently, the only local news on channel 33 is in the form of 30-second news