trustee to cancel the proposed sale to Brumlik, citing the uncertainty created by the money laundering case. Even despite the continued uncertainty over channel 43's future ownership, the station grew and was recognized as one of the fastest-growing Fox affiliates. FCVS Communications, which owned WACH in Columbia, South Carolina, bought WKCH-TV in 1990. Under FCVS, the station increased its community involvement and improved its transmission facilities. In 1993, FCVS received an "offer it could not refuse" from Ellis Communications and sold its broadcast holdings: WKCH-TV, WACH, and WEVU-TV in Naples, Florida. Ellis made further improvements, including changing the call sign to WTNZ and relocating the studio to Executive Park Drive in 1994. Ellis Communications was then folded into Raycom Media in late 1996. On June 25, 2018, Raycom Media announced that it agreed to be sold to Gray Television. Gray kept its existing duopoly of WVLT-TV and WBXX-TV and sold WTNZ to a third party; on August 20, 2018, Gray sold WTNZ, along with fellow Fox affiliates WFXG in Augusta, Georgia, WPGX in Panama City, Florida, and WDFX-TV in Dothan, Alabama, to Lockwood Broadcast Group (owner of independent station WKNX-TV). The sale was completed on January 2, 2019. Newscasts Not long after going on the air, channel 43 began producing short news breaks. In 1998, WTNZ established a news share agreement with WVLT-TV to produce its first local newscast, the Fox 43 Ten O'Clock News. Liz Tedone, Patrick McMurtry, Nick Paranjape, and Craig Edwards anchored the news, weather and sports for the half-hour nightly newscast; the talent, separate from the presenters for WVLT's own newscasts, were absorbed by channel 8 itself in 2000. In 2001, Fox 43 ended its agreement with WVLT and entered into a similar contract with ABC-affiliated WATE-TV; channel 8 thought it was not financially feasible to continue, while WATE thought it was. After 10 years, the WTNZ-WATE collaboration ended, and WTNZ entered into an agreement with NBC affiliate WBIR-TV to produce local news. On March 28, 2011, WBIR took over production of the nightly newscast and expanded it to one hour on weeknights. Later that year, a two-hour morning show produced by WBIR-TV was also added. Prior to producing the WTNZ newscasts, WBIR had produced a 10-minute 10 p.m. newscast for WBXX-TV (channel 20); WATE-TV took over those duties from WBIR and expanded that program to a full 35 minutes. A half-hour 6:30 p.m. newscast from