make the deal work. Superior moved the station from its original Lexington base on Interstate Avenue to the Chevy Chase Plaza after signing a lease for the property in 1995. Sook then sold WDKY and KOCB in Oklahoma City to Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1996. On January 27, 2020, Sinclair announced that it would sell WDKY and the non-license assets of KGBT-TV in Harlingen, Texas, to Nexstar Media Group as part of a settlement between the two companies over Sinclair's failed acquisition of Tribune Media, which was ultimately acquired by Nexstar. The deal reunited Sook, who had gone on to found Nexstar almost immediately after selling Superior, with the first station he had purchased nearly 30 years prior; it also gave Nexstar its first television station in Kentucky. The transaction was completed on September 17, 2020. Newscasts On January 2, 1995, CBS affiliate WKYT-TV began producing a nightly 10 p.m. newscast for WDKY, starting a relationship that would last for 27 years. WKYT supplied all of the talent except co-anchor Marvin Bartlett, an employee of WDKY. Within two years, the newscast, which WDKY paid channel 27 to produce, made money. On March 12, 2007, WDKY began airing an hour of news on weekday mornings at 7 a.m., also produced by WKYT. Under its new Nexstar management, WDKY ended the WKYT arrangement and began to originate its own 10 p.m. newscasts on January 1, 2022. Two days later, on January 3, WDKY debuted an expanded morning show (5–9 a.m.) and 6:30 p.m. newscast. On June 6, 2022, the station added a 7 p.m. newscast, the second in that time slot in the market. Since 2023, WDKY produces a 6:30pm newscast for WLJC. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion WDKY-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 56, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal moved from its pre-transition VHF channel 4 to UHF channel 31. TV spectrum repack WDKY moved its channel allocation from digital channel 31 to 19 at 10:00 a.m. on May 7, 2019, and remains on virtual channel 56. References External links WDKY-TV "Fox 56" Fox network affiliates Rewind TV affiliates Charge! (TV network) affiliates TBD (TV network) affiliates DKY-TV Nexstar Media Group Television channels and stations established in 1986