"CW 55." On March 21, 2014, LIN Media entered into an agreement to merge with Media General (which itself would be acquired by Nexstar Media Group three years later) in a $1.6 billion deal. Because Media General already owned CBS affiliate WKRG-TV (channel 5), the companies planned to either sell WALA or WKRG to comply with FCC ownership rules as well as planned changes to those rules regarding same-market television stations which would prohibit sharing agreements. In addition, WFNA would also either be retained by Media General to form a new duopoly with WKRG or remain part of the existing duopoly with WALA should the two stations be kept or sold off. On August 20, 2014, it was announced that WALA would be sold to the Des Moines-based Meredith Corporation for $86 million. WFNA, however, was not included in the sale; as a result, WFNA formed a new duopoly with WKRG under Media General ownership, which marked the first time since the FCC allowed legal television duopolies in August 1999 that a station has been involved in a sale transaction in which it was fully separated from its original duopoly partner to form another duopoly (a similar situation occurred in Phoenix, Arizona with KTVK and KASW upon their sales to Meredith in December 2013, which already owned KPHO-TV in that market, although KASW was retained by Meredith through a shared services agreement). The merger was completed on December 19. Oddly, Meredith retained the domain for WFNA's website, and until the Nexstar merger closed the station had no site, even for minimum FCC and Equal Opportunity Employer disclosures. This has since been rectified. Newscasts Under the ownership of WALA, WFNA did not carry any newscasts outside of shared severe weather coverage as WALA's Fox affiliation made it unnecessary to have WFNA carry newscasts in other timeslots. Under WKRG's ownership, WFNA began to simulcast WKRG's two-hour morning newscast on April 20, 2015, mainly as a stopgap solution to fill the timeslot of The Daily Buzz, which was abruptly canceled by its producer on April 16; the simulcast was made permanent for the 2015–16 television season. In June 2016, WFNA introduced a prime time newscast produced by WKRG, CW 55 News at 9; it is focused primarily on the Pensacola portion of the market. In April 2018, the separate branding was dropped, and the newscast is now presented under WKRG's News 5 branding.