sold WREX to the Gilmore Broadcasting Corporation, owner of WEHT in Evansville, Indiana. In 1987, Gilmore sold the station to ML Media Partners, L.P. In May 1995, Quincy Newspapers purchased WREX; the purchase was completed on July 31. Two weeks later, on August 14, WREX switched network affiliations with WTVO, taking that station's NBC affiliation while WTVO assumed WREX's old ABC affiliation. According to Variety, the affiliation switch was forced by ABC in retaliation for Quincy switching the affiliation of its South Bend station WSJV from ABC to Fox earlier that year. On January 7, 2021, Quincy Media announced that it had put itself up for sale. A few weeks later, Gray Television announced it will purchase Quincy for $925 million. While Gray already owns WIFR-LD, the market's CBS affiliate, FCC regulations permit the common ownership of a full-power and a low-power station in a single market. However, on April 29, Gray announced that WREX would be divested to Allen Media Group in a $380 million deal that includes, among other Quincy-owned stations, WKOW, WXOW in La Crosse, and WQOW in Eau Claire. The deal is expected to close during the third quarter of 2021. Though Gray will not have any direct ownership or control of WREX, one caveat of Allen Media's deal to acquire the station includes a 10-year agreement to carry WIFR-LD on a WREX subchannel, which would give WIFR full-market coverage for the first time since it went to low-power status in 2017. Programming Syndicated programming Syndicated programming on WREX includes The Doctors, Tamron Hall, Dr. Phil, Jeopardy!, and Wheel of Fortune, among others. News operation WREX airs more than 22 hours worth of newscasts a week, with hours weekday mornings at 4:30; 30 minutes on weekdays at 11 a.m., 5, and 6; 35 minutes weekdays at 10; 30 minutes Saturdays at 6 and 10, and 30 minutes Sunday at 5 and 10. WREX had a unique partnership with The Rockford Register Star, the city's daily newspaper. Staff of the newspaper would appear on WREX's news programs. In return, the newspaper promotes upcoming news stories and programming on Channel 13. WREX also has a partnership with Mid-West Family Broadcasting radio stations in the Rockford market. WREX provides weather reports for the stations and in return the radio stations provide promotion for WREX's programming. WREX began to air newscasts in high-definition on December 12, 2010, the second in