and the licenses of satellites KGMD-TV and KGMV from American Spirit Media for $6.5 million. Nexstar concurrently assumed the station's operations through a time brokerage agreement (TBA) that took effect the day the transaction paperwork was filed with the FCC, under which Raycom forwarded the rights to certain managerial services involving KFVE—not counting certain other services to which Raycom would retain stewardship under the TBA—on a transitional basis. Under the deal, Nexstar would integrate KFVE's operations into KHON's studio facilities at the Haiwaiki Tower on Piikoi and Waimanu Streets. However, Raycom would retain rights to the KFVE intellectual unit (call letters, syndicated and local programming), which was shifted to a digital subchannel of either KHNL or KGMB as will KFVE-DT2's Bounce TV affiliation (which was moved to KGMB-DT4); the KFVE calls would also be retained by Raycom for branding continuity. As such, Nexstar would likely assign new call letters to the channel 9 license as well as acquire programming to replace that being maintained by Raycom post-acquisition (which may include shifting the programming on KHON's CW-affiliated DT2 feed to the KFVE license, and/or the retention of the MyNetworkTV affiliation, which Raycom did not include in the KFVE intellectual property transaction.) The sale of KFVE to Nexstar was approved by the FCC on December 17; the Gray-Raycom merger was approved three days later. The sale was completed on January 2, 2019. Programming As of September 2022, KHNL generally clears all NBC programming. However, some network shows (particularly those airing outside of prime time) are aired out of pattern. NBC News Daily, which replaced Days of Our Lives on the network's daytime schedule on September 12, 2022, after the soap opera moved exclusively to streaming on Peacock, airs on KHNL at 11:00 a.m. local time following Today with Hoda & Jenna. The station had previously aired Days of Our Lives at 1:00 p.m. (its usual network timeslot) and the rest of NBC's daytime programming in pattern from the start of its NBC affiliation in 1996. KHNL also airs the shows featured within NBC's The More You Know E/I programming block in various timeslots throughout its weekly schedule rather than as a continuous block on weekends, largely due to the network's weekend sports programming airing live on the station during the late morning and afternoon hours when the E/I block would otherwise air. News operation KHNL presently broadcasts 27 hours of locally produced