[7] In September, less than a year after starting up, KXWY-TV announced that it would be sold, along with KFWY-TV and the under-construction station at Rawlins (KRWY-TV), to a new company, First National Broadcasting.

[8] While the sale itself would languish for years, First National's hand in management and resources immediately became apparent in a series of major changes that took place in 1986.

Significant events started just after the new year: that January, the station relocated from its original Salt Creek Highway studio base to Skyview Drive and upgraded its Casper Mountain transmitter from 19,000 to 68,000 watts.

[13] The next month, it announced plans for a second transmitter power upgrade to 1.35 million watts and the addition of low-power translators in Douglas and Gillette.

[15] Trouble arose again in May 1987, when 26 station employees threatened to walk out on the job; the general manager attributed the payroll issues to the lengthy close of the sale to First National.

[18] However, channel 20 still had not actually been sold by 1988, when the Wyoming Division of Unemployment Insurance began a proceeding to obtain $66,000 in unpaid back taxes from KFNB.

[20] Ten days later, the Division of Unemployment Insurance ordered the station to cease operations for failure to pay back taxes.

The Division had won judgments against Channel 20 Casper in 1987 and 1988 for back taxes and interest, and was empowered to force the station out of business under state unemployment security laws.

[21] Although KFNB and its satellites now had stable ownership and were free of the debt accumulated during the abortive First National sale, they did not offer any local news.

[23] First National ended up with new licenses to replace those held by Stanton's interests for KFNE and KFNR; Wyomedia acquired the pair in 2007 for $30,000 in total debt forgiveness.

[27] The switch was moved up to March 8, 2004; at that time, KFNB became a full-time Fox affiliate and KWYF became the new home of UPN and Pax programming in Casper.

[36] By April 2022, the station began airing newscasts from the Coastal-owned and partly-centralized News Hub, recently acquired from Waypoint Media.

One of the stations, KFNE at Riverton, is older than KFNB by nearly 27 years, having begun operations as KWRB-TV from a base in Thermopolis in December 1957.