When KNVA in Austin, Texas, became a sole CW affiliate in October 2009 after carrying MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation, KWKB became the only station in the country to have carried the full CW and MyNetworkTV lineups including The CW's Saturday morning children's block Toonzai (although CW affiliates KCWI in Des Moines, WLMT in Memphis and KXVO in Omaha carried WWE SmackDown!
[2] Concurrently, KWKB switched to This TV, taking that affiliation from KWWL's second subchannel.
In February 2011, KWKB began carrying the Antenna TV network on digital subchannel 20.2 until January 2015 when Antenna TV moved to KCRG-TV's digital subchannel 9.3.
In June 2018, Chicago-based KM Communications announced that it would sell KWKB to HC2 Holdings for $1,850,000;[4] the sale was completed on January 29, 2019.
On March 18, 2021, it was announced that KWKB and sister station KPNZ in Ogden, Utah, would be sold to Marion, Illinois–based Tri-State Christian Television for $4 million.