[1]: 245  WEHT was originally owned by the Malco Theater Corporation of Memphis, Tennessee; minority interest was held by several Henderson businessmen for the first year.

[1]: 246  The move allowed WEHT to boast of reaching an additional 70,000 families in the area, with improved picture quality for its total audience of 250,000 households.

In mid-1995, WTVW was sold to Petracom Broadcasting, and as part of the deal, that station announced it was switching its affiliation from ABC to Fox.

The result brought about a network scramble in Evansville with WEHT quickly joining ABC and WEVV-TV (channel 44, the original Fox affiliate) switching to CBS.

On August 8, 2011, Gilmore announced it would sell WEHT to Nexstar Broadcasting Group, the owner of WTVW (which had lost its affiliation with Fox to a digital subchannel of WEVV-TV one month earlier).

As part of the deal, WTVW would be sold to Mission Broadcasting, with WEHT taking over its operations as the senior partner through shared services and joint sales agreements.

The transaction, which received Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval on October 12, was completed on December 1, 2011;[4] at that point, the station rebranded from News 25 to WEHT Local.

Since there are fewer than eight full-power stations in the Evansville market, Nexstar and its partner company Mission, cannot legally buy WEVV.

In the early-2000s through a news share agreement, WEHT produced the market's second prime time newscast at 9 on then-WB affiliate WAZE-TV (owned by Roberts Broadcasting).

The broadcast was eventually canceled due to low ratings and inconsistent viewership being unable to compete with then-Fox affiliate WTVW.

[10] Originally, WEHT-DT2 simulcast live news from the main channel in addition to offering repeats of those shows as well as local weather.

On November 7, 2011, Nexstar announced the layoff of 45 staffers effective November 30; news staffers laid off include weekday morning anchor Whitney Ray, sports director Mark McVicar, sports reporters Aaron Hancock and Sean Clark-Weis, and reporter Nick LaGrange.

[5][13][14][15][16] On August 13, 2012, WEHT began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, with a new news set, HD cameras and forecasting equipment.