[4] An administrative law judge's initial decision, released in September 1984, found in favor of Bloomington 63 because it did not own other broadcast properties.
[6] Little progress was made on the station in the next three years; it was not until June 1988 that a permit to build the tower came before Johnson County zoning board members.
By that time, Sinclair opted to affiliate WIIB with the Home Shopping Network (HSN) instead of assembling a general-entertainment independent lineup.
As Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations at that time forbade the common ownership of two full-power commercial television stations in the same market, and after originally announcing their plans to sell channel 63, the Smith brothers changed their ownership interests in WIIB to non-attributable status and sold controlling interest to David C.
[12] Channel 63, Inc., then sold the station for $35 million to RDP Communications (also known as DP Media), a company controlled by other members of the Paxson family.
[14] In January 2001, in conjunction with a joint sales agreement that Paxson had signed with NBC affiliate WTHR (channel 13), WIPX-TV began airing rebroadcasts of that station's 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts on an hour tape delay on weeknights.