The two stations share studios on Marywood Drive in Henderson, Kentucky; WTVW's transmitter is located just outside of Chandler, Indiana.

Evansville Television went into bankruptcy in 1959, putting WTVW in the hands of a trustee;[6] in 1962, the station was acquired by Polaris Corporation,[7][8] which merged with Natco Corp., a subsidiary of Fuqua Industries, in 1966.

[9] Fuqua decided to leave broadcasting in 1979;[10] the following year, WTVW was purchased by Charles Woods,[11] owner of WTVY-FM-TV in Dothan, Alabama.

[29] Under the SSA, FCC filings by Nexstar placed a limit on the amount of news programming seen on WTVW's overall schedule to 15% (equivalent to 25 hours per week).

WTVW began carrying The CW's daytime and prime time schedule on that date; however the Saturday morning Vortexx children's block did not begin airing for another two months, on April 6, 2013, due to contractual obligations with paid programming providers through the end of March for their purchased Saturday morning timeslots, along with the station's existing E/I programs purchased through the syndication market.

On April 24, 2013, Communications Corporation of America (owner of WEVV) announced the sale of its entire group to Nexstar.

Since there are fewer than eight full-power stations in the Evansville market, Nexstar and its partner company Mission were legally unable to purchase WEVV.

[37] By coincidence, WEVV purchased WTVW's former Carpenter Street facility in 2014 and remodeled it to relaunch their news operation in August 2015.

[38][39] WTVW broadcasts National Football League preseason games involving three different NFL teams during the month of August.

[40] Raycom's ACC Network syndication service, which provides Atlantic Coast Conference football and basketball games, moved to WTVW from WFIE-DT2 in 2016.

When WTVW joined Fox, news programming on the station was expanded to two hours on weekday mornings, along with the addition of a 5 p.m. newscast.

After becoming an independent station, WTVW expanded its 6 p.m. newscast to seven nights a week on July 9, 2011 (the program previously ran only on Monday through Saturdays, with the Saturday edition extended to one hour with the expansion), later followed on September 19, 2011, by the debut of a one-hour extension of the morning newscast called Local 7 News Lifestyles.

[31][42][43][44] On August 13, 2012, WEHT and WTVW began broadcasting their local newscasts in high definition, with a new news set, HD cameras and forecasting equipment.

[45] The station's signal is multiplexed: On December 2, 2013, Nexstar Broadcasting announced an affiliation agreement with Bounce TV (owned by Bounce Media LLC, whose COO Jonathan Katz is president/CEO of Katz Broadcasting) to carry the digital network on digital subchannels of WTVW and Fort Wayne sister station WFFT.