On April 4, 2008, Equity Media Holdings announced the sale of all five of its Southwest Florida stations (including WUVF and WLZE) to Luken Communications for $8 million.

[3] Equity Media Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2008;[4] offers by Luken Communications to acquire Equity-owned stations in six markets were later withdrawn.

[5] WUVF and WLZE were sold at auction to private equity firm Silver Point Capital on April 16, 2009.

[9] On April 1, 2019, Media Vista Group announced that it was selling its stations, including WUVF-LD, to Sun Broadcasting, Inc. for $9.75 million.

The newscasts were canceled in June 2008, after Equity instituted a companywide suspension of news programs as a cost-cutting measure.