On December 3, 2018, Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Media Group announced it would acquire Tribune in an all-cash deal valued at $6.4 billion, including the assumption of Tribune-held outstanding debt. The transaction—which, upon its closure on September 19, 2019, made Nexstar the largest television station operator by total number of stations—gave the KFOR/KAUT duopoly additional sister stations in Lawton–Wichita Falls (NBC affiliate KFDX-TV and SSA partners KJTL and KJBO-LP [MyNetworkTV), Wichita (the Kansas State Network group of NBC affiliates, led by flagship KSNW), Fort Smith–Fayetteville (NBC affiliate KNWA-TV and Fox affiliate KFTA-TV, which added a third sister station through the acquisition of MyNetworkTV affiliate KXNW, previously a duopoly partner of CBS affiliate KFSM-TV), Joplin–Pittsburg (NBC affiliate KSNF and ABC-affiliated SSA partner KODE-TV), Amarillo (NBC affiliate KAMR-TV and SSA partners KCIT and KCPN-LP [MyNetworkTV) and Shreveport–Texarkana (NBC affiliate KTAL-TV and SSA partners KMSS-TV and KSHV-TV [MyNetworkTV).