On April 1, 1994, KTVG's operations were taken over by Fant Broadcasting, owner of the ABC-affiliated Nebraska Television Network (NTV, composed of KHGI-TV, channel 13, and satellites KWNB-TV, channel 6 and KSNB-TV, channel 4), under a local marketing agreement (LMA); Hill Broadcasting's owner, Robert Hill, also ran Fant-owned WNAL-TV in Gadsden, Alabama. KTVG then became an affiliate of the Fox network; this was subsequently supplemented by a secondary UPN affiliation. For several years thereafter, KTVG carried live simulcasts of KHGI's newscasts. Pappas took over KTVG's operations on July 1, 1996, after it agreed to purchase NTV from Fant and immediately assumed control under an LMA; that September, Fant and Pappas converted KSNB-TV from a satellite of KHGI to satellite of KTVG, expanding the availability of Fox programming in central Nebraska. This created an instance of a satellite station older than its parent, as KSNB signed on in 1965.