The station had been issued a construction permit on at least two occasions to increase its power to a full million watts, which is equivalent to five million watts in analog. However, the station never began construction on its full-power digital facility due to a number of issues, including difficulty acquiring land. When the station failed to build out its full-power digital facility by an FCC-imposed deadline, the FCC revoked the license on March 24, 2011. On July 15, 2011, Newkirk reported that WAZE's digital signal was still on the air (or at the very least had resumed operations at some point following the FCC's cancellation of its license) without any official approval from the FCC; according to FCC rules, unauthorized broadcasting of a television station can result in a minimum fine of $10,000. However, by spring 2012, the station's digital signal had gone off the air for good.