After Big Horn shut down KOUS-TV and moved its programming to KSVI (channel 6) in 1993, KCTZ became a satellite of KSVI. Later that year, Evening Post Publishing Company acquired the station and made it a satellite of KXLF-TV; two Cordillera-owned translators, K26DE (channel 26) in Bozeman and K43DU (channel 43) in Butte, then began carrying most of KSVI's programming (including ABC programming), as well as local Bozeman newscasts produced by Cordillera. After KWYB (channel 18) signed on in September 1996 and took the ABC affiliation in the Butte-Bozeman market, K43DU was taken off-the-air (the repeater was sold to Montana State University in 2001 and now carries Montana PBS); on October 31, after K26DE's ABC affiliation ended in advance of the launch of KWYB repeater K28FB (channel 28, now KWYB-LD), KCTZ became a Fox affiliate, and channel 26 became a repeater of KXLF. During this time, channel 7 also took on a secondary affiliation with UPN.