In 1968, CBS moved to WKYT when WBLG-TV (now WTVQ-TV) signed on and took the ABC affiliation, making WLEX a full-time NBC affiliate. For many years, the station was owned by the Gay & Bell families until they sold WLEX to the Evening Post Publishing Company (now Evening Post Industries) of Charleston, South Carolina in 1999. Of the 13 stations owned by Evening Post Industries, WLEX was the only one east of the Mississippi River, and thus the only station in the group whose call letters begin with a W.