Veterans Broadcasting was merged into Rust Craft Broadcasting in February 1965. This resulted in the breakup of the WROC stations, as WROC (AM) and WPXY were later sold by Rust-Craft to members of the firm's broadcast management team. Within a few years, however, Ziff Davis broke up its television group; WROC-TV and sister stations in Saginaw, Michigan, Augusta, Georgia and Steubenville, Ohio were spun-off to Television Station Partners LP, a group composed of Ziff Davis's broadcast executives, in 1983. Television Station Partners sold channel 8, along with the Saginaw and Steubenville outlets, to Smith Broadcasting in 1996. Nexstar then purchased WROC-TV in 1999, which makes WROC-TV one of Nexstar's oldest stations.