In 1999, the station joined The WB as secondary affiliate after the Superstation feed of Chicago's WGN-TV dropped the network as there was enough stations nationwide to carry it. KSKN aired both networks (with WB programming airing from 6 to 8 p.m. and UPN from 8 to 10 p.m.) til 2002, when it dropped its UPN affiliation and became a primary WB affiliate (UPN would return to Spokane a year later when KQUP signed on). It would gradually began dropping weekday cartoons from 1999 to 2006, due to changes in the broadcast industry. Belo, who bought out ProJo back in 1997, bought KSKN outright in October 2001. In January 2006, it was announced that The WB and UPN would merge in September 2006 to form The CW Television Network. It was confirmed on April 10 that KSKN would become the new affiliate for The CW. On June 13, 2013, the Gannett Company announced that it would acquire Belo. The sale was completed on December 23, making KSKN Gannett's first CW-affiliated station outside of digital subchannels under its ownership. KSKN became the first station in Spokane to air their news (sister station KREM) from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. in September 2014. On June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. KSKN and KREM were retained by the latter company, named Tegna.