Bahakel Communications sold WBAK to Mission Broadcasting in 2003, which then entered into a joint sales agreement with Nexstar Broadcasting Group. The station integrated its operations with WTWO at that station's facility near Farmersburg. The station's call letters were changed to WFXW (for FoX Wabash Valley) on June 1, 2005. On April 16, 2008, a transmission line failure at WFXW's analog transmitter facility that occurred approximately ten minutes into Fox's telecast of "American Idol"s results show left the station off the air for 3½ weeks; the station's analog signal remained dark until May 9. However, its digital signal was fed to area cable system headends and to Dish Network to restore service. The "American Idol" performance and result shows during the week of April 21 aired on sister station WTWO.