On paper, the switch should have put WBAK in even more trouble. While it had languished as an ABC affiliate, it now faced having to purchase an additional 16 hours of programming per day. Fox had only expanded its prime time schedule to seven nights a week two years earlier, but did not produce any daytime programming (outside of the network's children's block Fox Kids, which already aired Monday through Saturdays before the expansion of prime time programming). However, the switch rejuvenated the station. Within a few years, WBAK became one of the strongest small-market Fox affiliates in the United States.