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The feud ended in May 1996, when WAKC canceled its news operation after being purchased by Paxson Communications and dropped all ABC programming in December 1996 to air infomercials and religious programming under the WVPX-TV call letters.

It would eventually settle in as the Cleveland / Akron market's outlet for the Pax TV network, which is now Ion Television.

Despite this, WAKR / WAKC became a " farm station " of sorts for TV 5 ; its most notable alumni were Ted Henry-who was a weather anchor at WAKR prior to his long association with WEWS, and Mark Johnson-former WAKC meteorologist who has been with WEWS since 1997.