Sinclair's lack of interest in the available CBS affiliation left one other viable partner—WDJT-TV—but CBS first made a longshot attempt to purchase another local station. It offered to buy Christian television station WVCY-TV, owned by Wisconsin Voice of Christian Youth, for $10 million to convert it into its new Milwaukee affiliate. The deal was rebuffed on grounds that the offer was "unreasonably low" and that a sale to a network would be a hypocritical "act of consummate irresponsibility".
