 After another month of legal fighting, WLCY-TV was finally awarded the ABC affiliation by court order.Channel 10 officially joined ABC in a special ceremony on September 1, leaving WSUN-TV as an independent station.The St. Petersburg city government soon realized it could not afford to buy an additional 19 hours of programming per day, and sold WSUN-AM and WSUN-TV to Hy Levinson of Detroit, owner of that city's WCAR radio (now WDFN).