News Operation
Before switching networks to CBS, KEYE (then KBVO) had no newscasts with the exception of nightly, three-minute updates aired during Fox prime time from a small closet studio. After the affiliation swap, on July 3, 1995, KEYE immediately launched a full slate of newscasts. Since that time, the first newscast to be dropped was the noon show, the station has also added and since dropped three new hours of weekend morning newscasts. KEYE started out with an Eyewitness News format (titled K-EYEwitness News), which was used until 2000 (the newscast title was shorted to KEYE News in late 1998, which was used until the "CBS Mandate" was put in place and the title became CBS 42 K-EYE News and then simply CBS 42 News).
KEYE started producing newscasts in high definition on November 1, 2007. The transition made KEYE the first station in the Austin market — and the first station in the Four Points Media Group — to produce and air newscasts in HD. However, while the in-studio video is in high definition, most of the field video remains in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition.
KEYE was one of only eight Nexstar-owned or managed stations before the Sinclair acquisition of the station to broadcast local newscasts in high definition or 16:9 widescreen (five of the others are KUTV, KARK-TV, KARZ-TV, KOZL-TV and KOLR — all of which, like KEYE, also broadcast in partial high definition). WFRV-TV and satellite station WJMN-TV made the upgrade to high-definition newscasts in late June 2011, just prior to Nexstar's completion of the purchases of the two stations.
The station canceled its 5 p.m. newscast in September 2009, replacing it with We Are Austin LIVE, an hour-long 4 p.m. lifestyle show anchored by Michelle Valles and Jason Wheeler. A few weeks later, the morning newscast was canceled and later replaced with a simulcast of the "J.B. and Sandy Morning Show" on KAMX Mix 94.7 FM; this left KEYE with only the 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts and a 5:30 p.m. newscast on Sunday evenings. On June 30, 2011, the simulcast of the J.B. and Sandy Morning Show was replaced by We Are Austin Mornings, an extension of We Are Austin LIVE, the first in-house produced morning newscast on KEYE-TV since October 2009; the change was due in part to KEYE and Entercom-owned KAMX being unable to reach a renewal agreement for Channel 42 to continue airing the JB and Sandy Morning Show simulcast. The program's format is similar to that of national morning news programs like Today, Good Morning America and The Early Show. On May 31, 2012, KEYE-TV announced the reversal of its September 2009 late afternoon news programming changes with cancellation of We Are Austin LIVE effective June 15 (to be replaced with The Insider and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire), the 5 p.m. newscast will also return to the schedule starting June 18, 2012.
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