News Operation
From its sign on in 1973, the station produced a 6:30 p.m. weeknight newscast known as the WIIL-TV Evening News. Due to low advertising and budget cuts, the production ended in 1974, though the station continued to provide weather updates in the evening hours.
In 1978, local news production returned in the form of News 38 which at one point was largely composed of former WTHI-TV news department employees. This incarnation of local news, which ran as a single daily broadcast, folded in 1981. No local newscasts were on WBAK-TV for the rest of its run as an ABC affiliate, though the station did produce Good Morning Terre Haute, which consisted of interviews and a weather forecast on weekdays. The station also produced weekly public affairs programming, including "Valley Point of View".
When the station switched affilitaion from ABC to Fox in 1995, an agreement was reached with WTHI-TV to provide a 10 o'clock prime time news for the newly christened "Fox 38". The station's morning interview program, Good Morning Terre Haute, continued for a short period as Valley Focus on Fox 38. This ended in 1996 as did the devotional program Faith To Live By. Valley Point of View, a weekly public affairs program produced by the Leadership Terre Haute organization, continued on this station until 2004. The WTHI-produced newscast lasted until December 31, 2003, shortly after WBAK entered into the JSA with WTWO. In mid-2004, that station premiered its own 10 P.M. newscast on WBAK entitled NewsChannel 2 Prime Edition. This broadcast utilized the same talent and resources as WTWO's weeknight 6 and 11 newscasts.
After the call letter switch, the 10 o'clock news was re-branded to Fox 38 News at 10 for a brief period then later to WFXW Prime Edition. At that point, the broadcast featured its own news anchor, set, graphics, and music package. On June 7, 2007, the branding was amended to WTWO Prime Edition on WFXW. The format of the newscast was once again essentially the same as WTWO by this point and featured the main WTWO talent and no longer utilized a separate news set.
On June 8, 2009, the news was revamped and re-branded again to Fox 38 News: First at 10. Though still produced by WTWO, the broadcast once again featured a separate news set, graphics package (the same used by many Fox owned-and-operated stations and affiliates), and the news music package Extreme by Stephen Arnold Music. It used to be solo anchored by Leanne Tokars who returned to the station in 2009, but left again in later 2010. She originally anchored the first WTWO-produced Fox 38 News at 10 incarnation in 2005. WFXW also carried rebroadcasts of WTWO's 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. weekday newscasts, airing both one hour later. After a few months the 6 p.m. rebroadcast was dropped, while the 6 a.m. rebroadcast at 7 a.m. continued.
Following the station's disaffiliation with Fox and re-affiliation with ABC, WTWO's 5 p.m. newscast, Live at Five, moved to WAWV-TV, featuring longtime WTWO anchor Tom McClanahan. However, the 7 a.m. rebroadcast of WTWO's weekday morning newscast was dropped, as ABC airs Good Morning America in that timeslot (though local news and weather updates will be provided during that program, along with half-hourly news and weather updates seen throughout the day, and a special agricultural-related forecast during AgDay on weekday mornings); the existing 10 p.m. newscast was removed from the station as well, as unlike Fox, ABC provides primetime network programming during that hour, though the newscast was transitioned into the online-only WAWV First at Ten, a 15-minute program that is streamed on the website shared by WTWO/WAWV; the station otherwise does not carry a newscast in the traditional 11 p.m. timeslot. On September 10, 2012, WAWV launched a half-hour midday newscast at noon on weekdays.
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