Newscasts
KOTV produces 8½ hours of local news each week for KQCW (1½ hours on weekdays, and a half-hour on Saturdays and Sundays).
On September 18, 2006, KRMG-AM and KQCW launched a weekday morning simulcast of the KRMG Morning Show, airing from 6-7 a.m. Also on that date, to compete with KOKI in the 9 o'clock timeslot, KOTV (whose owners, Griffin Communications, had purchased KQCW a year earlier) began to produce a half-hour nightly primetime newscast for KQCW to compete against Fox affiliate KOKI's 9 p.m. newscast, called The News on 6 at 9.
This partnership would later extend into the mornings, as on January 7, 2008, the 8-9 a.m. hour of KOTV's Six in the Morning moved to KQCW, in order for KOTV to be able to comply with the new CBS mandate that all of its affiliates must now broadcast the entire two hour broadcast of The Early Show.
On October 24, 2010, sister station KOTV-DT upgraded its news graphics and began broadcasting its newscasts in 16:9 enhanced widescreen standard definition. The KQCW shows were included in the upgrade.
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