News Operation
Soon after the Viacom-CBS merger in 2001, WBFS began to air a nightly 10 o'clock newscast produced by WFOR. This was the third prime time broadcast in the market after WSVN and WBZL (now WSFL-TV). In 2004, the station added a two-hour long extension of WFOR's weekday morning show at 7 replacing children's programming and competing with WSVN's Today in Florida. Starting in June 2007, Beatriz Canals (WBFS's former weeknight co-anchor and WFOR reporter) began co-anchoring on WFOR weeknights at 5 and 11. She took the place of Maggie Rodriguez who left for The Saturday Early Show. This arrangement was temporary until Shannon Hori from KTVT in Dallas was named the permanent replacement.
The weekday morning show on this station remained in a news format until 2008 when it became more of an entertainment and lifestyle program with news, weather, and traffic updates. It originated from an updated secondary set used for interviews. Due to tough financial times, several cuts were made to the station's news programming on October 17, 2008. WBFS's weekday morning and weekend prime time newscasts were canceled and there were also some personalities let go. On January 24, 2010, WFOR became the last major English-language station in the Miami area to begin broadcasting news in high definition. The broadcasts on WBFS were included in the upgrade. At some point in September, the weeknight newscast expanded to an hour. In September 2011, the newscast was canceled, leaving the Miami–Fort Lauderdale market without in-market competition to WSVN's 10 o'clock newscast. As a result, WBFS joined KSTW in Tacoma, Washington, WUPA in Atlanta, Georgia and WTOG in St. Petersburg, Florida as one of four CBS-owned stations without a newscast of any kind.
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