News Operation
WCCB aired newscasts at various times between 1964 until it lost its ABC affiliation in 1978. It reduced its news department to a skeleton staff after going independent and did not carry a regularly scheduled newscast again until 1994, when it began airing a nightly 10 p.m. broadcast produced by WSOC-TV. In 1999, WCCB announced plans to launch its own news department. That summer, WSOC-TV relocated its primetime newscast to sister station WAXN-TV. WCNC then temporarily took over production of WCCB's newscasts until the launch of WCCB's in-house news department on January 1, 2000, with the debut of a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast. Ironically, the WCNC-produced newscast on WCCB drew a larger audience at the time than the newscasts that actually aired on WCNC.
On September 28, 2008, beginning with the 10 p.m. newscast, WCCB became the second station in Charlotte to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. The upgrade included the debut of a brand new high-definition news set.
In the February 2011 ratings, the station's weekday morning newscast Fox News Rising, placed fourth behind WSOC, WBTV and WCNC. The station's 10 p.m. newscast regained the lead from the WSOC-produced newscast on WAXN, while the WBTV-produced program on WJZY finished third. The 10 p.m. broadcast also draws a larger audience than any WCNC newscast.
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