News Operation
For most of its history according to Nielsen ratings, WCHS has been a distant runner up to longtime dominant WSAZ-TV. This station and WOWK are usually more competitive in Charleston but WCHS ultimately has higher viewership. The two outlets have rarely come close to WSAZ except for a brief period in the late-1990s when WOWK overtook it for first place in the Charleston side of the market. WSAZ also came in a close second to WCHS for a short period in late 2009-early 2010. This was due to lower lead-in numbers originated by The Jay Leno Show and WSAZ has since regained its first place ratings.
WCHS currently uses the Eyewitness News branding for its news operation and produces three newscasts for sister station WVAH. This includes Eyewitness News This Morning on Fox 11 seen for an hour on weekday mornings from 7 until 8. There is also an hour long nightly prime time broadcast known as Eyewitness News at 10 on Fox 11. Although it competes with a nightly show at 10 on MyNetworkTV affiliate WSAZ-DT2, WVAH's broadcast is the market's only sixty minute late night news.
During the yearly college football season, its Saturday night newscast at 6 is regularly pre-empted by game coverage from the network. Unlike most ABC affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone, WCHS does not air news weeknights at 5 and/or 5:30.
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