News Operation
Currently, WGCL broadcasts a total of 34½ hours of local newscasts every week (with six hours on weekdays, 2 hours on Saturdays and 1½ hours on Sundays). Unlike most CBS affiliates, the station did not carry local newscasts in weekend morning timeslots until September 22, 2012 when they were added on Saturdays from 9:00-10:00 a.m. and Sundays from 8:30-9:00 a.m.
In 1989, WGNX started its first ever newscast, Channel 46 News at Ten, a nightly primetime newscast at 10 p.m. After affiliating with CBS, WGCL (as WGNX) moved the 10 p.m. newscast to 11 p.m. and added newscasts at noon and 6 p.m., as well as a short-lived 7:30 p.m. newscast. It would add on a short-lived 5 p.m. newscast, a morning newscast, and a 4 p.m. newscast as well.
On January 11, 2009, WGCL became the third station (behind WSB-TV and WXIA-TV) to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition. With the switch to HD, WGCL has rebranded back to "CBS Atlanta", which it used in 1999 and 2002. Weekend evening meteorologist Justin Lock is currently the only meteorologist at WGCL's weather department that has earned a Seal of Approval in Broadcast Meteorology, as Lock earned a television seal of approval from the American Meteorological Society.
Unlike most television station news operations, WGCL does not operate its own sports department; in October 2009, WGCL announced that it would shut down its in-house sports department and laid off sports anchors Gil Tyree and Mark Harmon in a cost-cutting decision; the station then outsourced sports coverage to local sports talk radio station WQXI (790 kHz). On August 30, 2010, WGCL added an hour-long 5 p.m. newscast, this created a 2½ hour block of local news that begins with the existing hour-long 4 p.m. newscast and concludes with its 6 pm newscast. Then that fall, WGCL removed their noon newscast and add an additional newscast from 9 a.m to 10 a.m. In September 2012, it was announced that the morning show "Better Mornings Atlanta" will be extended to the weekends with anchors Jocelyn Connell. It did on the first weekend in October.
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