Newscasts
On July 24, 2006, WISE-TV introduced the market's only prime time newscast at 10 to this subchannel. Known on-air as Indiana's NewsCenter Prime News, the weeknight thirty-minute show pre-empted regular NBC Weather Plus programming normally seen in the time slot. It began to be simulcasted on WPTA-DT2 when that station added The CW in September. As a MyNetworkTV outlet, WISE-DT2 also repeated its parent station's weekday morning show at 7, WPTA's midday newscast (at 1 in the afternoon), and the weeknight 6 o'clock broadcast at 6:30. Although WISE-TV and WPTA became the only stations in Fort Wayne to upgrade local newscasts to 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen on May 18, 2009, all shows on WISE-DT2 remained in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition.
After WISE-DT2 joined Fox, Indiana's NewsCenter Prime News was finally upgraded to the widescreen format. WPTA-DT2's simulcast of that program as well as the repeats of local news on WISE-DT2 were dropped at some point in the fall of 2011. Corresponding to WISE-TV and WPTA performing a further upgrade to full HD newscasts, the prime time newscast on this subchannel was relaunched as MyFox Fort Wayne News at 10 on October 14, 2012 and began originating from a new secondary set. The show also introduced an updated graphics package and news music theme that is separate from local news programs airing on the main WISE-TV channel. The broadcast remained a weeknight half-hour production. On February 5, 2013 when it was announced that Fox programming would move back to WFFT on March 1, the prime time newscast ended its run.
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