News Operation
WJBK currently broadcasts 63.5 hours of locally-produced newscasts each week – the most of any United States television station – with 10.5 hours each weekday and 5.5 hours each Saturday and Sunday. Since 1997, the station's news department has been branded as Fox 2 News. On April 2008, the station became the first Fox-owned station (and the third television station in Detroit) to broadcast its news programming in high definition. It has a fleet of Ford E350 ENG vehicles with microwave transmission and video editing capabilities. The station also has (SNG) mobile satellite uplink capability. For aerial news coverage, WJBK shares a Eurocopter AS350BA A-star news helicopter with WXYZ-TV and WDIV as part of a Local News Service agreement. The aircraft has HD video capability and goes by the callsign "Red Bird". It brands its aerial coverage as "SkyFox". In 2009, WJBK and WXYZ-TV expanded the LNS agreement to allow the sharing of local news video.
In an effort to cut expenses both station's parent companies, Fox and E.W. Scripps, respectively, established an LNS in all markets where both companies own stations. The stations pool newsgathering resources and share video during coverage of general news events. While the news department primary focuses its local news coverage on southeastern Michigan, it also provides coverage of larger stories in southwestern Ontario, northern Ohio and the rest of Michigan. In 2006, WJBK revamped its Fox2Detroit.com website and debuted the MyFox website myfoxdetroit.com that is a format similar to websites adopted by all the other Fox stations.
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