News Programming
On May 1, 2006, WNOL debuted a half-hour weeknight newscast at 9 p.m. that was produced by sister station WGNO; it competed against an hour-long in-house newscast on Fox affiliate WVUE in that timeslot. Dismal ratings resulted in the newscast's cancellation after a four-year run, with the last edition airing on June 4, 2010; three days later on June 7, WNOL shifted The CW's primetime programming schedule one hour later to 8-10 p.m. (instead of the network-recommended 7-9 p.m. slot for the network's affiliates in the Central Time Zone), with syndicated programming filling the 7 p.m. hour.
As a result of the newscast's cancellation, WNOL is currently one of only five Tribune-owned television stations that do not not carry daily newscasts (alongside WDCW/Washington, D.C., WCCT/Hartford-New Haven, WTTV/Indianapolis and WSFL/Miami).
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