News Operation
Currently, WPMT broadcasts a total of 32 hours of local newscasts per week (with seven hours on weekdays and one hour on weekends).
As a CBS affiliate, WSBA-TV simulcast WLYH's local newscasts. This arrangement ended in 1983, when the station became WPMT. Local newscasts would not be found on the station until the debut of FOX 43 News at 10:00 in 1994. Eventually, this was joined by weekend evening news followed by the addition of a weekday morning show. The weeknight 10:00 broadcast competes with CW affiliate WLYH who airs a prime time newscast that is produced by CBS affiliate WHP. On September 4, 2009, WPMT began airing a local sports highlight program called High School Football Frenzy that airs Friday nights at 6:00 during the high school football season. On September 21, 2009, they began airing a weeknight newscast at 6:30 against the national news on the big three affiliates.
On October 26, 2009, WPMT launched a 24-hour cable news television channel, known as "FOX 43 News 24/7", available on Blue Ridge digital channel 126, Comcast digital channel 244, and on their second digital sub-channel. Programming consists of simulcasts and rebroadcasts of local news from the main channel. The station launched a weeknight 11:00 p.m. newscast on January 11, 2010.
On January 15, 2011, WPMT became the first station in Central Pennsylvania and the last Tribune-owned FOX-affiliated station to broadcast local news in high definition (in mid-December 2010, rival station, WGAL, had become the first station in the market to offer local newscasts in 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen. Although not truly high definition, the broadcasts were matched to the wider aspect ratio of HD television screens; WGAL switched to full HD on August 29, 2011). On January 9, 2012, WPMT expanded its early evening newscast to one hour with the addition of a half-hour at 6:00 p.m. On February 13, 2013, WPMT expanded it's weekday morning newscast to 5 hours, with a new start time of 4:00 a.m., becoming the first and only station in the market, and the fifth Tribune-owned station to broadcast it's morning news at 4:00 a.m. (WGAL and WHTM broadcast news at 4:30 while WHP still starts at 5:00 a.m.)
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