Newscasts
In March 2000, WTVA began producing a Sunday through Friday night prime time newscast on WLOV-TV. Currently known as WLOV Fox News at Nine, this broadcast can be seen for thirty minutes. There has not been any plans made announced to launch a weekday morning show at 7 a.m. on WLOV (produced by WTVA) that would compete with a sixty minute show seen on MyNetworkTV affiliate WCBI-DT2. On April 20, 2009, WTVA became the first station in the market and second in the state to upgrade local news to high definition level (WLOV's show was included). Compared nationwide, it was the smallest market outlet that made the change.
With the addition of ABC network programming on WTVA-DT2, the subchannel also airs local news programming as per the terms of its affiliation agreement, featuring simulcasts of most local newscasts seen on the primary channel. More specifically, WTVA's half-hour midday newscast at noon on weekdays and one-hour news and talk program Kay Bain's Saturday Mornin' Show is not seen on WTVA-DT2. There are currently no local broadcasts seen exclusively on WTVA-DT2. The station operates a weather radar at its facilities that is known on-air as "StormTrack Doppler".
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