News Operation
As a CBS affiliate, WTVX operated a local news department from its main studios in Fort Pierce and maintained newsrooms in Stuart and West Palm Beach. Soon after the loss of the affiliation, it began to phase out its newscasts eventually ceasing them completely by the summer of 1989. At one point as a CW affiliate, the station aired short news updates under the title CW News Now on its website. In the summer of 2008, WTVX established its second local news department and debuted CW West Palm News at 10 on August 4. This production initially aired seven nights a week for 35 minutes and in high definition starting on September 15. As its first news broadcast to air in nearly twenty years, it competed with the well-established nightly prime time newscast on Fox affiliate WFLX (then produced by WPEC).
As was the case with that station, WTVX's show also rated in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale market where it competed with similar newscasts on WSVN and WBFS-TV. At some point in time, the Saturday night broadcast was dropped for an unknown reason. On March 2, 2009, WTVX moved its weeknight newscast to 6:30 in order to offer a local alternative to the national news programs airing on the area's big three stations. On June 8, 2009, the station discontinued the newscast altogether due to low ratings and inconsistent viewership. Throughout its life, WTVX's newscast was produced by owner Four Points Media Group in conjunction with sister station KUTV.
The broadcast originated from a secondary set at that station's studios on Main Street in Downtown Salt Lake City. The station's studios in West Palm Beach functioned as a news bureau with two local reporters providing content. Currently on weekdays, the station airs the second hour (from 7 until 8) of the nationally syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz. With WTVX and WPEC now sister stations, it remains to be seen if the CBS affiliate will produce local newscasts on this outlet in order to compete with WFLX (which now has local news produced by WPTV). However, most of Sinclair's CW affiliates currently air no local newscasts at all, making this possibility unlikely. WTVX, WTCN, and WWHB have yet to have their physical operations consolidated with WPEC which would be the first step to eventually add newscasts.
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