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WPXI was the first station to offer a 5:30 p.m. newscast in Pittsburgh from 1981 to 1984 (titled 5:30 Live); it was then revived in 1987 with the name Channel 11 News First Edition. It was also the first station to offer a 5 p.m. newscast in the early 1990s, titled Channel 11 News First at 5.
PCNC first started broadcasting on January 1, 1994, created in a partnership between WPXI (Channel 11) and the region's largest cable TV company at the time, TCI. Comcast stopped carrying PCNC on January 1, 2020, [2] which significantly reduced the potential viewing audience. WPXI added PCNC to its digital subchannel lineup in early March 2023.
The 35-minute newscast competes with a nightly newscast at 10 p.m. on Fox affiliate WPGH-TV that is produced by WPXI. On September 12, 2005, WNPA debuted a two-hour extension of KDKA-TV's weekday morning newscast airing from 7 to 9 a.m. [40] This was later [when?] shortened to one hour amid poor ratings, but the 8 a.m. hour was restored in 2019.
In 2001, KDKA-TV began producing a 10 p.m. newscast on WNPA (now WPKD-TV); [31] in 2005, it added a two-hour weekday morning newscast from 7 to 9 a.m. on that station [32] (which was later reduced to one hour from 7 to 8 a.m., but in 2019 the 8 a.m. hour was restored). On June 16, 2009, KDKA-TV began broadcasting its local newscasts in high ...
By 1990, WTAE-TV was beginning to focus more on news, and in 1992 dropped the entire ABC Saturday morning cartoon lineup for a 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 hour newscast (which WPXI was also doing, beginning in 1990). WTAE-TV also expanded its midday newscast to an hour and dropped The Home Show during 1991.
Jodi Applegate (born May 2, 1964) [1] is an American broadcast journalist. She served as an anchorwoman at local stations as well as nationally for MSNBC and NBC News . Life and career
The Retro Television Network began airing on WJAC-TV's second digital subchannel in the late December 2008. [13] Along with then-sister station WPXI, WJAC-TV 6.2 transitioned to MeTV at midnight on June 13, 2011, immediately following an episode of Ellery Queen, at which point the channel was switched to the MeTV feed for the start of Hogan's Heroes.
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