There was also an increase in the hours of news per week.

Today, it has 40 hours a week of local news.

"You might see two or three more hours of news in prime time," he said.

The tape would be played as a live segment during the news hour.

On Sunday mornings, the station added an hour of local news at 8.

With that addition, this station offers more than thirty hours of local news each week.

It broadcasts four and a half hours of local news every weekday.

Before this, the station ran two hours of news from 5-7 p.m.

Each news hour is independent of the others since we have viewers joining our live signal around the globe.

And the network offers more hours of news and cultural programming than ever before.