By which I mean ALL stations in one DMA that produce high-definition news. I don't know which one became the first, but the Quad Cities Area is getting closer to being the next. Tomorrow morning, WQAD News 8 will mark the premiere of their new 'state-of-the-art' news set on tomorrow morning, and KLJB is also expected to experience the hi-def goodness. That will mark all 4 stations airing QC news in HD!
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Markets with full hi-def news (QC on the way...)
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In the Raleigh-Durham market, all three news operations are HD. Locally-owned WRAL-TV* (CBS) was first with an all-HD newsroom on January 28, 2001. ABC O&O WTVD** followed in April of 2008 and, finally, Media General-owned NBC affiliate WNCN went all-HD in July of 2010.
*-Fox affiliate WRAZ-TV, which is owned by WRAL-TV parent company Capitol Broadcasting continued their separately branded "Fox 50 10 O'clock News" in SD until rebranding it as "WRAL News on Fox 50" in the mid-2000s. At this time, all local news on WRAZ became HD as well.
**-CW affiliate WLFL (Sinclair) had a news operation that never went HD. It was discontinued in 2006 and WTVD began airing a 10 p.m. newscast on WLFL, which, along with WTVD, went HD in 2008.
*-Fox affiliate WRAZ-TV, which is owned by WRAL-TV parent company Capitol Broadcasting continued their separately branded "Fox 50 10 O'clock News" in SD until rebranding it as "WRAL News on Fox 50" in the mid-2000s. At this time, all local news on WRAZ became HD as well.
**-CW affiliate WLFL (Sinclair) had a news operation that never went HD. It was discontinued in 2006 and WTVD began airing a 10 p.m. newscast on WLFL, which, along with WTVD, went HD in 2008.
I believe Cleveland was the first large market with all major news operations in HD:
WKYC/3 (NBC)
WEWS/5 (ABC)
WJW/8 (Fox, first HD in the market)
WOIO/19 (CBS)
There's an asterisk or two here, too...the local news operation at WMFD/68 Mansfield, on the southwest fringe of the market, is not in HD...but that is a local station that doesn't serve the entire DMA, though it is in the local channels package of both satellite services.
WKYC used to produce a newscast for the Akron/Canton part of the market, first on WVPX/23 (Pax/Ion), later on Time Warner Cable, that was not ever in HD. The newscast went away some time ago.
WKYC/3 (NBC)
WEWS/5 (ABC)
WJW/8 (Fox, first HD in the market)
WOIO/19 (CBS)
There's an asterisk or two here, too...the local news operation at WMFD/68 Mansfield, on the southwest fringe of the market, is not in HD...but that is a local station that doesn't serve the entire DMA, though it is in the local channels package of both satellite services.
WKYC used to produce a newscast for the Akron/Canton part of the market, first on WVPX/23 (Pax/Ion), later on Time Warner Cable, that was not ever in HD. The newscast went away some time ago.
NYC has more than 8 stations with local news if you include non-English language stations.
Here in Hartford/New Haven, the first HD newscasts were with WVIT-TV (NBC) channel 30 of New Britain/Hartford. Next up was WTNH-TV (ABC) channel 8 of New Haven. It was in widescreen SD at first, but is now in HD. WTIC-TV (FOX) channel 61 of Hartford started their newscasts in HD once they moved into the building of their co-owned The Hartford Courant newspaper on Broad Street last year. The oddity in the Hartford/New Haven market has got to be WFSB-TV (CBS) channel 3 of Hartford. Despite being the perennial ratings champion and moving into a brand new building to the south in Rocky Hill, CT a few years ago, their newscasts are still in 4:3 SD the last time I checked. Anchorman Dennis House insisted that they're ready to go in HD. Pretty much all of their syndicated shows are aired in HD and so are the local segments of Better Connecticut.
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