7, 2017, when the station began airing the block locally from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on an all-year round basis. Syndicated programming broadcast by WTTO/WDBB () includes Modern Family, Hot Bench, The Andy Griffith Show, The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men. Like WABM, WTTO/WDBB is one or two of the few remaining U.S. television stations that continues to sign off during the overnight hours, occurring on Sunday night/early Monday mornings from midnight to 5:00 a.m. Sports programming In August 2009, WTTO/WDBB acquired the broadcast rights to ESPN Regional Television's SEC Network syndication service, carrying most regular season college basketball and football games from the Southeastern Conference, as well as games from the first three rounds of the SEC men's basketball tournament; this agreement ended when ESPN discontinued the service in 2012, upon the launch of a conference-focused cable-only network of the same name. In September 2015, WTTO/WDBB became the local broadcast rightsholder to the ACC Network syndication service, airing most regular season football and basketball games from selected teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference as well as games from the first three rounds of the ACC men's basketball tournament. Most college football and basketball telecasts on the station air on Saturday afternoons during the fall and winter months, respectively, with occasional prime time games on weeknights (the station will reschedule CW prime time shows to air on weekend evenings if an evening game is scheduled, preempting movies usually aired on Saturday and Sunday evenings between 7:00 and 9:00 p.m., as The CW itself does not run network programming on those nights, and occasionally those usually aired in weekend afternoon timeslots). WTTO/WDBB assumed the rights to the ACC Network from sister station WABM, which passed on the rights due to its commitments to the Sinclair-owned American Sports Network ad hoc syndication service. Newscasts WTTO launched its own in-house news operation on September 8, 2003, and began airing a nightly hour-long prime time newscast, titled WB21 News at 9:00. The program was developed and formatted around the News Central local/national hybrid news concept created by Sinclair that year; local news segments originated from the station's Beacon Parkway studios in Birmingham, while national news, weather and sports segments were based out of studios located at Sinclair's corporate headquarters on Beaver Dam Road in Hunt Valley, Maryland. In addition, WTTO also aired "The Point", a controversial one-minute conservative political