chief operating officer Bryon Rubin, joked about the WLNY purchase as "the acquisition of our golf membership ... I mean TV station" on a private call in December 2020. The investigation, which also raised concerns about alleged racist, sexist and homophobic comments and the work environment at CBS-owned KYW-TV in Philadelphia, led to the network placing Dunn and Steve Friend, the senior vice president of news for the station group, on administrative leave, and their eventual termination. Programming Since CBS acquired WLNY in 2012, WLNY carries CBS network programming on occasions that WCBS-TV has preempted the network due to breaking news or severe weather coverage as well as New York Jets football games. As of October 1, 2016, the station carries the Go Time syndicated E/I block. The station airs a Yule Log annually on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, with holiday music simulcast from 101.1 WCBS-FM, along with Christmas Eve Midnight Mass (11:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m.) from St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre, New York. Sports WLNY-TV formerly carried sports programming from the ACC Network, particularly carrying Syracuse University's Orange basketball and football games, since Syracuse is located from New York City. This arrangement ended in 2019, when the pay TV-exclusive ACCN launched. During spring 2019, the station added Stadium digital sports network to its third subchannel. WLNY-TV has also infrequently aired New York Jets preseason games when sister network and main Jets preseason rights holder WCBS-TV has other conflicts. (This arrangement happened in 2017 and 2021 due to CBS' coverage of the PGA Tour.) Newscasts WLNY currently airs 12 hours of locally produced newscasts each week. WLNY airs a WCBS-produced newscast weekdays at 7 a.m., and CBS News New York Now each day at 9 p.m. As an independently owned station, WLIG/WLNY produced a local news program titled News 55, originally at 10 p.m. on weeknights, and a 7 p.m. newscast was later added. While the station had dropped its local newscasts in 1989, it continued to air a nightly five-minute news update (following an early evening feed from CNN Headline News) until a new full-fledged 10 p.m. newscast was launched in January 1994. Prior to the station's sale to CBS, WLNY's newscast ran for 35 minutes at 11 p.m. Monday through Fridays and was rebroadcast Tuesday through Saturday mornings at 5 a.m. WLNY also produced a weekly public affairs show, tv10/55 Focus. The news and public