Weigel instead opted to use the subchannel to launch its new national service Decades. News operation After offering a five-minute newsbreak at 10 p.m. as a stopgap, WDJT-TV debuted weeknight early and late evening newscasts from its new West Allis facilities on March 18, 1996. The original news team consisted largely of younger on-air personalities, including a reporter on the local entertainment beat, while the total news staff numbered 35. The intention was to match a shift in CBS's network programming at the time toward young audiences. However, when CBS shifted toward older viewers, WDJT-TV found itself needing to retool the news operation; as part of the changes, in 1997, the station also added weekend newscasts. A morning newscast was added in 2001, but the station was still not considered a contender in the Milwaukee market. More recent news expansions include a noon newscast in 2011, an expansion of the morning news to a 4:30 a.m. start in 2013, the introduction of 4 p.m. news in 2015, and additional newscasts on weekend mornings in 2021. The WDJT newsroom provides news aired on three of Weigel's local stations. In 1997, when W46AR (now WYTU-LD) moved to the new Lincoln Park tower, WDJT began offering Spanish-language local news updates given by a bilingual reporter, Saúl Garza. A regular nightly newscast in Spanish debuted in 2007. Since 2008, the station has produced a 9 p.m. newscast for WMLW, which began as a trial during the 2007 World Series (when Fox affiliate WITI was committed to baseball coverage) and became an hour-long program in 2016. In 2020, a 7 a.m. morning news extension also debuted on WMLW. WDJT-TV also produced the newscast aired by WBND-LD, Weigel's ABC affiliate in South Bend, Indiana, until Weigel established its own newsroom there in April 2011. In 2007, one of the station's newsgathering vehicles, parked on ice during a story on ice safety at Big Muskego Lake in Muskego, fell through the ice and sank, a loss worth as much as $250,000. Notable former on-air staff Dawn Mitchell – sports anchor/reporter Tammie Souza – chief meteorologist Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed with standard-definition versions of the main feeds of WBME-CD, WMLW-TV, and WYTU-LD, as well as Weigel's Start TV diginet, which are only broadcast at low power on their originating stations. Analog-to-digital conversion WDJT-TV shut down its analog signal on channel 58, at 11:59