air an 11 p.m. newscast until 1991; until then, WIS offered the only late news in the market. In the second half of the 1990s, the station made several moves, including hiring Jim Blue and Leslie Mattox as its top anchor team, additional morning and 5 p.m. newscasts, and a rebrand as 25 Eyewitness News, to improve its position, However, just two months after hiring Blue and Mattox, Bahakel fired the general manager and news director. WOLO-TV gained a reputation as a station with instability in management and news leadership. In 2002, Bahakel migrated WOLO's operations—including production of its newscasts—to the studio facilities of sister station WCCB in Charlotte. Newsgathering continued to be based in Columbia, maintaining a news director and three teams of reporters to produce the daily newscasts. With the move, WOLO canceled its weekday morning and weekend newscasts, retaining only the weeknight 6:00 and nightly 11:00 p.m. newscasts, and laid off several Columbia-based employees. This was one of the largest-market examples of "centralcasting" (the practice of housing master control and/or other operations for multiple stations out of one facility) in the United States. After the company's financial picture improved and allowed it to afford more digital conversion costs, in the fall of 2005, Bahakel Communications moved production of WOLO's newscasts back to Columbia, from a new purpose-built streetside news studio located across from the State House in the historic Union National Bank Building. On August 1, 2011, WOLO restored a weekday morning newscast to its schedule after nine years with the debut of an hour-long program at 6:00 a.m. titled Good Morning Columbia, and the return of a noon newscast. On August 19, 2013, Good Morning Columbia expanded to two hours, with the addition of an hour to the broadcast from 5:00 to 6:00 a.m. In 2015, the station garnered attention when it first hired popular former WIS anchor Ben Hoover to its evening newscasts in August after his departure from the NBC affiliate back in 2014. In October, former WIS chief meteorologist John Farley was hired to replace Reg Taylor, who retired from television at the end of September. The new anchor team was widely promoted in social media as well as the local newspaper and the South Carolina State Fair. The station launched a new look, music, and a finalized studio for the debut in mid-October, with scenes of the capital city and the State