widescreen standard definition. Although Time Warner Cable/Charter-owned regional cable channels have produced news and sports content for broadcast stations in the past (such as a now-expired agreement between Kansas City's KCTV and Metro Sports for the latter to compile and produce the station's sports coverage), the WXLV/Charter agreement is the second instance in which a cable news channel has produced news broadcasts for a television station; in Washington, D.C., News Channel 8 produced a nightly 10 p.m. newscast for then UPN affiliate WDCA in 1995. Spectrum News on ABC 45 was dropped without explanation on September 6, 2019. The 6:30 a.m. newscast was replaced with a repeat of America This Morning. The 6 p.m. newscast was replaced with the third episode of Family Feud. The 11 p.m. newscast was replaced with the news program Daily Mail TV. In December 2020, it was announced that WXLV would bring back their own local news starting January 18, 2021. As of 2021, WXLV presently broadcasts 10 hours of locally produced newscasts each week. The newscasts are anchored out of KABB in San Antonio, Texas. Unlike most ABC stations, it does not carry a weekend newscast. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion On February 2, 2009, Sinclair told cable and satellite television providers via e-mail that regardless of the exact mandatory switchover date to digital-only broadcasting for full-power stations (which Congress rescheduled for June 12 days later), the station would shut down its analog signal on the original transition date of February 17, making WXLV and WMYV the first stations in the market to convert to digital-only broadcast transmissions. WXLV-TV shut down its analog signal at 11:59 p.m. on that date. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 29, using PSIP to display WXLV-TV's virtual channel as 45 on digital television receivers. As part of the SAFER Act, WXLV-TV kept its analog signal on the air until March 13 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters. References External links Sinclair Broadcast Group ABC network affiliates Charge! (TV network) affiliates TBD (TV network) affiliates Stadium (sports network) affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1979 XLV-TV 1979 establishments in North Carolina