p.m. news block replaced by Dr. Phil, which had aired in the 5 p.m. slot to compete against newscasts on WFTV, WESH and WOFL, and a new hour-long newscast at 6:00 debuted. It was the market's first and only full hour of news at 6 p.m. and pushed the CBS Evening News to 7 p.m. However, on January 3, 2011, the Evening News returned to the 6:30 half-hour, and a new half-hour 7 p.m. newscast took its place. In September 2011, WKMG relaunched a half-hour 5 p.m. newscast, with syndicated entertainment newsmagazine The Insider following it at 5:30 p.m., replacing Dr. Phil which ended up moving to WOFL. For the February 2012 sweeps period, WKMG took first place in the 25-to-54 demographic at 11 p.m., beating WESH by 5,000 viewers and WFTV by 5,700 viewers. On June 2, 2012, WKMG became the last major television station in the Orlando market, as well as the last Post-Newsweek owned station, to upgrade its newscasts to full high definition. On August 28, 2015, WKMG dropped the "Local" branding from their name and began calling themselves News 6. On September 7, 2015, WKMG relaunched their 4 p.m. newscast with Julie Broughton as anchor. On April 6, 2020, WKMG began its expanded weekday morning newscast with an extra half-hour starting at 4:30 a.m., thus becoming the last of the four major television stations in the market to start in that same time slot. Notable former on-air staff Lisa Colagrossi (later worked at WABC-TV in New York City; deceased) Mark McEwen (formerly of CBS News, later with Black News Channel) Trace Gallagher (has been at Fox News Channel since its inception in 1996) Jerry Hodak (retired from WXYZ-TV in Detroit) Shepard Smith (worked at Fox News Channel from 1996 to 2019, was most recently at CNBC) Tom Terry (now chief meteorologist at WFTV) Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WKMG's 6.2 subchannel was originally affiliated with LATV, and (along with three other Post-Newsweek stations) was among the network's launch affiliates on April 23, 2007. In addition to LATV, during the Casey Anthony trial, the subchannel was used to carry CBS Daytime and syndicated programming from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., to accommodate trial coverage on WKMG's primary channel at the time; it had earlier planned to air trial coverage in full on 6.2 to minimize disruption to WKMG's main schedule. The LATV affiliation