Early Show and CBS This Morning Saturday versions—aired on the News 9 Now subchannel, following a simulcast of the local morning newscast's then three-hour-long Saturday edition, from January 2011 until it began to be cleared on the main channel with the 2021 format change.) Channel 9 may preempt some CBS programs to provide long-form breaking news or severe weather coverage when necessary, or air prime time specials produced by the station's news department. The preempted programs may either be diverted on a live-to-air basis to KSBI (which also holds the right to air any preempted syndicated programs if KWTV airs extended news coverage in their time periods) or—less commonly since Griffin acquired KSBI—rebroadcast over KWTV in place of regularly scheduled overnight programs, although station personnel also gives viewers the option of watching them on CBS' website and mobile app, Paramount+, or its cable/satellite video-on-demand service the day after their initial airing. (News 9 Now previously handled substitute CBS programming responsibilities from its conversion into an over-the-air-originated service in April 2011 until December 2014, when Griffin transferred those duties to KSBI upon assuming operational responsibilities for that station.) Partly as a result of the January 2021 launch of its 9:00 a.m. newscast, KWTV's weekday schedule relies very heavily on local newscasts and CBS network programs; with only two hours (one hour in daytime and 90 minutes in the evening and late night) not reserved to local and network shows, it has the least weekday programming time allocated to syndicated content among Oklahoma City's major commercial television stations. Syndicated programs broadcast by KWTV-DT include Dr. Phil, Castle, Wipeout, Extra and Entertainment Tonight. Channel 9 formerly served as the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA)'s "Love Network" station for the Oklahoma City market, carrying the charity's annual telethon on Labor Day and the preceding Sunday night each September from September 1973 until September 2010. For most of its run on the station, KWTV aired the telethon on a three-hour tape delay following its 10:00 p.m. newscast on the Sunday preceding Labor Day because of CBS entertainment and sports programming commitments. For this reason, KWTV elected not to continue airing the telethon for the September 2011 broadcast, when it was reduced from its original 21½-hour format to a six-hour prime time telecast on the night before Labor Day. (CW affiliate KOCB [channel 34] aired the telethon for its final two years as a syndicated telecast; the