isn't available as a local option for Sinclair's streaming service Stirr, defaulting to WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., though neighboring WJAC-TV and WTOV-TV are available as alternate options. Since August 2016, the WPXI newscasts have been repeated at midnight on sister WPNT. On January 18, 2021, WPGH-TV began airing the Sinclair-produced The National Desk, a national morning news program similar in format to Nexstar Media Group's NewsNation on WGN America in that it sources its news from local stations within Sinclair. None of Sinclair's must-run editorials will air during The National Desk. On March 14, 2022, Channel 11 News on Fox 53 at 6:30 debuted, replacing a second hour of You Bet Your Life with Jay Leno. Notable current on-air staff Lisa Sylvester – anchor Notable former on-air staff Kurt Angle – sportscaster (1997–1998), 1996 Olympic gold medalist and Mt. Lebanon native who served as a sportscaster after winning two gold medals in freestyle wrestling, before moving on to a successful career in professional wrestling with the WWE and Impact Wrestling. Kevin Benson (AMS Seal of Approval) – meteorologist Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion Along with all Sinclair-owned stations, WPGH-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 53, on February 17, 2009, the original date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (the deadline was later extended to June 12). The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 43. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 53, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition. It was one of three stations in Pittsburgh to discontinue normal programming on their analog signals on the original transition date, alongside sister station WPNT and then-WQED-owned WQEX (now WINP-TV). As part of the SAFER Act, WPGH-TV and WPNT kept their analog signals on the air until March 19 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters. Due to the early sign-off, this made WPGH-TV one of the only stations broadcasting among channels 52–69 participating in the SAFER Act as that part of the spectrum would be removed from broadcasting use immediately after June