joined by WXIN in 2009 and WRTV in 2010. WTTV became the last station in the market, again, to air a pre-5 a.m. timeslot when their news operation debuted in 2015). When it became an affiliate of The CW on January 1, 2015, WISH-TV expanded its news programming by 20 hours (increasing its weekly total from 34 to 54 hours a week). Most existing newscasts were retained, though the 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. newscasts it produced for WNDY moved to channel 8 (the former of which is part of an expansion of Daybreak that extended the weekday edition of the program by two hours and the weekend editions by one), while the noon newscast expanded to one hour and a 6:30 p.m. newscast on weeknights was added. The weekend 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. newscasts were also shortened to a half-hour, with the Sports Locker being moved to bookending the latter and the 11:00 p.m. news on Sunday nights, and a new sports program (Indy Sports Tonight) taking up 15 minutes of the 11:00 p.m. news. Notable former on-air staff Mike Barz – anchor/reporter Chet Coppock – sportscaster (1974–1981; later at WMVP-AM in Chicago; deceased) Eboni Deon – weekend meteorologist, (now at WFTV) Nicole Manske – sports anchor/reporter (2004–2006; now at ESPN) Mark Patrick – sports director (1990–1999) Jane Pauley – weekend anchor (1972–1975; later co-anchor of Today, now host of CBS News Sunday Morning) Rolland Smith – anchor (1967–1969) Sage Steele – sports reporter (1997–1998; now at ESPN) John Stehr – anchor (later at WTHR; retired June 20, 2018) Anne Marie Tiernon – anchor/reporter (1991–2000; now at WTHR) Local Weather Station WISH-TV originally launched digital subchannel 8.2 in 2005 as an over-the-air feed of its 24-hour weather service, LWS (or "Local Weather Station"); formatted similarly to the now-defunct SkyTrak Weather Network service previously operated by WTHR and its low-power sister station WALV-CD (channel 46), the service also began to be simulcast on low-power sister station WIIH-CA on January 1, 2009, after that station lost its Univision affiliation; WIIH-CA dropped the service when it was converted into a fill-in translator of WISH-TV in January 2011. Until February 2016, Channel 8 carried a half-hour simulcast of the LWS service on its primary channel on Friday nights/early Saturday mornings. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Translator References External links Official website The CW affiliates GetTV affiliates Twist (TV network)