in July. Local programming Newscasts The first news of any kind on WBFS-TV came in the form of prime time news breaks supplied by WTVJ in 1993. Soon after the Viacom-CBS merger in 2001, and in the wake of the September 11 attacks, WBFS began to air a nightly 10:00 p.m. newscast from WFOR-TV. This was the third prime time news broadcast in the market after WSVN's long-established 10:00 p.m. newscast and a WTVJ-produced newscast in that slot on WB affiliate WBZL. In 2003, the newscast was expanded from 30 minutes to a full hour, and the next year, WBFS added a two-hour-long extension of WFOR's weekday morning newscast, airing from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m., which replaced paid programming in that time slot and competed against WSVN's morning newscast Today in Florida. The morning newscast failed to gather ratings traction and aired for the last time on October 17, 2008, when WBFS-TV's weekend newscasts were also dropped and several on-air talent and six behind-the-scenes employees were dismissed as part of budget cuts. The newscast ended in September 2011. A prime time newscast, now airing at 9:00 p.m., was re-introduced in July 2022 using the new CBS News Now format. Sports programming In 2020, Inter Miami CF announced that, alongside WFOR-TV, WBFS would carry regionally televised matches. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion WBFS-TV ended programming on its analog signal, on UHF channel 33, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 32. Notes References External links BFS-TV CBS News and Stations Independent television stations in the United States Movies! affiliates Charge! (TV network) affiliates Comet (TV network) affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1984 1984 establishments in Florida National Hockey League over-the-air television broadcasters