would not follow with a transition to HD broadcasts until June 13 because it needed to upgrade the master control at its separate studios in order to transmit the news in high definition. On May 2, 2012, the station began providing a live video simulcast of WJIM (1240)'s talk radio program Michigan's Big Show (hosted by Michael Patrick Shiels) on weekday mornings from 6 until 8. At some point in time, WSYM added segments at 6:30 and 7:30 (branded as The Morning Blend) during Michigan's Big Show. The advertorial segments were produced through the station's advertising sales department and were recorded in advance, and were the same type of advertiser product presentations seen on other The Morning Blend shows produced by most of Journal's stations. That effort and the simulcast of Michigan's Big Show was discontinued with the launch of Fox 47 Morning News at 7. With WSYM now being a sister station of WXYZ, a half-hour simulcast of that outlet's weekday morning newscast has been added to WSYM. Airing at 6:30, it is branded as 7 Action News This Morning on Fox 47 and features Detroit-based coverage although statewide news headlines are included. WSYM does provide local weather segments during the program. On October 8, 2020, Scripps announced that WSYM will reinstate its news department in early 2021, thus ending its news share agreement with WILX. The operation launched at the start of January 2021, with contributions additionally coming from adjacent-market sister stations WXMI (where weather segments also originate) and WXYZ-TV as the station establishes a more permanent studio presence in Lansing. Notable former on-air staff Ahmed Fareed – sports anchor (2003–2004, now studio host/reporter at NBC Sports Bay Area) Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Originally, WSYM-DT2 featured the TheCoolTV. MeTV was added on October 1, 2011 on 47.2 and is available on Comcast digital channel 296. A lawsuit filed by Journal Communications for "non-payment of broadcast operations" against TheCoolTV's parent company and the oncoming removal of TheCoolTV from Journal's stations in Wisconsin, resulted in MeTV replacing TheCoolTV on 47.2, and proving far more successful. On October 6, 2014, WSYM-TV added Bounce TV to a newly created third subchannel. Because of WHTV's termination, WSYM added MyNetworkTV programming to its fourth subchannel (along with much of WHTV's former schedule) on October 9, 2017 with the branding "My 47.4". In May 2019, an additional fifth subchannel was