WKPT retained their rights to carry it after disaffiliating from ABC. It moved to WJHL-DT2 in April 2017, after WKPT voided all syndication contracts to carry Cozi TV, and to honor existing commitments to the former syndicated E/I programming WJHL-DT2 carried instead to fulfill their requirements. Because of the 6:30 p.m. newscast, WJHL-DT2 has aired ABC World News Tonight at 7 p.m. unlike most ABC stations in the Eastern Time Zone. In addition to the ABC network schedule, syndicated programming on WJHL-DT2 includes Access Hollywood, Judge Mathis and The People's Court, along with second runs of Dr. Phil and Family Feud. News operation WJHL's newscasts were simulcast on WKPT for four years. That station shut down its news department in February 2002. The simulcasts ceased in September 2006 (WKPT later restarted its own news operation, which itself shut down January 29, 2016). In late 2006, WJHL-TV launched a 24-hour cable weather channel. It was seen on most cable outlets in the area via digital cable and on digital channel 11.3; in 2015, the channel was replaced by Ion Television as a result of an affiliation deal between Media General and Ion. On August 11, 2008, Channel 11 debuted a new daytime show, Daytime Tri-Cities. The show is hosted by Morgan King (a former weatherman at WKPT and WCYB) and Amy Lynn (who was an anchor at WCYB). In the November 2008 ratings period, WJHL's 11 p.m. news took over the ratings lead from WCYB for the first time in thirty years. On April 21, 2010, WJHL management announced that the station would convert Channel 11 newscasts to high definition. On October 4, 2010, WJHL became the second station in the Tri-Cities market to convert its newscast in high definition. When WJHL-DT2 switched from MeTV to ABC on February 1, 2016, WJHL's morning, 11 p.m., and weekend newscasts began simulcasting on the subchannel. In addition, WJHL-DT2 airs newscasts at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., with ABC World News Tonight broadcast in between the two local newscasts at 7 p.m. The newscasts are branded ABC Tri-Cities News and are exclusive to WJHL-DT2. In addition to its Johnson City studios and newsroom, WJHL operates news bureaus in the Progress Building in downtown Kingsport, on State Street in Bristol, Tennessee, and on Depot Street in Greeneville, Tennessee. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion WJHL-TV shut down its analog signal,