bring news production in-house after 19 years. On September 17, 2015, WFXR announced that the news department would launch on October 1, with the expansion of its weekday morning news program—retitled Good Day Virginia—from two hours to four (with the premiere of an additional two-hour broadcast from 5:00 to 7:00 a.m.) and the weekend editions of its 10:00 p.m. newscast—retitled WFXR News First at 10—to one hour. Subsequently, in November, the station debuted a half-hour local sports highlight program on Friday nights following the 10:00 p.m. newscast. The formation of the news department and concurrent move to the Valleypointe facility resulted in the hiring of 33 news and production employees to WFXR's staff, in addition to the Nexstar employees that had already been contributing to the station's newscasts (including 10:00 p.m. co-anchor Becky Freemal and morning anchor Tara Wheeler). Technical information Subchannels WFXR and WWCW broadcast two shared channels (Fox on 27.1 and 21.2 and The CW on 21.2 and 27.1) and two unique diginets each. Analog-to-digital conversion WFXR discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 27, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 17, using virtual channel 27. Notes References External links Bounce TV affiliates Ion Mystery affiliates FXR Television channels and stations established in 1986 1986 establishments in Virginia Nexstar Media Group