7, 2011, when a two-hour extension of sister station WWJ-TV's weekday morning newscast First Forecast Mornings premiered in the 7–9 a.m. timeslot. The live program showcases weather, traffic and news headlines. The extension competed against the national morning newscasts aired by WWJ-TV, WXYZ and WDIV, and WJBK's highly rated morning newscast. WKBD-TV, along with WWJ-TV, began broadcasting all locally produced programming in high definition on February 2, 2012, making them the final CBS-owned properties with an in-house news operation to upgrade to HD. First Forecast Mornings was canceled on December 28, 2012 due to low viewership. The stations continued to air syndicated programming in place of traditional evening and late-night newscasts for several years after. In September 2013, WKBD began airing an extension of WWJ-TV's weather forecast segment First Forecast each weeknight at 10:58 p.m. (two minutes before the segment's late evening broadcast on WWJ-TV). On January 22, 2020, the station launched a new 10 p.m. newscast, which is produced in conjunction with the CBSN Local streaming operations, and was introduced as part of an expansion of news programming on CBS's CW-affiliated and independent stations. The newscasts are produced from Dallas–Fort Worth sister station KTVT, and feature contributions from multimedia journalists based in Detroit. In July 2022, the newscast was relaunched as Detroit Now News; it remains hubbed from KTVT, but now uses a mix of local stories (reported by staff hired for the new CBS News Detroit operation at WWJ) interspersed with national segments shared with other local versions of the program. Notable former on-air staff Syma Chowdhry – First Forecast Mornings news anchor Ray Lane – sports anchor Byron MacGregor – anchor Amyre Makupson – anchor Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: On July 11, 2018, WKBD-TV added two new subchannels from Sinclair Broadcast Group: Comet and Charge!, followed on December 22 of that year, by TBD. Analog-to-digital conversion WKBD-TV was granted a license for a digital transmitter facility in January 2001. The station shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 50, 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 14. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 50. On July 24, 2012,