newscasts aside from Fox News Sunday) has motivated its affiliates and stations to increase local news programming; KTXL and Tribune's other Fox stations did not follow this request until September 2009, when most of the stations (except for KCPQ in Seattle, which would not add early evening newscasts for another year) expanded their newscasts into midday and early evening timeslots. On January 7, 2010, beginning with its 10:00 p.m. newscast, KTXL became the fourth station in the Sacramento market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. It was the first (and presently, the only) television station in the market to provide news video from the field in true high definition, as KTXL upgraded its ENG vehicles, satellite truck, studio and field cameras and other equipment in order to broadcast news footage from the field in high definition, in addition to segments broadcast from the main studio. This is in contrast to KCRA and KXTV, both of whom broadcast their field reports in widescreen standard definition (KOVR also shoots field reports in high definition but downconverts much of the footage to widescreen standard definition). On November 4, 2013, KTXL expanded its weekday evening news block to 90 minutes with the addition of a half-hour 5 p.m. newscast. Another expansion was made on September 18, 2017, with the addition of a half-hour 6:30 p.m. newscast. This newscast competes with a long-established newscast on KCRA and a KOVR-produced newscast on KMAX-TV. On December 4, 2019, KTXL debuted an hour-long 7 p.m. newscast on weekdays, becoming the first 7 p.m. newscast in the Sacramento media market. As a result, the station airs a continuous three-hour weekday evening news block from 5 to 8 p.m. In 2022, the station launched a half-hour 11 p.m. newscast for the first time in its history, competing with the long-established newscasts on KCRA and KXTV, as well as KOVR, but unlike its competitors, it only airs Monday through Saturday. A local public affairs program, Inside California Politics, instead airs Sunday nights at 11 p.m. Notable former on-air staff Mike Bond – reporter (1989–2005; now a public information officer with the California Lottery) Thomas Drayton – anchor (2002–2008; now at WTXF in Philadelphia) Michelle Franzen – reporter/fill-in anchor (1995–1998; now with ABC News Radio in New York) Adam Housley – reporter (1999–2001; now a Los Angeles bureau reporter at Fox News) Gary Radnich – sports anchor (now retired