< ! -- Deleted image removed : KPTM presently broadcasts six hours of locally produced newscasts each week ( with an hour each on Sunday through Fridays ) . After Fox requested its affiliates to air local newscasts in the early 1990s , KPTM established a news department and began airing a half-hour prime time broadcast at 9 p.m. on June 14 , 1990 . Within a year , '' The Nine O'Clock Nightly News '' was expanded to one hour . From the start , the station put a greater emphasis on national coverage over local content ; it also presented more packaged news reports . With sister station KXVO 's original identity and tagline of " All Entertainment , All the Time " in 1995 , local news programming did not seem like a natural fit to its schedule . In the late 1990s and early 2000s , KXVO did air 60-second updates seen during the 6 p.m. hour that promoted stories for the upcoming night 's broadcast on KPTM . In 2001 , KXVO made plans to air a 5:30 p.m. newscast on weeknights utilizing on-air talent and production assistance from KPTM . After the terrorist attacks of September 11 , 2001 and the resulting economic downturn , these plans were put on hold and eventually abandoned . In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks , KXVO provided continuous coverage from CNN Headline News . On January 28 , 2006 , KPTM began producing '' The KXVO 15 10 O'Clock News '' , a weeknight 10 p.m. newscast for KXVO . In April of the same year , former MTV personality and reality show host Brian McFayden was hired to anchor the program , though he left the show to explore other options in his career amid rumors that he was becoming more and more difficult to work with . In any case , McFayden 's hiring was unable to save the newscast 's ratings , which had been low from the start . In late-August 2006 , comedian and Second City Training Center alumnus Matt Geiler was named the new anchor of the broadcast . By this time , the show had become some sort of sketch comedy program with news content being handled by KPTM staff . Throughout its run , '' The KXVO 15 10 O'Clock News '' never registered a single ratings point and was cancelled in 2007 . On September 17 , 2007 , KPTM launched an hour-long weekday afternoon newscast at 4 p.m. , which made the station one of the few Fox affiliates to offer a newscast in that timeslot ; with the debut of the newscast came the introduction of a new news set . The program competed with WOWT 's own half-hour 4 p.m. newscast ; within a year , KPTM 's 4 p.m. newscast was scaled back to a half-hour , and was cancelled completely by the spring of 2009
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