While affiliated with CBS, it operated a news department which ended sometime in the early-1990s.

However, unlike most other Fox affiliates, it does not operate a local news department of its own.

KALB operates a relatively large news department compared with other big three affiliates in markets of its size.

Unlike most Fox affiliates, however, it does not currently operate a local news department of its own but has done so in two previous attempts in the past.

KBOI operates a news department with a focus on high impact community advocacy journalism.

WHLT did operate a full news department previously in its history.

WILM does not operate a news department of its own, unlike most big three stations.

For many years, WPXT operated a news department and produced its own local newscasts.

Throughout its entire history, as a network affiliate and as an independent station, KPTV has always operated a local news department.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, WNNE operated a fairly large news department for a station of its size.