''CBS News Now'' is the ''de facto'' umbrella title for a set of hybrid local/national
newscast
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s produced by
CBS News and Stations
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airing on most of the group's
CW affiliates or
independent station
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s, with production led by the CBS Local News Innovation Lab at the studios of
KTVT
KTVT (channel 11) is a television station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, United States, broadcasting CBS programming to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside independent outl ...
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KTXA
KTXA (channel 21) is an independent television station in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside Fort Worth–based CBS station KTVT (channel 11). Bo ...
in
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According ...
. In markets where the company has a full news operation, the newscast is named after the applicable
CBS News Local streaming service, while in other markets (including those where CBS owns a station that carries the newscast, but the
CBS
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network affiliate is owned by a third party) the title follows the format ''
ocationNow News''.
The program, which generally airs at either 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. local time, includes short local news and weather briefs, presented by a local anchor (or in some cases a surrogate anchor hosting remotely), but consists mainly of nationally-oriented news coverage produced in Fort Worth. The newscast's initial national anchors are Tom Hanson on weeknights and Trason Bragg on weekends.
The format debuted on July 18, 2022, on the following stations:
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WLNY-TV
WLNY-TV (channel 55) is an independent television station licensed to Riverhead, New York, United States, serving the New York City television market. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside CBS flagship WCBS-TV (channel 2). ...
Riverhead/
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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(as ''CBS News New York Now at 9:00 on WLNY-TV 10/55'')
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WPSG
WPSG (channel 57) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with The CW. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside CBS owned-and-operated station KYW-TV (channel 3). Both stations share stu ...
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
(as ''CBS News Philadelphia Now at 10:00 on The CW Philly'')
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KTXA
KTXA (channel 21) is an independent television station in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside Fort Worth–based CBS station KTVT (channel 11). Bo ...
Fort Worth
Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Texas and the 13th-largest city in the United States. It is the county seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into four other counties: Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise. According ...
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Dallas
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(as ''CBS News Texas Now at 9:00 on TXA 21'')
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WUPA
WUPA (channel 69) is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with The CW. The station is owned by the CBS News and Stations group and maintains studios on Northeast Expressway (I-85) in unincorporated DeKalb County ( ...
Atlanta
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(as ''Atlanta Now News at 10:00 on Atlanta's CW 69'')
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KBCW San Francisco
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(as ''CBS News Bay Area Now at 10:00 on KBCW'')
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WSBK Boston
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(as ''CBS News Boston Now at 10:00 on TV38'')
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KSTW
KSTW (channel 11) is a television station licensed to Tacoma, Washington, United States, serving the Seattle area as an affiliate of The CW. Owned by the CBS News and Stations group, the station maintains studios on East Madison Street in Seat ...
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...
(as ''Seattle Now News at 10:00 on CW 11'')
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WTOG
WTOG (channel 44) is a television station licensed to St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, serving as the CW affiliate for the Tampa Bay area. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group, and maintains studios on Northeast 105th Terrac ...
St. Petersburg
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Tampa
Tampa () is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The city's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and the seat of Hillsborough County ...
(as ''Tampa Bay Now News at 10:00 on CW 44'')
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WKBD
WKBD-TV (channel 50) is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with The CW. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside CBS owned-and-operated station WWJ-TV (channel 62). Both stations share studios o ...
Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at th ...
(as ''Detroit Now News at 10:00 on CW 50'')
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WBFS Miami
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...
(as ''CBS News Miami Now at 9:00 on TV33'')
See also
* ''
News Central
''News Central'' is an American series of primetime newscast television programs on television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The programs mixed locally produced news with nationally produced news and an opinion segment from S ...
'', similar newscasts produced by
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (SBG) is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Cockeysville, Maryland, t ...
from 2002 to 2006
Footnotes
References
2020s American television news shows
English-language television shows
Local news programming in the United States
CBS News and Stations
2022 American television series debuts
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