{"id":400597,"date":"2026-04-27T22:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400597\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:41:07","slug":"wrtv-to-relaunch-weekend-morning-newscasts-in-july-after-8-year-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/400597\/","title":{"rendered":"WRTV to relaunch weekend morning newscasts in July after 8 year absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 WRTV will relaunch its weekend morning newscasts this summer, restoring local news coverage on Saturday and Sunday mornings for the first time in eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Owner, President and CEO DuJuan McCoy of Circle City Broadcasting, which owns WRTV, announced the expansion Monday.<\/p>\n<p>WRTV will air live, local newscasts from 7 to 8 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, leading into \u201cGood Morning America Weekend.\u201d The first Sunday newscast is scheduled for July 5, followed by the first Saturday broadcast on July 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis relaunch of weekend morning news on WRTV comes eight years to the weekend that the previous owner canceled all weekend morning news,\u201d McCoy said. \u201cTo be a viable news station, you must be in the local news business seven days a week and in all traditional news viewing time periods to serve our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The addition will increase WRTV\u2019s live local news, political and sports programming by 10 hours each week under Circle City Broadcasting ownership.<\/p>\n<p>The move reflects a continued commitment to expanding local journalism and serving central Indiana viewers with more coverage throughout the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 WRTV will relaunch its weekend morning newscasts this summer, restoring local news coverage on Saturday and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-400597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}