First reported by TVSpy, WLNY-TV 10/55 will launch a 9pm weekend newscast on Saturday, July 12. The newscast will replace Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, which airs reruns on WLNY at 9pm on the weekends. The newscast will be anchored by Cindy Hsu, who anchors the weekend 11pm newscasts on sister station WCBS-TV. Hsu will be joined by her WCBS colleagues Meteorologist Elise Finch with weather and Steve Overmeyer with sports.
David Friend, SVP of News for CBS Television Stations and News Director for WCBS-TV, said in a statement to TVSpy that "WLNY’s 9 p.m. newscast addresses viewers’ needs to have their local news at an earlier time in the evening and the newly expanded broadcast will now allow audiences to do that on the weekend as well."
CBS completed its purchase of WLNY in early 2012, and the addition of the weekend newscasts comes about two years after CBS Television launched the weekday "News at 9" on WLNY on July 2, 2012.
David Friend, SVP of News for CBS Television Stations and News Director for WCBS-TV, said in a statement to TVSpy that "WLNY’s 9 p.m. newscast addresses viewers’ needs to have their local news at an earlier time in the evening and the newly expanded broadcast will now allow audiences to do that on the weekend as well."
CBS completed its purchase of WLNY in early 2012, and the addition of the weekend newscasts comes about two years after CBS Television launched the weekday "News at 9" on WLNY on July 2, 2012.