On September 12, 2011, CHCH increased its local news programming by launching a 90-minute extension of "Morning Live", titled "Morning Live First Edition", airing weekdays from 4:00 to 5:30 a.m.; this made CHCH the first Canadian television station (and the first in the Buffalo-Niagara region; WGRZ would follow with a 4:30 a.m. newscast in 2012) to air a morning newscast that starts before 5:30 a.m.