It was the highest local newscast output among all broadcast television stations in Canada (surpassing Vancouver's CHAN-DT, which broadcasts 45 hours of local news each week), among all North American broadcast television stations (surpassing Fox affiliates and sister stations WXIN in Indianapolis (which runs 66 hours each week), and WJW in Cleveland (which runs 65½ hours each week), and also not counting 24-hour all-local-news stations such as Time Warner Cable News), and among the numerous stations in the Buffalo Niagara Region (significantly more than the 47½ hours provided by the WIVB/WNLO duopoly).