Under Linn, the station expanded its news programming to 4 hours per day, including an unprecedented one-hour program at 10p.m. each weeknight as well as a 15-minute newscast at midnight four nights a week; the station also launched News 8 Etc., a 90-minute morning news-talk show that replaced the children's program Mr. Peppermint in January 1970 and was originally hosted by Suzie Humphreys and Don Harris, who conducted the broadcast without the assistance of cue cards or a TelePrompTer; following anchor Gene Thomas' death when a jet-powered dragster he was riding in for a story being produced for the show crashed at speeds of 286 miles per hour (460km/h) at Dallas International Motor Speedway in October 1971, the program underwent several changes to its anchor team and was later retooled in May 1974 as The AM Show (later shortened to simply AM), before ending in January 1978.[49]. - Weekend morning meteorologist - NBC 5 Chicago WMAQ, - Morning meteorologist - 41 Action News KSHB / KMCI Kansas City, MO, - Morning meteorologist WIAT "Wake Up Alabama" - Birmingham, AL, - Weather Forecaster - WCIA 3 Champaign, Illinois, - Weather Anchor/Reporter - WSIL 3 Harrisburg, Illinois. For more informationdownload our brochure. The station also produces the talk, entertainment and lifestyle program Good Morning Texas, which airs weekdays at 9a.m. and is produced independently of WFAA's news department; the hour-long program, which debuted on September 12, 1994 under original hosts Scott Sams and Deborah Duncan (as of June 2016[update], it is currently co-hosted by Alanna Sarabia and former KXAS-TV anchor Jane McGarry), served as the basis for other similarly formatted local late-morning talk shows that debuted on its sister stations under Belo ownership in subsequent years. collect data relating to children. 3) What do you like about working at WFAA? [24][25] Once the corporate separation was finalized on June 29, 2015, WFAA became part of Tegna, which was structured as the legal successor of the old Gannett and assumed ownership of the original company's non-publishing assets (including the broadcasting unit and most of its digital media properties); the Gannett Company, meanwhile, was re-established as a new company absolved of all existing debt that retained its predecessor's newspapers (including the company's flagship publication, USA Today) and select digital assets not acquired by Tegna.[26][27][28]. After spending eighteen years in the 6:30p.m. slot, WFAA dropped Wheel, as well as Jeopardy!, from its schedule in the fall of 2005. Regulation (GDPR), which applies across the European Union and UK GDPR and the Coinciding with the commencement of local programming production at the Plaza Towers studios in Victory Park, WFAA began broadcasting its newscasts and other local programs in high definition on February 2, 2007, becoming the first television station in the DallasFort Worth market to begin broadcasting their newscasts in the format on a regular basis.