WOIO presently broadcasts 40½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday, 2½ hours on Saturdays and three hours on Sundays). It also produces an additional 9½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week for WUAB (with 90 minutes each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). Combined across both stations, WOIO produces a total of 50 hours of newscasts each week. WOIO originally had no intention to start a news department; however, CBS informed WOIO that it "preferred" that the station air newscasts. With just months before WJW was due to switch to Fox, there was little time to form a full-scale news division from scratch. Instead, WOIO had LMA partner WUAB (which had been producing a 10:00 p.m. newscast since 1988) produce its newscasts. WOIO began airing newsbriefs during "CBS This Morning" with Julie Hanahan, WOIO's first news employee, and Betty Haliburton. Early additions to the news staff were Emmett Miller, Denise Dufala (former longtime anchor at WJW); weeknight meteorologist Dave Sweeney; weeknight sports anchor Jeff Phelps; weekend co-anchors Gretchen Carlson and Dave Barker; weekend sports anchor Ronnie Duncan; and weekend meteorologist Julie Hanahan. WOIO started airing newscasts at 6:00, 6:30, and 11:00 p.m. on February 5, 1995. The now-shared news operation of WOIO and WUAB became collectively known as "Cleveland Television News". Romona Robinson and Jack Marschall remained as anchors for WUAB, maintaining their long history of ratings success at 10:00 p.m.; however, WUAB's ratings success with its prime time newscast did not yet translate to WOIO's newly created 11:00 p.m. newscast. One of the first big stories aired on WOIO featured the "glasses cam", which Dave Barker used to show how he could just walk into a school without being stopped. In 1996, WOIO and WUAB dropped the "Cleveland Television News" moniker; WOIO began identifying as "CBS 19" and titled its newscasts "CBS 19 News". WJW had been one of the strongest CBS affiliates in the country, and WOIO hoped that viewers would associate the network with a high-quality local newscast.