As a result, the station ran cartoons and off-network sitcoms in place of "One Life to Live" and "General Hospital". By the late 1980s, these were replaced with first run talk shows such as "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (at 4 p.m.), "The Montel Williams Show", and "The Jerry Springer Show". WDTN would begin its talk block at 2 p.m. during the week. In 2000, Time Warner Cable (Dayton's largest cable system) dropped the Cincinnati network affiliates to make room for new cable channels. The Cincinnati stations had been available on cable in the Dayton area ever since cable arrived there in the mid-1960s. As a result, ABC soap viewers could no longer see "One Life to Live" or "General Hospital", while over-the-air viewers could still pick them up on WCPO-TV (which had become Cincinnati's ABC affiliate in 1996). As a result, in the fall of 2000, "General Hospital" returned to WDTN's schedule, where it stayed until the station returned to NBC in 2004. In the 1970s and 1980s, WDTN used the "Eyewitness News" branding. For most of its history, its newscasts have been a runner-up to market leader WHIO-TV. On April 11, 2012, the station announced that it was in the process of reconstructing its studios in preparation for the production of high definition content. After June 8, 2012, newscasts were moved to the station's newsroom as the new news set was being built in the same location as the old one. The first high definition newscast was at 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 21, 2012. WDTN was the second station in Dayton to have made the upgrade to HD newscasts; the shows on WBDT were included in the upgrade. On August 18, 2007, the station began to produce a nightly prime time newscast for WBDT, known as "2 News at 10 on Dayton's CW". This show achieved higher ratings than WRGT-TV's nightly prime time news in Dayton's metered market households on the 26th day of its broadcast. That year, "2 News" won the "Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence" for the second straight year. In May 2011, the station changed the name of its weekday 5:00-7:00 a.m. newscast from "2 News Sunrise" to "2 News Today".