NewsEdge at 11
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| NewsEdge at 11 | |
|---|---|
| Format | news program, live action |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Production | |
| Running time | 35 minutes Mon-Fri |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | WTVT/FOX |
| Original airing | 2005 |
NewsEdge at 11:00 is an 11:00-11:35 p.m. newscast on WTVT hosted by Mark Wilson (with Lloyd Sowers, Frank Robertson, or Doug Smith filling in if Wilson is off). It is described as a fast-paced, Fox News Channel-type news show, with shorter report segments, and a more tabloid-feel.
The newscast is split in to multiple parts, which mainly are: "Top Stories", "48 Hour Forecast", "FOX Up Front", "FloridaEdge", "NationalEdge", "FOX Focus", "WeatherEdge", "SportsEdge", and "The Lightning Round". The Lightning Round is a 5-minute debate/opinion segment which features the host, the meteorologist, and the sports anchor, along with a "special guest" debating somewhat controversial news topics. NewsEdge was, and still is somewhat, considered independent from WTVT's main news operation, and at one point, NewsEdge had different graphics and a different theme than the main news operation until the NewsEdge graphics and theme were integrated into the main news operation in February of 2006. Fox Television Stations Group, which owns WTVT, is using Tampa as the test market for this 11:00 p.m. newscast format. If successful, the plan is to have all Fox owned and operated stations producing news at 11:00 p.m.. Similar to this, sister stations KDFW in Dallas-Fort Worth, WDAF in Kansas City, WITI in Milwaukee, and KSAZ in Phoenix currently have a 10 p.m. newscast (the equivalent of an 11:00 newscast in the eastern time zone) as a Fox O&O in the Central and Mountain Time Zones.
WTTG Washington, DC currently shares the NewsEdge branding for its 11:00 newscast, as does WJBK Detroit. KTBC Austin uses the NewsEdge branding for all of its newscasts.
