News Operation
WIBW-TV broadcasts a total of 26½ hours of local news per week (with 4½ hours on weekdays, and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in addition, WIBW also carries a two-hour extension of its weekday morning newscast from 7-9 a.m. and a nightly half-hour 9 p.m. newscast that are exclusive to its MyNetworkTV/This TV affiliated digital subchannel as well as simulcasts of WIBW's weekday morning 5-7 a.m. and nightly 10 p.m. newscasts.
WIBW, along with co-owned Wichita ABC affiliate KAKE-TV and Cox Communications, were one of two partners in "Kansas Now 22", a cable channel that aired throughout Kansas. WIBW and KAKE would originate five minute segments of taped news every fifteen minutes then an additional three minute taped weather segment. The two stations had alternating time slots for both news and weather segments. Live news or weather bulletins from KAKE in Wichita would interrupt normal taped operations on the channel. This service ended on January 2, 2009. The channel was relaunched on January 28, 2009 as "Kansas 22" with content originating from LIN_Media-owned NBC affiliate stations KSNW and KSNT.
On February 23, 2012, beginning with its 6 p.m. newscast, WIBW-TV became the first television station in Northeast Kansas to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition.
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