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==News operation== On September 22, 2003, through a news share agreement, WECT began producing a nightly half-hour prime time newscast on WSFX (''Fox 26 News at 10'', now ''Fox Wilmington News at 10''). This was eventually joined by a 60-minute extension of WECT's weekday morning show on September 13, 2006, called ''Carolina in the Morning on Fox 26'' (now ''Carolina in the Morning on Fox Wilmington''), seen from 7 to 8 on WSFX offering an alternative to the national morning shows seen on the market's big three network-affiliated stations. On August 31, 2008, WECT became Wilmington's first television outlet to upgrade local news production to high definition level and the broadcasts on WSFX were included in the change. At some point in time, WECT added a third newscast to WSFX, under the title ''Fox 26 News at 6:30'' (later became ''Fox Wilmington News at 6:30''). It only aired on weeknights and attempted to compete against the national evening newscasts seen on the big three networks. It would be canceled by the end of 2013 in preparation to expand the weeknight edition of the 10 p.m. show to an hour (which occurred on January 15, 2014). After WWAY stopped producing weekend evening newscasts on August 1, 2009, WECT and WSFX became the only outlets in Wilmington to offer evening broadcasts seen seven nights a week. Although WWAY eventually reintroduced a local newscast airing Sunday nights at 11, WECT and WSFX remain the only channels in the market to air newscasts throughout the weekend. All newscasts on WSFX air from WECT's primary set but with modified [[duratrans]] indicating the Fox-branded shows.
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