KTVT-TV in Fort Worth-Dallas presently broadcasts 33 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week. Channel 11 first established as news department when it was as an independent station in 1960, when it debuted a half-hour local newscast at noon and a 15-minute newscast at 10:00 p.m.–the latter airing as an intermission within its late prime time movie presentations, which began at 9:00 p.m., and resumed until its conclusion after the newscast–each weekday; the program featured anchors based in both Dallas and Fort Worth. In August 1960, premiered "Reveille", a half-hour weekday morning newscast that was anchored by Bill Camfield; the program ran until 1963. In 1981, KTVT-TV began producing 60-second live news updates under the title "Headline News", that aired during commercial breaks within the station's daytime and evening programming. In May 1984, KRLD-TV/KDAF began to produced a one-hour news program at 7:00 p.m. on KTVT-TV until KTVT-TV's initial news department was shut down in May 1986. Gaylord Broadcasting management eventually decided to make investments to expand KTVT-TV's news operations. On August 20, 1990, KTVT began producing a long-form; hour-long prime time newscast at 7:00 p.m., airing only on Monday through Friday nights, which was designed to appeal to viewers whose work schedule and evening commute prevented them from watching local early evening newscasts on KDFW-TV, KXAS-TV and WFAA-TV. Debuting under the newscast title "Newswatch 11", the newscasts were initially anchored by Mike Hambrick and Midge Hill (who joined the station after a five-year stint as anchor/report at WFAA-TV), alongside chief meteorologist Bob Goosmann and sports director Bobby Estill. It was the first attempt in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area at a local newscast in the 7:00 p.m. timeslot in 4 years. Five months later on January 7, 1991, the newscast was moved to 9:00 p.m. The timeslot shift made it the first such newscast to be offered by a commercial television station in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area in the 9:00 p.m. time slot. In 1992, Estill left his position as the KTVT-TV's sports director and was replaced by Curt Menefee. The weeknight editions of the 9:00 p.m. newscast was expanded to one hour on February 1, 1993, at which time the late newscast was retitled "The Nine O'Clock News". A few months after the program's title change, Hambrick departed from KTVT-TV and he was replaced by Ken Malloy (who took over as Midge Hill's co-anchor). The hour-long Saturday and Sunday editions of the newscast were added on March 12, 1994, with co-anchors Beth McKay and Jerry Jenkins, meteorologist Brad Barton and sports anchor Timm Matthews (who came to the station from KXAS-TV and would later replace Curt Menefee as sports director following his departure for WNYW-TV in New York City) initially helming the weekend broadcasts. Matthews also hosted the half-hour sports highlight program, "First Sports", which debuted the following day of March 13 as a lead-out for the abbreviated half-hour Sunday edition of the newscast. On September 24, 2007, KTVT became just the third television station in the Dallas-Fort Worth market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high-definition.