KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh presently broadcasts 43 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7 hours each weekday, 4½ hours on Saturdays and 3½ hours on Sundays). From the beginning, under the then-call letters WDTV, Bill Burns was hired as anchor, and he would go on for the next 35½ years. When Westinghouse brought Channel 2 in late 1954, and then changed its call letters to KDKA-TV in 1955, the news department was expanded. In 1962, Marie Torre joined KDKA-TV as one of the first female anchors in Pittsburgh television history. In the early 1960s, Paul Long joined the station as anchor, and he would go on to co-anchor the station's weekday morning newscast titled Daybreak (before he would leave the station for rival WTAE-TV in 1969). On November 22, 1963, Bill Burns provided almost three hours of local live coverage of the shooting & assassination death of John F. Kennedy. In 1965, KDKA-TV changed its newscast titles and rebranded to the Eyewitness News brand. In 1967, Dick Stockton joined Channel 2 as sports director/anchor, when he was only in his late twenties, until he left in 1971. In 1968, Bob Kudzma joined Channel 2 as lead weathercaster, and he would become one of the greatest television weathercasters in Pittsburgh history. In 1973, Lee Arthur was hired by KDKA-TV as sports anchor, becoming Pittsburgh's first television female sports journalist. On July 15, 1974, Patti Burns (Bill Burns' daughter) joined the station as anchor/reporter. In September 1976, Bill Burns and Patti Burns began anchor the 12 p.m. weekday newscast, becoming the first father/daughter anchor team in the United States, they would both anchor together for more than 10 years. On June 16, 2009, KDKA-TV began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.