In 2005, WFMZ formed a broadcast partnership with Philadelphia's ABC owned-and-operated station WPVI-TV (channel 6) that allowed the two stations to cooperate in news gathering for local stories. The most recent set for WFMZ's newscasts debuted on November 15, 2017. On May 1, 2008, WFMZ became the fourth television station in the Philadelphia market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. Until it expanded the program to 5 a.m. in 2012, WFMZ was the only news-producing television station in the Philadelphia market – and effectively the largest news-producing station in the United States by market size because Allentown was part of the Philadelphia market – whose weekday morning newscast continued to maintain a post-5 a.m. time slot. On October 15, 2014, WFMZ added an hour-long newscast at 4:00 p.m., making it the third station in the Philadelphia market (after WCAU, channel 10, and WPVI-TV, channel 6) to broadcast local news in that timeslot. On February 16, 2015, WFMZ debuted its new street-level studio inside the PPL Center sports arena in Center City Allentown; the noon newscast is broadcast from the location.