WLNY resumed regular newscasts on July 2, 2012 with a two-hour morning program, "Live from the Couch" (which competes against the longer-established morning newscasts on WPIX and Fox-owned WNYW (channel 5); and an hour-long newscast at 9 p.m. Both programs are based out of WCBS-TV's West 57th Street studios in Manhattan. In July 2014, WLNY made the decision to expand its hour long 9 p.m. newscast to weekends, with WCBS' weekend evening staff (Cindy Hsu, Elise Finch, and Steve Overmeyer). The first weekend 9 p.m. newscast aired on July 12, 2014. Additional newscasts are likely to be added in the future. WLNY has received some criticism from the Long Island Fair Media Council accusing the station of abandoning its focus on Long Island. CBS management blamed the lack of coverage on work being done on WLNY's former full-time facility in Melville. The facility, which was converted into a news bureau set up to cover Long Island news stories, was completed in July 2012. On May 23, 2014, WLNY made the decision to cancel "Live from the Couch". Although ratings for the newscast are not available, poor ratings were the likely cause for the cancellation.