With Fox preparing to heighten its profile once Fox took over the contractual rights to the National Football Conference television package in the Fall of 1994 (as part of December 1993 contract deal with the NFL that transferred the NFC contract from CBS), Fox began urging management at owned-and-operated and affiliated stations that had limited to no local news presence to develop full-scale news departments. Renaissance Broadcasting agreed to Fox's request and commenced development of a full-scale news department for Channel 43. Long-form newscasts would return to WPMT on September 12, 1994, when the station premiered its flagship prime time newscast, "Fox 43 News at Ten". Originally airing Monday through Fridays for a half-hour, it was first anchored by Evan Forrester and Donya Archer, who were accompanied by weather anchor Susan Schrack and sports director Tom Werme. (As of 2021, the weeknight editions of the 10:00 broadcast compete with prime time newscasts on CW affiliate WHP-DT3 21.3, and MeTV affiliate WGAL-DT2 8.2.) Half-hour Saturday and Sunday editions of the newscast were subsequently added on January 7, 1995; this was followed by the expansion of the weeknight editions of the newscast to one hour on September 13, 1997, with the weekend editions following suit on January 9, 1999.