On July 6, 2010, station management announced it would shut down KPTM's news department and outsource production of the 9 p.m. newscast to the Independent News Network starting September 6. The newscasts' in-studio content (news anchors, sports anchors, meteorologists and related personnel) are provided from INN's centralized facilities in Davenport, Iowa, with KPTM retaining a team of Omaha-based reporters to provide local content. As part of the agreement with INN, KPTM's newscasts would be produced in high-definition (the previous in-house newscasts, except for the "Heartland Proud" segment, were not broadcast in HD). Because INN does not produce newscasts on Saturdays, the 9 p.m. newscast was cut back to six days a week (Sunday through Friday). The INN-produced weeknight newscasts were repeated Tuesday through Saturday mornings at 5 a.m. on KPTM-DT2.