WTVD presently broadcasts 43 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6½ hours each weekday, 4½ hours on Saturdays and six hours on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output of any television station in the Triangle market. For most of the last four decades, WTVD has been a solid second in ratings across the market, behind WRAL. This is in contrast to most of its ABC stablemates (including former Capital Cities sisters WPVI-TV in Philadelphia and KFSN-TV in Fresno, California), which dominate their markets' news ratings. However, WTVD is still one of the strongest ABC stations in the country.