KRCW produced local news and weather cut-ins under the name "Portland's Morning News" during the Tribune-produced "EyeOpener" program; the cut-ins were anchored by Ken Ackerman in-studio and weather segments were anchored by Tim Joyce. On June 15, 2017, Tribune Broadcasting announced the launch of "Morning Dose", a two-hour social media-focused morning show produced in partnership with Chicago-based digital content branding agency Dose, which replaced "EyeOpener" on the five Tribune stations carrying the latter program (KDAF, KIAH, KRCW, WDCW and WPHL). Hosted by Melissa Rycroft and Gary Striewski, with news segments anchored by Laila Muhammad (the only announced holdover from "EyeOpener"), the program features a mix of news stories selected by Dose through its social storytelling and scientific trend methodology to " the content and advancing the stories that will drive the day’s social conversation." Nicole DeCosta provides in-studio lifestyle segment cut-ins for the KRCW audience.