Immediately following the sale to Family Broadcasting Group, KSBI began airing occasional local breaking news cut-ins. In 2004, KSBI launched a weekday morning news and talk program called "Hello Oklahoma", which was hosted by Family Broadcasting executive Brenda Bennett, alongside former KWTV weekend evening anchor Scott Coppenbarger for its first year on the air before he was replaced by Dino Lalli; the two-hour program was canceled in 2006. Subsequently, that September, KSBI launched an hour-long early evening newscast, "Oklahoma News Tonight" (later renamed "KSBI-TV News"); originally anchored by Kealey McIntire and Monica Price, the program competed against the 5:30 p.m. national evening newscasts and the locally produced 6:00 p.m. newscasts on KFOR-TV (channel 4), KOCO-TV and KWTV (channel 9). In addition, KSBI aired prime time Presidential press conferences and State of the Union addresses, as well as national breaking news stories, using wire news video supplied by CNN Newsource.