The station's newscasts have been known over the years as "Eyewitness 7 News", "7 Eyewitness News", "NewsChannel 7", "7 On Your Side" and since January 2016 as "7 News". Among the notable former members of the station's news staff were Leeza Gibbons, Jane Robelot and former CBS anchor Susan McGinnis. In 1977, WSPA hired Annette Estes as anchor of its evening newscasts, becoming the station's first female news anchor; Estes left the station in 1987 to become the 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. co-anchor (alongside Carl Clark) at WYFF.