WHBQ's newscasts, for many years, had been branded as "Eyewitness News" and stayed true to that format's "Happy Talk" element, along with using the "Cool Hand Luke" music package that was used by ABC's owned-and-operated stations. WHBQ had a number of highly-visible anchors and reporters during the 1970s and 1980s, including Ed Craig, Tom Bearden, Marge Thrasher, Fran Fawcett, Jim Jaggers and Charlie B. Watson. After Fox acquired the station in 1995, the station expanded its newscasts: its weekday morning newscast expanded from one hour to three, with the addition of a two-hour block from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m., the 6:00 p.m. newscast was removed in favor of expanding the 5:00 p.m. news to one hour, and the late evening newscast was moved from 10:00 to 9:00 p.m. and expanded to one hour. The newscasts were also briefly retitled "Fox 13 Eyewitness News", before the title was truncated to "Fox 13 News" in 1997. Despite this change (and even rivals WPTY-TV and WLMT branding their newscasts under the "Eyewitness News" title for several years starting in 2002), WHBQ has retained the "Happy Talk" format to this day.