WHBQ-TV presently broadcasts 53½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 9 hours on weekdays, 4 hours on Saturdays and 4½ 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 both the Memphis market and the state of Tennessee. As is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, WHBQ's Saturday and Sunday 5:00 p.m. newscasts are subject to preemption due to network sports telecasts that are scheduled to overlap into the timeslot. WHBQ was one of four Fox O&Os to air a 5:00 p.m. newscast, but not a 6:00 p.m. newscast – along with Austin's KTBC, Houston's KRIV and Minneapolis' KMSP-TV (the network's Boston O&O WFXT was included in this distinction until September 2009, when the reverse became true after the station "moved" its 5:00 p.m. newscast to 6:00 p.m.; WFXT restored a 5:00 p.m. newscast in September 2013).