Long-form newscasts returned in September 1991 after Chase Broadcasting restarted a news department for WXIN, which began producing a nightly 35-minute newscast at 10:00 p.m. Debuting as "Fox 59 Nightcast" – which was later retitled "Fox News at 10" in 1994 and then to "Fox 59 News at Ten" in 1997, it was first anchored by Bob Donaldson (who remained WXIN's lead anchor until January 2016, when he moved exclusively to sister station WTTV, with which he had been serving as its primary weeknight co-anchor since it joined CBS in January 2015) and Caroline Thau, alongside chief meteorologist Chris Wright (who left in 1994, and was replaced by current chief Brian Wilkes) and sports director (and former ABC Sports commentator) Brian Hammons. WXIN grew to become the ratings leader in the 10:00 p.m. timeslot, even with competition from a WRTV-produced newscast on WTTV (which began shortly before the start of WXIN's second primetime news effort, and was canceled in December 2002 after Tribune acquired WTTV) and WTHR's late newscast – which moved from 11:00 p.m. to 10:00 on April 7, 1991 as part of a short-lived "early primetime" network scheduling experiment; more competition sprang up when then-WB affiliate WNDY-TV debuted the WTHR-produced "Eyewitness News at 10:00" on March 16, 1996, which briefly moved to WIPX-TV when WISH-TV took over production of the WNDY newscast (as "24-Hour News 8 at 10:00") on February 28, 2005.