During March 2010, in a cost-cutting move, all owned and operated translators were shut down after Nexstar determined that its VHF signal for WBRE is adequate enough to reach the Wilkes-Barre viewing market.

While WYOU went with a talk / debate format for its weeknight shows, WBRE News became more of the traditional news program.

Finally weeknights at 6 o ' clock, Lyndall Stout ( who anchored on WBRE ) joined Eric Scheiner for the half-hour WYOU Inter @ ctive.

* On July 9, 2012, the dispute between Time Warner Cable and Hearst extended to other Time Warner systems ; on Time Warner systems in the Piedmont Triad and Bright House Networks systems in Central Florida, WXII-TV and WESH, respectively, was replaced with WBRE ; Time Warner and Bright House opted for such a distant signal like WBRE, as they do not have the rights to carry any NBC affiliate closest to them.

On July 9, 2012, WXII's parent company Hearst Television was involved in a dispute with Time Warner Cable, leading to WXII being pulled from Time Warner Cable and temporarily replaced with Nexstar Broadcasting Group station WBRE-TV of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ; Time Warner opted for such a distant signal like WBRE, as they do not have the rights to carry any NBC affiliate closest to them.

On July 9, 2012, WPTZ's parent company Hearst Television was involved in a dispute with Time Warner Cable, leading to WPTZ being pulled from Time Warner Cable and temporarily replaced with Nexstar Broadcasting Group station WBRE-TV of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ; Time Warner opted for such a distant signal like WBRE, as they do not have the rights to carry any NBC affiliate closest to them.

On July 9, 2012, WESH's parent company Hearst Television was involved in a dispute with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, leading to WESH being pulled from Bright House and temporarily replaced with Nexstar Broadcasting Group station WBRE-TV of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania ; Bright House opted for such a distant signal like WBRE, as they do not have the rights to carry any NBC affiliate closest to them.

Although most of WYOU's operations are based at WBRE's facilities on South Franklin Street in Downtown Wilkes-Barre, it has a sales office on Lackawanna Avenue in Downtown Scranton that is shared with a WBRE news bureau.

During the 1950s and 1960s, mirroring the century-long rivalry between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, WBRE ruled Wilkes-Barre while WDAU-TV ( now WYOU ) dominated Scranton.

The substitution of WBRE in place of WPTZ, WESH and WXII lasted until July 19, 2012, when the deal was reached between Hearst and Time Warner.

The substitution of WBRE in place of WXII lasted until July 19, 2012, when the deal was reached between Hearst and Time Warner.

The substitution of WBRE in place of WPTZ lasted until July 19, 2012, when the deal was reached between Hearst and Time Warner.

The substitution of WBRE in place of WESH lasted until July 19, 2012, when the deal was reached between Hearst and Time Warner.

Syndicated programming on WBRE includes: Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy !, Dr. Oz, and Oprah.

It was owned by the Baltimore family along with WBRE radio ( 1340 AM now WYCK and 98. 5 FM now WKRZ ).

In 1972, disaster struck at WBRE when its offices were flooded by Hurricane Agnes.

Nexstar already owned WYOU but opted to keep WBRE and sold WYOU to Mission Broadcasting.

On February 17, 2009 as part of the optional transition to digital-only broadcasting, WBRE left UHF channel 28 and continued to operate its digital signal on VHF channel 11.

Like other stations in the area, WBRE must rely on repeaters to serve its coverage area.

In 2002, WBRE and WYOU dropped their separate weekday morning and noon newscasts in favor of Pennsylvania Morning and Pennsylvania Midday which were jointly-produced and simulcasted on both stations.

WYOU generally did a traditional newscast whenever WBRE had programming that bumped its broadcasts back by a significant amount of time.

WBRE re-launched its news operation as WBRE Eyewitness News.

Candice Kelly, who had been anchoring on WYOU, moved to the weeknight newscasts on WBRE back in mid-May and was joined by newcomer Drew Speier.

In addition, WBRE and WYOU ’ s midday shows switched anchors.

Mark Hiller moved from WBRE to WYOU while Eva Mastromatteo switched over to this station.

On April 4, 2009, WYOU shut down its news operation resulting in the lay off of fourteen personnel while others were integrated with WBRE.

) Fox then went to WBRE to take over starting January 1, 2010.

WBRE then took over production of nightly prime time broadcasts on WOLF-TV which expanded to an hour and were re-branded as Fox 56 News First at 10.

WBRE launched a new 4 p. m. show called PA Live in the fall of 2011.

Britain's departure from the ERM led to a fall in the opinion poll ratings for the Conservative Party, which despite the improvement in the economic position, did not fully recover whilst John Major was Prime Minister.

Poor ratings and criticism of the series led to its cancellation in 2010.

Declining viewer ratings led to ABC's insistence that the identity of Laura's murderer be revealed midway through the second season.

These factors led to the network struggling in the ratings over the past few years, with its most recent Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: Enterprise, perhaps suffering the most and ultimately being cancelled by the network in a controversial decision in February 2005.

Survivor led the ratings in 2001 – 02, and Idol topped the ratings six consecutive years, from 2004 – 05 to 2009 – 10 ).

This eliminated much of the excitement present in other versions, and declining ratings led to a switch from prime time to Saturday afternoons.

CNN's debate and election night coverage led to its highest ratings of the year, with January 2008 viewership averaging 1. 1 million viewers, a 41 % increase over the previous year.

The two programs would trade wins in the ensuing ratings competition until mid-1996, when WCW began a nearly two-year domination that was largely fueled by the introduction of the New World Order, a stable led by former WWF performers Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash.

The show led to further TV ratings competition with WCW, up against WCW Thunder.

However, ratings remained low and by April 1994, Multimedia threatened cancellation if ratings didn't improve by that November, which led to an overhaul that saw original producer Burt Dubrow's departure and replacement by fellow Springer producer Richard Dominick.

The search for higher ratings gradually led the program towards provocative and confrontational topics, becoming more successful as it became geared towards youthful viewers ( in the vein of Ricki Lake's show ) by introducing more controversial topics.

A ratings smash, the special led the troupe to produce another weekly television series, which debuted in 1993.

This scheduling move led to a spike in ratings that saw it once again rally to the top 10 in the Nielsen ratings until the 1973 – 1974 television season.

The show's rapid rise to popularity led it to top the ratings consistently on RTÉ for forty years.

As the 2000s progressed, many of these shows began to see sagging ratings and the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy in 2004 exacerbated the situation as the fear of monetary penalties by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) for indecent content led many dating shows ( and many syndicated programs targeted at the 18-49 demographic, in general ) to be censored to the point where even profanities typically permissible on television were edited out of episodes.

This has led to suggestions that, rather than rely on CRA ratings in financial regulation, financial regulators should instead require banks, broker-dealers and insurance firms ( among others ) to use credit spreads when calculating the risk in their portfolio.

This has led to accusations that these CRAs are plagued by conflicts of interest that might inhibit them from providing accurate and honest ratings.

However, as the 1960s wore on, ratings began to fall and this, with health questions around Jack Warner, led the BBC to end the series in 1976.

The X-Files earned high viewership ratings, and led to Carter being able to negotiate the creation of future series.

However, years of declining ratings and local cancellations have led to unconfirmed rumors and speculation that WKAQ may become a standard Telemundo station, dropping all local programing except for Telenoticias.

This continued through season two until low ratings led to its cancellation in 1970.

At the end of the second season of Enterprise, poor ratings and reviews led to a new attempt to revamp the show by creating the Xindi race.