News operation
KUVN-DT broadcasts 20 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 3 hours, 35 minutes each weekday; one hour on Saturdays and two hours on Sundays). Following its acquisition by Univision, the network invested in a news department for the station and began producing nightly Spanish-language local newscasts in April 1989.[9]
On April 11, 2011, KUVN began broadcasting Primera Edición and Vive La Mañana on Telefutura affiliate KSTR (channel 49). Like its newscasts at different times, it is broadcast in 480i standard definition, within their old studio set. Sister station KXLN-DT in Houston also uses the same titles for their newscasts; Vive La Mañana features a different graphics and music package shared by both KUVN and KXLN. In 2011, a new set for KUVN's newscasts was introduced. In 2012, KUVN began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.
On March 27, 2015, Univision announced it would replace Univision 23's morning newscast and Univision 45's Vive La Mañana with a regionalized morning newscast called Noticias Texas Primera Edicion that would air on Univision's stations in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin from 4 to 6 a.m., meaning that Univision 23's morning show would be canceled; its last morning newscast was on March 27, 2015. The station's morning news anchors got relocated to Houston where the new regionalized morning newscast would be based. The station also has morning news briefs and local, live cut-ins during Despierta América and the regionalized newscast. The regionalized newscast debuted on April 6, 2015; until then, there were repeats of Noticiero Univision: Edición Nocturna and entertainment programming. On April 17, 2017, KUVN launched a midday newscast called Edición Digital Dallas–Fort Worth, which viewers can watch on TV, the station's website and its digital platforms. On March 11, 2019, KUVN-DT relaunched its own morning newscast being called Primera Edición DFW, focusing solely on the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
