The nightly broadcast was helmed by a three-anchor team consisting of Pat Harper, Bill Jorgensen and Steve Bosh, with Jerry Girard reporting on sports and Roberto Tirado providing national weather forecasts (Tirado would later be replaced by Bob Harris); WPIX's local reporting staff was also utilized for the program.
WPIX transmitted the national show's live feed via satellite—initially via Westar 3—at 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time each night.
)[1] In the New York City area, WPIX paired a replay of the national INN broadcast at 10 p.m., with its own local newscast at 10:30, called the Action News Metropolitan Report.
During the decade, WPIX also offered the business-oriented news program The Wall Street Journal Report (which continues to air today in syndication and also airs on CNBC, albeit under the name of On the Money); and the Sunday newsmaker show From the Editor's Desk, hosted by Richard D. Heffner, to stations carrying INN.
Donna Hanover, who was already anchoring the local 7:30 WPIX newscast, anchored this newscast alongside Brad Holbrook (Marvin Scott, meanwhile, was reassigned to anchor the weekend editions of the national broadcast), which was part of a syndicated block called Inday, a co-venture of Tribune, LBS Communications and Columbia Pictures Television, designed to provide stations with a two-hour block of news and "infotainment"; Inday was cancelled after only one season, ending in September 1986.
Pat Harper would leave WPIX and INN in the spring of 1985, after being hired as the 6 p.m. co-anchor at New York's NBC owned-and-operated station, WNBC-TV; Sheila Stainback, formerly of WBAL-TV in Baltimore, was brought in to replace her alongside Dean.
[7][8] A year after the new format was implemented, Dean left Tribune for ABC News and a returning Brad Holbrook took the anchor position on weeknights.
The program was packaged into the second half-hour of WGN's late-evening newscast, which adopted a hybrid local-national format upon INN's debut (three months after the newscast was moved one hour earlier to 9 p.m.); WGN also aired INN as a standalone broadcast following its late night movie presentations.