The channel provides 24-hour rolling news coverage focused primarily on Central Florida, specifically Brevard, Flagler, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Sumter, and Volusia counties.

[2] On November 1, 2011, Central Florida News 13 launched a high definition simulcast feed[citation needed] and began airing its newscasts in the format.

As part of the upgrade, the channel installed a new master control system and unveiled a slightly modified graphics package.

On April 1, 2015, Charter Communications announced that it would be acquiring Bright House Networks, alongside its merger with Time Warner Cable.

Mateen also said the shooting was "triggered" by a U.S.-led bombing strike in Iraq that killed Abu Wahib, an ISIL military commander, on May 6, 2016.

On February 22, 2023, News 13 journalist Dylan Lyons and photographer Jesse Walden were shot in a Pine Hills, Florida neighborhood while covering the scene of a fatal shooting that had killed a woman earlier the same day after the suspected shooter returned to the scene of the crime.

The suspected shooter, 19-year-old Keith Melvin Moses, who had an extensive criminal history, also fatally shot a 9-year-old girl and injured her mother shortly after attacking the news crew.

[7] In Focus with Allison Walker is a half-hour public affairs program that covers Florida, and is simulcast in both markets.

It airs Sundays at 11:30 a.m. with an encore at 8:30 p.m.[8] There are other daypart specific offerings, such as A+ Teacher,[9] Everyday Heroes,[10] Pursuit Unlimited[11] and Florida On A Tankful.