On September 15, 2014, Warner Bros. Television Distribution announced that it would order Crime Watch Daily for the 2015–16 season, with Tribune Broadcasting carrying the program on stations owned and/or operated by the group in 29 markets – covering 42% of the United States (including its three largest, CW affiliates WPIX/New York City, KTLA/Los Angeles and independent WGN-TV/Chicago) – most of which would air the program as a lead-in to their early-evening newscasts (Crime Watch Daily also airs on Tribune-run stations that either do not air any local news programming, or outsource news production to a co-owned or another local station).

Through the distribution agreement with Tribune, the group also struck a news sharing partnership with the program to provide video content of crime stories filed by its news-producing stations.

Through the Tribune agreement and subsequent group distribution deals, Crime Watch Daily expanded its content partnerships to provide video from crime-related stories filed by the program's affiliate stations, serving as an "extended newsroom", with reporters employed with stations that air the program contributing to the "APB/Crime Watch Local" segment to provide additional details on the segment's featured story.

[6] On May 5, 2015, Warner Bros. Television announced that Australian journalist Matt Doran (formerly an anchor/reporter for Network Ten and host of the similarly formatted newsmagazine Wanted) would serve as anchor of the program, with Michelle Sigona (former correspondent of America's Most Wanted and 48 Hours), Andrea Isom (formerly a crime reporter for Fox owned-and-operated station WJBK in Detroit) and Jason Mattera serving as reporters.

[10] On August 22, 2016, it was announced that veteran journalist and former NBC News correspondent Chris Hansen, best known for his recurring Dateline series To Catch a Predator, would become the new host of Crime Watch Daily for its second season.

Facing a continued ratings struggle, Telepictures and Warner Bros. ceased production of Crime Watch Daily at the end of the season with its final new episode airing on June 8, 2018.