A small market television station along the Central Coast that has provided local news coverage for more than five decades is shutting down its newsroom and outsourcing its daily newscasts.

KION-TV, located in Salinas, no longer has a working news department or regularly scheduled newscasts as of 5 p.m. Tuesday.

The station, which is owned by News-Press & Gazette, will instead get its daily newscasts from KPIX CBS Bay Area. The station previously provided CBS programming to the region until 1969.

"KION is entering a new chapter in local news by partnering with KPIX CBS San Francisco to bring expanded news coverage to viewers across the Central Coast," an article on the KION website reads.

A local Telemundo station which shares the newsroom with KION will also be affected by the shutdow

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