KING-TV in the Seattle-Tacoma Metropolitan Area presently broadcasts 46 hours of locally produced newscasts each week. In 1968, Jean Enerson joined KING-TV, and on August 30, 1971, she became the first female local news anchor in the United States and went on to become one of the greatest television news anchors in Seattle-Tacoma television history. In 1970, KING-TV rebranded its newscast titles as "KING Newservice". In early summer 1971, John Lippman joined the station as a reporter. A year later (in 1972), he was promoted to main news anchor until he left in 1976. In 1974, Wendy Tokuda joined KING-TV as anchor/reporter, becoming one of the first Asian-American female journalists in Seattle television news history before she left in 1977. In 1976, Aaron Brown joined the station as reporter/anchor where he would remain for a decade. Also in 1977, Lou Dobbs joined the station as reporter/weekend anchor, before he left in 1979 and went on to become one of the original anchors of the then-new American cable television news network CNN. In 1977, Jeff Renner joined KING-TV as a science reporter. In 1978, the station rebranded its newscast title as "KING 5 News". In 1980, KING-TV debuted its weekday morning newscast: KING 5 Morning News, with Don Madsen (who joined the station in 1979) as anchor, Jeff Reiner with the weather, and traffic reports from Sky Twin Traffic. In 1981, Hattie Kaufmann joined the team as a reporter. In 1982, Renner was promoted to main weathercaster, where he would remain for more than 3 decades. In June 1983, Lori Matsukawa joined KING-TV where she would start a legend career for more than 35 years as anchor/reporter, by becoming the second Asian-American female journalist in Seattle television news history, and she started first as anchor of the "Top Story" news program at 6:30 a.m. weekend mornings. Also in 1983, Kaufmann was promoted to weekend evening anchor and later on to become lead weekday anchor before she left in May 1987. In 1985, Don Porter joined KING-TV as main weeknight news anchor where he would remain until his final broadcast there on March 29, 1991. In 1986, David Kerley joined Channel 5 as weekday reporter/weekend evening anchor where he would be for nearly 6 years. In 1987, Jim Compton (who joined the station 4 years ago) became the host of "The Compton Reporter" where he would do for 10 years. In December of that year, Rich Marriott joined the station as meteorologist for its weekday morning newscast. In the early 1990s, KING-TV launched its Investigators Unit team. In March 1991, Dennis Bounds joined the station as a reporter and eventually became anchor of the station's morning/noon weekday newscasts. In the mid 1990s, Susannah Frame joined KING-TV as anchor/reporter. On December 14, 1994, he was promoted to weeknight main news anchorman where he would remain for more than 20 years. Also in December 1994, Chris Ingalls joined the station as investigative reporter. In 1996, Shannon O'Donnell joined KING-TV as weekend morning weathercaster and stayed for 4 years. In 1999, KING-TV became one of the first television stations in the United States to broadcast local newscasts in high definition; at the time, it had only one HD-capable studio camera. On June 15, 2014, Jean Enerson retired from the anchor chair, but she remained on staff with KING-TV, primarily reporting for the health news series HealthLink. At the time, Enerson was replaced by Lori Matsukawa as main weekday evening anchor. In February 2016, KING-TV moved its news operation from its original studio at South Lake Union headquarters, and re-located to its new window-on-the-world studios at Home Plate Center (across the street from then-Safeco Field); at the time, its 360-degree set was added, also the Microsoft Surface Hub, a first-of-its-kind collaboration device featured an 84-inch, 4K touchscreen display with pen and touchscreen capabilities improve its storytelling and reporting for its newscasts. Also at the time, traffic & weather got faster and more interactive, and for the first time, new KING 5 traffic cameras were added. On April 22, 2016, 4 veteran journalists of KING-TV were retired full-time were: Jean Enersen (whom after over 45 years), Jeff Renner (whom after 39 years), and Dennis Bounds (whom after 25 years). In January 2017, Rich Marriott was promoted to senior meteorologist. On June 14, 2019, after 36 years, Lori Matsukawa retired from the station as anchor. In October 2021, Mike Everett joined the station as chief meteorologist for the weekday evening newscasts. In November 2021, Brady Wakayama joined the team as reporter. In June 2022, Madison Wade joined KING-TV as weekend morning news anchor.