WBAY operates First Alert Weather 24/7 (formerly Stormcenter 2 24/7), a local weather channel that launched on August 7, 2005, and is carried on digital subchannel 2.2 and all local cable providers. The channel is produced in-house with no assistance from national services. It is fully automated, using the station's weather computers. 2.2 carried gavel-to-gavel coverage of Steven Avery's murder trial daily throughout March 2007 in a rare break from format. The subchannel originally launched in the summer of 2004, carrying 's coverage of the Republican and Democratic conventions, along with that year's presidential election.