DCW50 News at 10, a local news broadcast in Washington, is folding at the end of this month. The last broadcast will be on September 28, and all of the station’s photographers and reporters will lose their jobs.

Image via DCW50.

NBC4’s Mark Segraves was the first to report on the broadcast’s shuttering Thursday on Twitter. DCW50 is the region’s CW-affiliated channel, and Tribune Publishing owns the 10 p.m. newscast.

The move was announced in an email on Thursday from Larry Wert, the president of Tribune Publishing. Wert sent an email to the entire Tribune broadcast team at 11:30 a.m. announcing the end of the D.C. broadcast and another local broadcast in Houston.

“Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of a lot of talented employees, these shows haven’t delivered the ratings or the revenue we hoped for when they were launched,” the email reads. “The decision to discontinue any show is never easy and we don’t do it lightly. We understand that these decisions affect the lives of good people who gave their best efforts to achieve success.”

The general managers of the broadcast also announced the shuttering to the staff in an editorial meeting on Thursday, according to a person employed by the broadcast who did not want to be named. The entire staff—three photographers and three reporters, as well as the managing editor—will lose their jobs. The anchors and weather people, who work from WTVR in Richmond, will presumably stay employed.

The employee said that the staff generally understood that ratings were low, so the cancellation of the broadcast is not a total surprise. Some people, though, thought there would be a little more breathing room between the cancellation announcement and the last broadcast, the employee said.

The staff at DCW50 News, who work out of a studio in Glover Park, is quite small compared to other broadcasts in D.C.—FOX5 lists 29 anchors, reporters and weather people on its staff page and NBC4 lists 41. The employee said competing with these much larger stations required herculean efforts from the three staff reporters and three photographers, and they did everything they could have done with their resources.

The broadcast’s closure comes at a difficult time for local news generally, including in the Washington area. Last year, D.C.’s alt-weekly, the Washington City Paper, was in peril until it was bought at the last second by philanthroper Mark Ein. Baltimore’ City Paper wasn’t so lucky, and a substitute alt-weekly erected in its wake lasted four months. DCist was also abruptly shut down last year in the middle of a publishing day, and was saved only by the grace of public radio. The Current, a 50-year operation that includes five neighborhood papers covering Northwest Washington, filed for bankruptcy at the start of this year. Both WTOP and FOX5 are moving their operations outside D.C., though they’ll continue to cover the region.

DCW50 News at 10 had been covering the region since 2016.