 On August 15, 2011 the two newscasts began to air on BEAM TV Channel 31 as The Game Channel was simulcast on that channel.Its simulcast on that channel stopped in October 2011.On October 29, 2012, after 42 years on the airwaves, "RPN NewsWatch" and "RPN NewsCap" were axed due to the impending privatization of the network and the controversial retrenchment of some employees of the network.