CTV News is the news division of the CTV Television Network in Canada. The name CTV News is also applied as the title of local and regional newscasts on the network's owned-and-operated stations (O&Os), which are closely tied to the national news division. Local newscasts on CTV 2 are also branded as CTV News, although in most cases they are managed separately from the newscasts on the main CTV network.
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| Industry | Media |
|---|---|
| Genre | News |
| Predecessor | A-Channel News/A News (CTV 2 stations) |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario , Canada |
Area served | National |
Key people | Richard Gray (vice president)[1] |
| Owner | Bell Media |
| Parent | CTV Television Network |
| Website | ctvnews |
History
editOn 1 September 2011, chief news anchor Lloyd Robertson retired after 35 years at the helm of the flagship.[2]
In September 2023 BellMedia celebrated long-time news anchor Sandie Rinaldo's 50th year with the franchise.[3]
On 26 September 2024 CTV News admitted that it had altered or manipulated a clip of Pierre Poilievre broadcast the previous Sunday. It fired two news editors and apologized "unreservedly".[4] On 2 October he ended his boycott of the broadcaster.[5]
National programs
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CTV's national news division produces the following programs which air on the main CTV network:
- CTV National News, the nightly newscasts anchored by Sandie Rinaldo (early evening weekdays), Omar Sachedina (late evening weekdays), and Heather Butts (late evening weekends);
- Question Period, a weekly news and interview series.
Additionally, CTV News operates the national 24-hour news channel CTV News Channel and the 24-hour national business news channel BNN Bloomberg, both of which are available across Canada on cable and satellite.
The news division produced the weekday morning news and entertainment program Canada AM from 1972 to October 2015, when responsibility for the program was transferred to Bell Media In-House Productions, the division responsible for CTV's other daytime lifestyle programming, until the program's cancellation in June 2016.[6] Canada AM's replacement Your Morning is produced by Bell Media Studios, with news content provided by CTV News.[7]
On February 8, 2024, Bell announced the cancellation of CTV's long-running newsmagazine W5 as part of budgetary and staff cuts. The brand will still be used for investigative journalism across CTV News properties.[8]
The national news operation also briefly produced a roughly ten-minute national and international news summary, anchored by Heather Butts, which was embedded in CTV O&Os' weekend early evening newscasts from November 2023 to February 2024,[9] when the majority of local weekend newscasts were cancelled.[10]
Local programs
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In most markets, local CTV News programs air at 6 p.m., and 11:00 p.m. (CTV 2) or 11:30 p.m. (CTV) on weekdays. In selected markets, 5:00 p.m. newscasts, and weekend newscasts at 6 p.m. and 11:00 p.m./11:30 p.m., are also produced, and several CTV stations in western Canada (and some CTV Two stations in eastern Canada) produce local morning newscasts under the title CTV Morning Live.
In 1998, shortly following the merger of the CTV network with Baton Broadcasting, local news branding on the CTV O&Os was unified with network news presentation, with newscast titles standardized under the format "(call sign) News", e.g. CFTO News for the Toronto station. Prior to this, the local O&Os used various titles, though one used in the late 1970s by a number of stations was World Beat News (for late-afternoon broadcasts) and Night Beat News (for late-night broadcasts). By late 2005 the O&Os' local newscasts had been renamed CTV News. Beginning in February 2014, local programs were rebranded using region-specific on-air titles such as CTV News Toronto.
On November 13, 2023, CTV replaced 5:30 p.m. newscasts with an evening edition of CTV National News.[11]
On February 8, 2024, Bell made major cuts to CTV's local newscasts. All noon newscasts outside of Toronto were cut, as well as weekend newscasts outside of Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa. Bell will also expand multimedia journalist models to Atlantic Canada, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec and Saskatchewan.[12]
National aggregate ratings published by BBM Canada refer to the local broadcasts collectively as CTV Evening News, CTV Late News, CTV Noon News, etc., although these titles are not used on-air. Since most CTV affiliates are owned by the network, CTV offers the opportunity to buy national ads on local programming across its O&Os, making these aggregate ratings useful for advertisers.
Local CTV News programs are produced in the following markets:
- Barrie (CKVR)
- Calgary (CFCN)
- Edmonton (CFRN)
- Greater Sudbury (CICI / CTV Northern Ontario)
- Halifax (CJCH / CTV 2 Atlantic)
- Kitchener (CKCO)
- London (CFPL)
- Montreal (CFCF)
- Ottawa (CJOH / CHRO)
- Regina (CKCK)
- Saskatoon (CFQC)
- Toronto (CFTO)
- Vancouver (CIVT)
- Victoria (CIVI)
- Winnipeg (CKY)
- Windsor (CHWI)
CTV O&Os in smaller markets air a newscast produced in one of the larger markets noted above, although some may also produce a shorter local news insert aired during a break in the main market's program, and some of these smaller stations produce their own noon newscasts.
Through the purchase of CHUM Limited, Bell Media acquired A News which produced local newscasts mainly in smaller markets or alternate areas of larger markets. When the A system was rebranded as "CTV Two" on August 29, 2011 (and later CTV 2), its newscasts switched to the CTV News branding,[13] likely because "CTV Two News" might be seen as connoting a second-class newscast. The CTV News broadcasts on the CTV 2 stations previously used the main CTV logo as their logo bug during these newscasts as did the main CTV network, but they currently use the regionally branded titles such as CTV News Barrie as is now the case for the CTV O&Os. Most of these stations are nevertheless required to separate their news operations from CTV stations in local and adjacent markets. This restriction does not apply to the cable-only channels CTV Two Atlantic, which has been co-owned with the local CTV stations since its launch (their news operations have been fully integrated since 1998), and CTV Two Alberta, which produces a current affairs program, Alberta Primetime, using resources from local CTV stations.
Independent affiliates also air their own local newscasts, such as NTV (which despite dropping CTV's entertainment programming in 2002, still provides coverage of Newfoundland for CTV News and airs its national newscasts), and CITL-TV (which airs Prime Time Local News, a production shared with its sister station, Global affiliate (now Citytv affiliate) CKSA-TV).
Bell Media also operates CP24, a regional news channel focusing on the Greater Toronto Area and most of Southern Ontario, which was acquired through the purchase of CHUM Limited, and formerly aligned with Citytv Toronto. The channel airs news programs focused on the region, and as of June 2024, the station airs simulcasts of CFTO's 12 noon (weekdays); 6:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. newscasts.
News bureaus
editCTV News has bureaus across Canada and around the world, but many were closed to cut costs (most recently those in London, Los Angeles, Moscow, and Kampala) and replaced with reporters sent to locations from the existing bureaus.
A list of current bureaus:
National
edit- Halifax
- Reporter: Paul Hollingsworth
- Fredericton
- Reporter: Sarah Plowman
- Montreal
- Bureau Chief: Geneviève Beauchemin
- Ottawa
- Chief Political Correspondent: Vassy Kapelos
- Reporters: Annie Bergeron-Oliver, Judy Trinh, Jeremie Charron, Colton Praill, and Mike Le Couteur
- Regina
- Reporter: Allison Bamford
- St. John's
- Reporter: Garrett Barry
- Toronto
- Reporters: John Vennavally-Rao, Heather Wright, Heather Butts, Adrian Ghobrial, Scott Hurst, Tony Grace, Kamil Karamali, and Cristina Tenaglia
- Winnipeg
- Bureau Chief: Vacant
- Calgary
- Reporter: Kathy Le
- Vancouver
- Bureau Chief: Andrew Johnson
International
edit- Washington - United States
- Bureau Chief: Joy Malbon
My News
editIn 2008, the CTV News website introduced My News, a citizen journalism feature allowing citizens to upload their images or videos relating to current events. Viewers may also upload media for any station or program.[14]
NewsDay and NewsNight by CTV News
editNewsDay and NewsNight aired weekly on Quibi exclusively in Canada. It was hosted by Heather Butts and Reshmi Nair.[15][16] Quibi was shut down on December 1, 2020.[17]
References
edit- ^ "Head of CTV News Michael Melling reassigned after Lisa LaFlamme fallout". CTV News. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
- ^ https://www.ctvnews.ca/lloyd-robertson-signs-off-for-final-time-1.691405.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ https://www.bellmedia.ca/the-lede/press/ctv-news-continues-to-celebrate-sandie-rinaldos-milestone-50th-year-at-the-network-with-primetime-special-sandie-rinaldos-50-50-september-19/.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ https://nationalpost.com/news/ctv-manipulated-clip-pierre-poilievre.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Pierre Poilievre ends CTV boycott, appears on Bell Media radio show after two news staffers ousted".
- ^ Yarr, Kevin (2016-06-06). "Canada AM co-host 'saddened and disappointed' by show's cancellation". CBC News. Retrieved 2016-06-09.
- ^ Bell Media (press release) (2016-06-06). "Welcome to YOUR MORNING: CTV's New Morning Show to Premiere this Summer". Retrieved 2016-06-09.
- ^ Thiessen, Connie (2024-02-08). "Bell to reduce workforce by 4,800, divest 45 radio stations". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
- ^ "CTV News adds new early evening broadcast hosted by Sandie Rinaldo". The Canadian Press. October 31, 2023. Retrieved November 21, 2023.
- ^ Thiessen, Connie (February 8, 2024). "Most noon, weekend CTV newscasts cancelled as part of cuts at Bell Media". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved August 21, 2024.
- ^ "CTV News adds new early evening broadcast hosted by Sandie Rinaldo". Canadian Press. 2023-10-31. Retrieved 2024-02-08 – via Toronto Star.
- ^ Thiessen, Connie (2024-02-08). "Most noon, weekend CTV newscasts cancelled as part of cuts at Bell Media". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
- ^ "Bell Media's /A\ Network to Become "CTV Two" This Fall". Bell Media Media Centre. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
- ^ "MyNews.CTVNews.ca". CTV News. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
- ^ Malik, Aisha (April 6, 2020). "Mobile streaming service Quibi now available in Canada". MobileSyrup. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
- ^ "Bell Media Announces Anchors for Quibi's Daily Essentials Programs in Canada ## NEWSDAY BY CTV NEWS, NEWSNIGHT BY CTV NEWS, and SPORTS AM BY TSN Launch April 6 - Bell Media". Archived from the original on 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ^ Baysinger, Tim (October 22, 2020). "Quibi to Pull the Plug on Dec 1". TheWrap. Retrieved October 22, 2020.