News division of CTV Television Network
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.
National programs
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CTV's national news division produces the following programs which air on the main CTV network:
The national news operation also produces a roughly ten-minute national and international news summary, also anchored by Heather Butts, which has been embedded in CTV O&Os' weekend early evening newscasts since November 2023.
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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.
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Canada AM'
s replacement
Your Morning
is produced by Bell Media Studios, with news content provided by CTV News.
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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.
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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.
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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, and Quebec.
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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:
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,
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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
CITY-TV
. The channel airs news programs focused on the region, and currently airs simulcasts of CFTO's 6:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. newscasts.
News bureaus
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CTV 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
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International
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My News
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In 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.
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NewsDay
and
NewsNight
by CTV News
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NewsDay
and
NewsNight
aired weekly on
Quibi
exclusively in Canada. It was hosted by Heather Butts and Reshmi Nair.
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Quibi was shut down on December 1, 2020.
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References
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"Head of CTV News Michael Melling reassigned after Lisa LaFlamme fallout"
. CTV News. 19 December 2022
. Retrieved
2023-01-04
.
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"CTV News adds new early evening broadcast hosted by Sandie Rinaldo"
. The Canadian Press. October 31, 2023
. Retrieved
November 21,
2023
.
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Yarr, Kevin (2016-06-06).
"Canada AM co-host 'saddened and disappointed' by show's cancellation"
.
CBC News
. Retrieved
2016-06-09
.
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Bell Media (press release) (2016-06-06).
"Welcome to YOUR MORNING: CTV's New Morning Show to Premiere this Summer"
. Retrieved
2016-06-09
.
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Thiessen, Connie (2024-02-08).
"Bell to reduce workforce by 4,800, divest 45 radio stations"
.
Broadcast Dialogue
. Retrieved
2024-02-08
.
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"CTV News adds new early evening broadcast hosted by Sandie Rinaldo"
. Canadian Press. 2023-10-31
. Retrieved
2024-02-08
– via Toronto Star.
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Thiessen, Connie (2024-02-08).
"Most noon, weekend CTV newscasts cancelled as part of cuts at Bell Media"
.
Broadcast Dialogue
. Retrieved
2024-02-08
.
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"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
.
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"MyNews.CTVNews.ca"
. CTV News
. Retrieved
2008-11-29
.
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Malik, Aisha (April 6, 2020).
"Mobile streaming service Quibi now available in Canada"
.
MobileSyrup
. Retrieved
April 6,
2020
.
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"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
.
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Baysinger, Tim (October 22, 2020).
"Quibi to Pull the Plug on Dec 1"
.
TheWrap
. Retrieved
October 22,
2020
.
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