CTV National News

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CTV National News
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Title screen on September 30, 2013
Created by Baden Langton
Ab Douglas
Presented byWeekdays:
Sandie Rinaldo
(2023–present, early edition)
Omar Sachedina (2022–present, late edition)
Weekends and Fill-in:
Heather Butts (2023–present)
Country of originCanada
Production
Production locations 9 Channel Nine Court
Toronto, Ontario
Running time30 minutes
Production company CTV News
Original release
Network CTV
ReleaseSeptember 24, 1962 (1962-09-24) [1]  –
present

CTV National News is the flagship newscast of CTV News, the news division of the CTV Television Network, which airs at 11:00 pm local time on the CTV stations across Canada, and is produced from CTV's facilities at 9 Channel Nine Court in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario. It also airs on CTV News Channel, CTV's 24-hour cable news television channel, live at 10:00 pm Eastern—or 11:00 Atlantic, when the newscast begins its nightly run across the network—with hourly repeats until 2:00 am Eastern (11:00 pm Pacific). The previous day's newscast can be seen on the Internet.

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The newscast has been presented by Omar Sachedina since September 5, 2022, who succeeded longtime anchor Lisa LaFlamme. [2] Sandie Rinaldo, the longtime weekend anchor, moved in November 2023 to a new early 5:30 p.m. weekday edition that launched on November 13; [3] she was succeeded as weekend anchor by Heather Butts. [4]

LaFlamme succeeded veteran anchor Lloyd Robertson during the second half of 2011, following Robertson's retirement. [5] Substitute anchors include Butts (for weekday broadcasts), Anne-Marie Mediwake, Todd van der Heyden, Joy Malbon, Vassy Kapelos, John Vennavally-Rao, Heather Wright, Merella Fernandez and Jon Erlichman.

The title CTV National News was rarely used in the 1990s and early 2000s; weeknights, the program was called CTV News with Lloyd Robertson and on the weekends, CTV News with Sandie Rinaldo. The title CTV National News was reintroduced in 2008, because CTV News had become the name of both the national and local news on CTV owned-and-operated (O&O) stations, although the banner continues to bear the title CTV News.

The newscast started as a 15-minute program and then ran for 20 minutes from 1963 until it was expanded to a half-hour on September 5, 1988. From 1962 to 1992, the newscast ran a perennial second in national news ratings to CBC Television's The National . In 1992, its ratings jumped significantly after the CBC's unsuccessful relaunching of its newscast as Prime Time News . CTV National News became the top-rated newscast for the first time in its history. [6]

Stories from local stations that have national importance are taken from the local station, and a 'national reporter' re-does the story, often from a location hundreds or even thousands of miles from the location of the story. The national reporter always mentions their name and location where they are based at the end of the story, even though that location is often different from the location of the story.

Until September 1998, CTV National News aired at midnight in the Maritime provinces. This was because CTV National News only produced one edition for the entire network, which aired live at 11:00 pm EST. When CTV Atlantic was purchased by Baton Broadcasting in 1997, one of the improvements was for CTV News to produce a second edition of the national newscast that would air in the Atlantic time zone at 11:00 pm. CTV National News moved to its new time in September 1998. [7]

CTV National News is not the same as CTV Evening News, a title that appears in some national ratings reports and is sometimes erroneously associated with the 11:00 p.m. newscast. The Evening News is not a single newscast but the national aggregate of CTV O&Os' local 6:00 p.m. newscasts. (All networks have their O&Os' local newscasts aggregated for national ratings purposes.)

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The program was launched as CTV World News on September 24th 1962 as a fifteen-minute program, scheduled at 10:30pm, from the studios of CJOH in Ottawa. It was presented by two anchors: Baden Langton and Ab Douglas. [8] [9] Peter Jennings became a co-anchor in 1963 and remained with the newscast until 1964, when he joined ABC News, where he would become a long-time foreign correspondent and news anchor. [10]

Larry Henderson, the former host of The National was CTV's international affairs analyst and weekend anchor for several years.

In the 1962–63 season, struggling to compete with CBC's more established CBC National News , CTV scheduled its newscast for 10:30, scheduling a variety show, Network , for 10:45 p.m. The experiment lasted one season. In 1963, the program moved to 11 p.m. and was expanded to 20 minutes. [1]

Langton joined ABC News in the United States in 1964, first with ABC Radio in New York and then in Washington, DC as White House correspondent for ABC News on both radio and television. [11] Jennings soon followed him, joining ABC television's ABC Evening Report later that year, and becoming anchor in 1965. Harvey Kirck, Jennings' co-anchor since Langton's departure, became the newscast's sole anchor.

In 1976, CTV National News scored a major coup by hiring Lloyd Robertson, anchor of CBC's The National, as co-anchor with Kirck. When Kirck retired in 1984, Robertson became sole weekday anchor of the program, a position he held until 2011.

For a time in the late 1970s and again in the early 1990s, Keith Morrison acted as weekend and substitute anchor and was considered Robertson's likely successor [12] before a network shakeup resulted in his moving to NBC News. Sandie Rinaldo served as weekend anchor from 1985 until her 2023 promotion to host the weeknight early edition, excluding a brief period from 1990 to 1991.

With a total of 40 years on two networks, Robertson was the second-longest tenured news anchor on English-language North American television (network or local), behind Dave Ward, who was the top anchorman at KTRK-TV in Houston, Texas from 1967 to 2017. He was the longest-tenured network news anchor in North America, outlasting several long-standing anchors in the United States. On October 18, 2006, Robertson celebrated his 30th year as a CTV National News anchor. (Jim Lehrer had presented The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer since its inception in 1975, beating Robertson by almost a year, but he only presented as a sole anchor of the programme from 1995 until 2011.)

On July 8, 2010, Robertson announced that he would retire on September 1, 2011—his 35th anniversary at CTV. [13] The following day, CTV announced Lisa LaFlamme, the network's chief international correspondent and Robertson's backup anchor since 2003, had been named as Robertson's successor. [5] LaFlamme formally took over the program on September 2, 2011. On August 15, 2022, it was announced by Bell Media and CTV that LaFlamme's contract was not being renewed by the network due to a "business decision" to take the newscast "in a different direction". Omar Sachedina assumed the role of chief news anchor and senior editor of CTV National News, as of September 5, 2022. [14]

LaFlamme's departure from the newscast led to allegations that she was fired for having let her hair go grey during the COVID-19 pandemic. [15] In particular, CTV News head Michael Melling faced scrutiny when it was revealed that he had asked in internal memos for an explanation of who had permitted LaFlamme to make that decision, and had sparred with LaFlamme over the costs involved in covering both the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. [16] CTV denied the allegations that LaFlamme's age or hair colour had entered into the decision, [17] and announced a workplace review. [2]

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  2. 1 2 Connie Thiessen, "Bell Media to launch third-party newsroom investigation". Broadcast Dialogue, August 19, 2022.
  3. ↑ "CTV News adds new early evening broadcast hosted by Sandie Rinaldo". Canadian Press. 2023-10-31. Retrieved 2024-02-08– via Toronto Star.
  4. ↑ Connie Thiessen, "Heather Butts named CTV National News weekend anchor". Broadcast Dialogue, December 12, 2023.
  5. 1 2 "LaFlamme to replace Robertson as CTV news anchor". Toronto Star , July 9, 2010.
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  12. ↑ Jul 02, 2003 - Anchor away: Journalist Keith Morrison has found success south of the border by Ned Powers Archived 2006-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ "Lloyd Robertson announces retirement". CTV News. July 8, 2010. Archived from the original on July 12, 2010. Retrieved July 9, 2010.
  14. ↑ Mak, Ivy (15 August 2022). "'I was blindsided:' Long-time news anchor Lisa LaFlamme speaks out after CTV ends contract". Toronto Star. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  15. ↑ Lelyand Cecco, "Anger as Lisa LaFlamme dropped as Canada TV anchor after going grey". The Guardian , August 19, 2022.
  16. ↑ Robyn Doolittle, "Lisa LaFlamme ‘going grey’ questioned by CTV executive, says senior company official". The Globe and Mail , August 18, 2022.
  17. ↑ Connie Thiessen, "Bell SVP Karine Moses ‘sets the record straight’ on LaFlamme exit". Broadcast Dialogue, August 18, 2022.
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