Power Play (2009 TV program)

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Power Play
Presented by Vassy Kapelos (M-Th)
Todd van der Heyden (F)
Country of originCanada
Production
Production locations Ottawa, Ontario
Running time60 minutes
Original release
Network CTV News Channel
ReleaseFebruary 2, 2009 (2009-02-02) –
present

Power Play is a Canadian public affairs television program which airs weekdays on CTV News Channel. Interviews are conducted with important Canadian political figures as well as political journalists and strategists. The program broadcasts from Parliament Hill, and debuted on February 2, 2009.

Its original host was Tom Clark; upon his departure from the network in September 2010, it was hosted on a week-by-week basis by various Bell Media journalists, including Jane Taber and Roger Smith, until CTV announced that Don Martin, a newspaper columnist, would become the new host of Power Play starting in mid-December 2010. [1] His retirement from the program was announced in November 2019, with the program to be taken over by Evan Solomon Mondays to Thursdays and Joyce Napier on Fridays. [2] Solomon left the show in October 2022 for a publishing role in New York City; [3] in November 2022, Vassy Kapelos was announced as his successor. [4] Napier departed the program in June 2023 after she was announced as a casualty of a round of cuts to Bell Media news personnel; her successor as the Friday host was announced to be Todd van der Heyden.

Power Play is the permanent successor to Mike Duffy Live , which aired until December 2008 when Mike Duffy, the host, was appointed to the Senate of Canada. Following the departure of Duffy, a program called On the Hill, hosted by Graham Richardson, ran for one month until Power Play premiered.

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References

  1. ↑ CTV Announces Don Martin as New Host of POWER PLAY on CTV News Channel Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine .
  2. ↑ Connie Thiessen, "Evan Solomon named new host of CTV’s Power Play". Broadcast Dialogue, November 18, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Evan Solomon leaves radio, TV jobs, moves to New York". Toronto Star . 3 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "CBC’s Vassy Kapelos moves to CTV News to host political shows Power Play and Question Period". The Globe and Mail , November 8, 2022.


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