CBC News Network
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Launched | July 31, 1989 |
Former names | CBC Newsworld (1989–2009) |
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CBC News Network (formerly CBC Newsworld) is a Canadian English-language specialty news channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. As Canada's first all-news channel,[1] it is the world's third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in the United States and Sky News in the United Kingdom.
It is funded by cable subscriber fees and commercial advertising. Unlike the CBC's main television network, the channel cannot directly receive operational funds from the corporation's public funding allotment—although it does benefit from synergies with other CBC services, such as the ability to share reporters and programs with the main network.[2]
CBC News Network's French-language counterpart is Ici RDI, also owned by the CBC (or, Société Radio-Canada in French).
Revenue
According to the 2014 "Communications Monitoring Report" by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), CBC News Network in 2014 had 11.3 million subscribers and a revenue of $86.7 million.[3]
History
With CNN and CNN International already being widely available in Canada during the 1980s and beyond, private and state-owned Canadian broadcasters began to apply for a licence for a similar 24-hour news service in Canada. In 1987, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) awarded a licence to the CBC.[citation needed]
The launch of the CBC's 24-hour news service was delayed several times: first when
CBC Newsworld finally began broadcasting on 31 July 1989 from several regional studios in
(As of 2017, there are production studios in Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax.)In the 1990s, the channel also aired repeats of CBC Television's political sketch comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Royal Canadian Air Farce, but these were discontinued in 2001 after a CRTC directive that the shows did not qualify as news programming.[7]
In 2000, because of a fee dispute between
Newsworld International
Some of CBC News Network's programming also aired on the now-defunct
Soon after, Newsworld International was sold to
2009 re-launch
In December 2008, it was reported that the CBC planned to revamp Newsworld in 2009, as the result of a strategic review and
On 21 October 2009, it was announced that CBC Newsworld would be renamed CBC News Network on October 26 as part of a larger re-launch of the
CBC News Network HD
In January 2009, the CBC launched an HD
Programming
CBC News Network used to air a number of magazine-style programs, along with hourly news updates. The network has moved from that style of programming to focusing solely on live-news and documentary programs, including
The network's daytime schedule consists of live rolling news coverage, branded as CBC Newsroom (formerly known as
Power & Politics airs live from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. ET.[11] From 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. on weekdays, CBC News Network airs Canada Tonight.
Beginning with the
Other original programming that appear on CBC News Network includes:[1]
- Marketplace — Canadian consumer watchdog series[12]
- The Fifth Estate — investigative documentary newsmagazine series
- The Passionate Eye — documentary television series
- Rosemary Barton Live — live weekly program on political news and issues, hosted by CBC's chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton.[13]
- The Investigators — hosted by Diana Swain
Since 2021, the channel has also simulcast CBC Radio One's news phone-in show Cross Country Checkup on Sunday afternoons.
In 2023, CBC announced several programming changes, including news hosts, for both weekday and weekend programs. Among the changes was an official name change to daytime and weekend rolling news programming to ‘CBC Newsroom’. ‘CBC Rundown with Andrew Nichols’ was also ended, in favour of an expanded two-hour Canada Tonight.[14]
Program | Day | Time (ET) | Anchor/host | Description |
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Weekday programming | ||||
CBC Morning Live | Mon – Fri | 6 – 10 am | Heather Hiscox | |
CBC Newsrooom with... | 10 am – 1 pm | Aarti Pole | live rolling news
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1 – 5 pm | Andrew Nichols (Toronto) and Hannah Thibedeau (Ottawa) | |||
Power & Politics | 5 – 7 pm | David Cochrane | news & political talk show | |
Canada Tonight | 7 – 9 pm | Travis Dhanraj (as of January 2024) | news & political talk show | |
All-week programming | ||||
The National
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Mon – Thurs | 12 – 6 am;
9 – 11:59 pm |
Adrienne Arsenault | news broadcast |
Fri | Ian Hanomansing | |||
Sat | 12 – 6 am | |||
Sun | 9 – 11:59 pm | |||
Weekend programming | ||||
CBC Newsroom with.... | Sat | 6 – 11 am | Marianne Dimain | live rolling news
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11 am – 4 pm | Natasha Fatah | |||
Sun | 6 – 10 am | Marianne Dimain | ||
12 – 4 pm | Natasha Fatah | |||
Rosemary Barton Live[13] | Sun | 10 am – 12 pm;
5 – 7 pm |
Rosemary Barton | weekly program on political news and issues |
Cross Country Checkup | Sun | 4 – 5 pm | Ian Hanomansing | Weekly call-in news show simulcast from CBC Radio One |
Marketplace[12] | Sat | 5:30 – 6 pm;
9:30 – 10 pm; 11:30 pm – 12:00 am |
Asha Tomlinson, Charlsie Agro and David Common | Canadian consumer watchdog series |
CBC Newsroom with... | Sat | 4 – 5:30, 6 – 6:30 pm, 9 – 9:30 pm, 11 – 11:30 pm | Deana Sumanac-Johnson | live news |
The Fifth Estate | Sat – Sun | 7 – 8 pm | Bob McKeown, Mark Kelley, Habiba Nosheen, and Gillian Findlay | investigative documentary newsmagazine series |
CBC Docs POV[16] | Sat | 10 – 11 pm | N/A | point-of-view documentary series |
Sun | 1 – 2 am | |||
At Issue[17] | Sat | 6:30 – 7 pm | Rosemary Barton; Chantal Hébert, Andrew Coyne and Althia Raj (panelists) | political panel show |
Sun | 12:30 – 1 am;
2:30 – 3 am; | |||
CBC News Network | Sun | 8 – 9 pm | Deanna Sumanac-Johnson | live news |
The Nature of Things[18] | Sat | 8 – 9 pm | David Suzuki | popular science program |
Sun | 4 – 5 am | |||
Mon | 2 – 3 am | |||
Anchors
Current
- Peter Armstrong
- Adrienne Arsenault
- Rosemary Barton
- Travis Dhanraj
- Natasha Fatah
- Jennifer Hall
- Ian Hanomansing
- Heather Hiscox
- Colleen Jones
- Carole MacNeil
- Andrew Nichols
- Scott Peterson
- Aarti Pole
- Hannah Thibedeau
Former
Original members of the first Newsworld anchor team:
- George Boyd
- Whit Fraser
- Beth Gaines
- Jane Gilbert
- Paul Griffin
Other former anchors:
- Dave Brindle
- The National
- Bill Cameron — deceased (2005)
- Bruce Dowbiggin — 1990s
- Harry Forestell — later host of CBC News: New Brunswick
- Dawna Friesen — now with Global National
- Tom Harrington — current host of The World This Hour on CBC Radio One
- Michaëlle Jean — now former Governor General of Canada
- Vassy Kapelos — moved to CTV News in November 2022 to become the host of Power Play and Question Period.[19][1]
- Mark Kelley[20]
- Nil Köksal — became host of World Report, CBC News Toronto Weekend, and CBC Toronto News at 11 (Sunday),[21] currently host of As It Happens since July 2022[22]
- Bloomberg North on Bloomberg TV Canada[23]
- Anne-Marie Mediwake — now CTV Morning Live
- Suhana Meharchand
- Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia
- Reshmi Nair
- Don Newman — retired
- John Northcott - now weekend anchor of World Report on CBC Radio One
- Anne Petrie
- Kathleen Petty — current host of Ottawa Morning on CBC Radio Ottawa
- Lorne Saxberg — died in snorkelling accident in Thailand
- Sarika Sehgal — moved to CTV News Channel; now deceased[24]
- The World at Six on CBC Radio One with Bernie McNamee
- Evan Solomon — now host of Question Period on CTV News Channel
- George Stroumboulopoulos — now freelance
- Sheldon Turcott — retired; deceased as of 2000
- Nancy Wilson — retired
- Michael Serapio — now CPAC host [25]
- Ginella Massa
Logos
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2001–2009 (CBC Newsworld)
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Oct 2009–Mar 2016
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Oct 2009–Mar 2016 (HD)
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2016–2021
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2016–2021 (HD; seen only in channel lineups)
References
- ^ a b c d e f "CBC News Network - CBC Media Centre". Archived from the original on 2021-06-04. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ Decision CRTC 2000-3 Archived 2009-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, CBC News Network's 2000 CRTC licence renewal
- ^ "2014 Communications Monitoring Report." Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 2014. Archived from the original Archived 2015-09-01 at the Wayback Machine on 2014 September 18. p. 114.
- ^ "Allarcom asks cabinet to overturn ruling giving licence to CBC for all-news channel". Ottawa Citizen, December 23, 1987.
- ^ "CBC being sent back to drawing board over all-news plan". The Globe and Mail, January 27, 1988.
- ^ "CBC all-news network launch put off to August from February". The Globe and Mail, December 23, 1988.
- ^ "Broadcasters can't have it both ways". National Post, July 9, 2001.
- ^ Newsworld disappears from rural cable, CBC Saskatchewan, September 26, 2000
- ^ Robertson, Grant (2008-12-05). "CBC to retune its TV news division". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2021-05-17. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
- ^ CBC News (2009-10-21). "Changes to The National as CBC unveils new look". CBC News. Archived from the original on October 23, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
- ^ "Power & Politics - CBC Media Centre". Archived from the original on 2021-03-06. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ a b "marketplace - CBC Media Centre". Archived from the original on 2021-06-22. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
- ^ a b "Rosemary Barton Live - CBC Media Centre". Archived from the original on 2021-07-19. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ "CBC Media Centre - Travis Dhanraj Named New Host of CBC News' Canada Tonight". 2023-11-17.
- ^ "CBC.ca - Program Guide - Schedules". Archived from the original on 2022-06-06. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
- ^ "CBC Docs POV | Program Guide". www.cbc.ca. Archived from the original on 2022-09-09. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
- ^ "At Issue | Program Guide". www.cbc.ca. Archived from the original on 2009-11-05. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
- ^ "CBC.ca - Program Guide - Programs". Archived from the original on 2021-08-18. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
- ^ "CBC’s Vassy Kapelos moves to CTV News to host political shows Power Play and Question Period". The Globe and Mail, November 8, 2022.
- ^ "Major changes ahead at CBC News" Archived 2023-03-17 at the Wayback Machine. The Globe and Mail, Print Edition: June 16, 2009, Page R1.
- ^ "CBC.ca - Program Guide - Personalities". www.cbc.ca. Archived from the original on 2021-08-18. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ "Nil Köksal is the new host of CBC's As It Happens — and she's ready to make radio 'magic'". CBC Radio, July 11, 2022.
- ^ "Canadian Who's Who 2008". Archived from the original on 13 October 2008.
- ^ Former news anchor Sarika Sehgal dead at 42 Archived 2021-04-20 at the Wayback Machine, broadcastdialogue.com, May 27, 2019
- ^ "CPAC launches new long-form interview series Profile with Michael Serapio".