Canada Now
| Canada Now | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | CBC News: Canada Now |
| Presented by | National: Ian Hanomansing; Regional: varies by station |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes (National: 30 minutes; Regional: 30 minutes) |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBC Television |
| Release | October 2, 2000 – February 16, 2007 |
Canada Now (more formally CBC News: Canada Now) was the early-evening national news program on CBC Television, the main English television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, between 2000 and 2007. For most of its run, it was structured as a hybrid national-regional newscast, with each portion being 30 minutes in length.
History
The program was created to replace the regular supper-hour newscasts on the CBC's
The national half of Canada Now was also broadcast on
By 2005, the corporation began taking tentative steps towards expanding local news programming, with
On November 30, 2006, CBC Television announced that it would cancel Canada Now and expand the local CBC News at Six broadcasts to a full hour in the coming year, thereby reverting to the pre-2000 early-evening news model.[4] Canada Now was last broadcast on February 16, 2007, replaced by the newly expanded CBC News at Six broadcasts on February 19. Ian Hanomansing was reassigned to co-host the new Vancouver local news program on CBUT, which briefly retained the Canada Now title before it was renamed CBC News: Vancouver in July 2007.
See also
- CBC News
- CBC Television local newscasts
- Sixty Minutes (UK TV series), a defunct BBC newscast following a similar format.
References
- ^ CBC to drop local news, cut 500 jobs Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine, Chris Cobb, Ottawa Citizen, April 16, 2000. Accessed online June 9, 2009 (via Friends of Canadian Broadcasting).
- ^ How CBC gave away its supper-hour audience Archived 2007-11-14 at the Wayback Machine, Vannessa Gaudet, King's Journalism Review, November 24, 2006. Accessed online June 22, 2010.
- ^ "CBC | Radio-Canada Annual Report 2005-2006" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-10-09. Retrieved 2010-06-22.
- ^ CBC to restore one-hour local news shows, cancel Canada Now, CBC News, December 4, 2006. Accessed online June 9, 2009.