24Hours
Encyclopedia
24Hours is a one-hour news and current affairs
program that was broadcast by CBWT
, the CBC
television
station in Winnipeg
, Manitoba
, Canada
.
was kidnapped by the FLQ in Quebec) and first aired between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. The original on-air hosts were Garth Dawley
(news), Murray Parker
(weather), Don Wittman
& Bob Picken (sports), John Harvard
& Gerry Haslam (interviewer). On occasion, others contributed to the program, namely Heather Hildebrandt (CBC Winnipeg public affairs dep't) and freelancers Alice Poyser and Per Holting. Bill Morgan was the Producer in the first year, and Executive Producer in the second.
Although the reason why the newscast was called 24Hours is uncertain, advertising in the 1970s contained the slogan NEWS...Something to think about every 24Hours, something that would become less relevant since the 1980s with today's media choices.
The hour would begin with 10 to 13 minutes of news presented by Garth Dawley
, the program's first newsreader till 1983, followed by a 2-minute weather update, followed by a 10-minute documentary or interview. After a commercial break, national and international news would be presented, followed by a 5-minute sportscast. A full weather forecast of 5-minute duration would take place about 30-minutes into the program. Another documentary or interview segment would fill in the rest of the time. Closer to the hour's end would be a feature such as a review of an arts event, or a news-comedy skit. Each hour would end with a short summary of the day's news.
During the summer months in earlier years, 24Hours would switch to a 30-minute format with basic news, weather, and sports to give the documentary team time to cool down and then prepare for next season's documentaries.
Before The National was moved to 10 p.m. and The Journal created in 1982, occasionally a full-hour 24Hours documentary would air at this time, in addition to the regular 60 minutes of news at 6 p.m.
Starting in the 1977-78 season it moved from the 6:30-7:30 p.m. time to a more standard supper-hour of 6:00-7:00 p.m., where John Robertson replaced John Harvard as host.
John Harvard
, who was the program's first interviewer between 1970 and 1977, returned the day after the November 1981 Provincial election, and remained till 1986. He interviewed the former interviewer from the 1977-1981 period, John Robertson.
In September 1982 the chalkboard easel used for the 24Hours weather forecast regularly done by Murray Parker
, was replaced with an electronic Telidon
system. This was used for about 2 years when a regular CG
system was put in place.
Also in 1982, CBWT was a pioneer within CBC television stations to use Betacam
ENG cameras. Prior to this time, reports were filed on 16 mm film.
In 1983, electronic slides replaced the film-type that accompanied the news anchor of the various local news programs. For example, a slide machine with a red rounded trim was used in 1982-83, while the rest of the news set is a cream colour.
In May 1984, Marv Terhoch was appointed Director of CBWT of 24Hours.
Also between these years, Kevin Evans was the interviewer for 24Hours, until the local Videon
cable system replaced KTHI
Fargo with WDIV
Detroit, the latter featured Mort Crim
and his style of news and interviewing. To compete with that station, it hired former ABC correspondent Mike McCourt
who co-hosted the program between September 1986 and 1991.
John Bertrand, who was formerly the Winnipeg Sun
's Editor was hired on as host of the new 5.30–6 p.m. segment 24Hours Talkback in November 1992. This program aired until 1994 when it was canceled and John had moved on to CBC Radio One
as on air host of Questionnaire.
On October 2, 2000, as part of nationwide budget cuts and a shift of focus towards reporting of geopolitical events (war in Iraq and Afghanistan), 24Hours was replaced by a 30-minute program, Canada Now
.
, and alternate anchor Arvel Gray
. Ernie Nairn was the sports anchor. Prior to October, 1985 the late evening newscast was called News Final, and prior to that had no title, but was referred to generically as the late local news.
LateNight featured more entertainment items, including live theatre and movie reviews, leaving political coverage to the main supper-hour program.
In the budget cuts of December 1990 and the nationwide introduction of a 90-minute local newscast at 5:30pm, which on CBWT included a 1/2 hour local supper-hour program, 24Hours Talkback, the program was canceled in November 1992. 24Hours LateNight would go back on the air in 1994 following a move back to a 60-minute evening newscast and the cancellation of Talkback, continuing until nationwide budget cuts reduced local evening news coverage and cancelled local late night news in 2000.
news anchor Janet Stewart
will become the 6 p.m. news anchor at the station.
On November 30, 2006, CBC announced that they would revert to the pre-2000 early-evening news model effective February 2007: Canada Now will be cancelled, while local newscasts nationwide will once again use an hour-long format.
CBWT announced on Friday, February 2, 2007 that the full hour of local news would return on Monday, February 19, 2007, and that Murray Parker
would return as weather person. CBWT's newscast became known as CBC News: Winnipeg at Six
. In September 2009, the station's news operations were expanded again with the launch of a 90-minute newscast from 5pm to 6:30pm and a month later, a late night update following The National each weeknight.
Current affairs (news format)
Current Affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast....
program that was broadcast by CBWT
CBWT
CBWT is the CBC's television station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is the only CBC station in Manitoba, since Brandon's CKX-TV closed on October 2, 2009....
, the CBC
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
television
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...
station in Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
, Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
, Canada
Canada
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.
History
It began on October 5, 1970 (on the same day that James CrossJames Cross
James Richard Cross, CMG was a British diplomat in Canada who was kidnapped by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group during the October Crisis of October 1970....
was kidnapped by the FLQ in Quebec) and first aired between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. The original on-air hosts were Garth Dawley
Garth Dawley
Garth Dawley is most known for reading the news on CBWT's supper-hour news program 24Hours from October 5, 1970–1983.Prior to his role at 24Hours he was co-hosted the local morning show on CBW-AM in the 1960s....
(news), Murray Parker
Murray Parker (broadcaster)
Murray Parker is a Winnipeg-based broadcaster who was with CBWT for many years as weather forecaster on 24Hours, and station announcer...
(weather), Don Wittman
Don Wittman
Donald Rae Wittman was a Canadian sportscaster.Born in Herbert, Saskatchewan, Wittman attended the University of Saskatchewan and got his start in the field of broadcasting as a news reporter with CFQC radio in Saskatoon in 1955.As a sportscaster, Wittman covered many sports including athletics,...
& Bob Picken (sports), John Harvard
John Harvard
John Harvard may refer to:* John Harvard , English clergyman after whom Harvard University is named* John Harvard , journalist, politician and office holder in Manitoba, Canada...
& Gerry Haslam (interviewer). On occasion, others contributed to the program, namely Heather Hildebrandt (CBC Winnipeg public affairs dep't) and freelancers Alice Poyser and Per Holting. Bill Morgan was the Producer in the first year, and Executive Producer in the second.
Although the reason why the newscast was called 24Hours is uncertain, advertising in the 1970s contained the slogan NEWS...Something to think about every 24Hours, something that would become less relevant since the 1980s with today's media choices.
The hour would begin with 10 to 13 minutes of news presented by Garth Dawley
Garth Dawley
Garth Dawley is most known for reading the news on CBWT's supper-hour news program 24Hours from October 5, 1970–1983.Prior to his role at 24Hours he was co-hosted the local morning show on CBW-AM in the 1960s....
, the program's first newsreader till 1983, followed by a 2-minute weather update, followed by a 10-minute documentary or interview. After a commercial break, national and international news would be presented, followed by a 5-minute sportscast. A full weather forecast of 5-minute duration would take place about 30-minutes into the program. Another documentary or interview segment would fill in the rest of the time. Closer to the hour's end would be a feature such as a review of an arts event, or a news-comedy skit. Each hour would end with a short summary of the day's news.
During the summer months in earlier years, 24Hours would switch to a 30-minute format with basic news, weather, and sports to give the documentary team time to cool down and then prepare for next season's documentaries.
Before The National was moved to 10 p.m. and The Journal created in 1982, occasionally a full-hour 24Hours documentary would air at this time, in addition to the regular 60 minutes of news at 6 p.m.
Starting in the 1977-78 season it moved from the 6:30-7:30 p.m. time to a more standard supper-hour of 6:00-7:00 p.m., where John Robertson replaced John Harvard as host.
John Harvard
John Harvard
John Harvard may refer to:* John Harvard , English clergyman after whom Harvard University is named* John Harvard , journalist, politician and office holder in Manitoba, Canada...
, who was the program's first interviewer between 1970 and 1977, returned the day after the November 1981 Provincial election, and remained till 1986. He interviewed the former interviewer from the 1977-1981 period, John Robertson.
In September 1982 the chalkboard easel used for the 24Hours weather forecast regularly done by Murray Parker
Murray Parker (broadcaster)
Murray Parker is a Winnipeg-based broadcaster who was with CBWT for many years as weather forecaster on 24Hours, and station announcer...
, was replaced with an electronic Telidon
NAPLPS
NAPLPS is a graphics language for use originally with videotex and teletext services. NAPLPS was developed from the Telidon system developed in Canada, with a small number of additions from AT&T...
system. This was used for about 2 years when a regular CG
Character generator
A character generator, often abbreviated as CG, is a device or software that produces static or animated text for keying into a video stream. Modern character generators are computer-based, and can generate graphics as well as text...
system was put in place.
Also in 1982, CBWT was a pioneer within CBC television stations to use Betacam
Betacam
Betacam is family of half-inch professional videocassette products developed by Sony in 1982. In colloquial use, "Betacam" singly is often used to refer to a Betacam camcorder, a Betacam tape, a Betacam video recorder or the format itself....
ENG cameras. Prior to this time, reports were filed on 16 mm film.
In 1983, electronic slides replaced the film-type that accompanied the news anchor of the various local news programs. For example, a slide machine with a red rounded trim was used in 1982-83, while the rest of the news set is a cream colour.
In May 1984, Marv Terhoch was appointed Director of CBWT of 24Hours.
Also between these years, Kevin Evans was the interviewer for 24Hours, until the local Videon
Videon Cablesystems
Videon Cablesystems was a Cable television service in Manitoba, Alberta, and for a short period northwest Ontario, Canada. The origins of Videon date back to October 1959 when original General Manager Claude Boucher applied to the Lakehead Public Utilities Board in Port Arthur, Ontario to provide...
cable system replaced KTHI
KVLY-TV
KVLY-TV, is an NBC affiliated television station in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, serving Eastern North Dakota and Northwestern Minnesota. It broadcasts on ATSC channel 44, which redirects to former NTSC channel 11 via PSIP. In addition to its main studio in Fargo, it operates a satellite studio in...
Fargo with WDIV
WDIV-TV
WDIV-TV, virtual channel 4, is an NBC-affiliated television station based in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned by Post-Newsweek Stations and is the flagship station and home base of the group with the offices of the group located alongside WDIV's studios; the "Local" branding now...
Detroit, the latter featured Mort Crim
Mort Crim
Mort Crim is an author and former broadcast journalist. Crim was born . Crim retired from anchoring TV newscasts at WDIV-TV Detroit in 1996. He also anchored at WHAS-TV in Louisville, KYW-TV in Philadelphia and WBBM-TV in Chicago. Crim was considered to be a top candidate by former ABC News...
and his style of news and interviewing. To compete with that station, it hired former ABC correspondent Mike McCourt
Mike McCourt
Mike McCourt is a TV journalist working at Citytv outlet CKAL-TV in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.From 1987 to 1992, he co-hosted the local CBWT local news program 24Hours in Winnipeg.-External links:*...
who co-hosted the program between September 1986 and 1991.
John Bertrand, who was formerly the Winnipeg Sun
Winnipeg Sun
The Winnipeg Sun is a daily tabloid-sized newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.It is owned by Sun Media, a subsidiary of Quebecor Media, and shares many characteristics typical of Sun Media tabloids, including an emphasis on local news stories, extensive sports coverage, a Canadian conservatism...
's Editor was hired on as host of the new 5.30–6 p.m. segment 24Hours Talkback in November 1992. This program aired until 1994 when it was canceled and John had moved on to CBC Radio One
CBW (AM)
CBW is the callsign of the CBC Radio One station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The station broadcasts at AM 990, and this frequency functions as a Class A clear channel under former North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement allocations.-History:...
as on air host of Questionnaire.
On October 2, 2000, as part of nationwide budget cuts and a shift of focus towards reporting of geopolitical events (war in Iraq and Afghanistan), 24Hours was replaced by a 30-minute program, Canada Now
Canada Now
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...
.
Theme Music
The theme music used during the late 1970s and early 1980s was Gathering Crowds, which itself was released in 1974.24Hours LateNight
When Midday took 30-minutes of television time from the regions, CBWT had 30 minutes extra to spare in their budget. 24Hours LateNight was launched in late October, 1985, with anchor Anne PetrieAnne Petrie
Anne Petrie is an award-winning broadcaster and was most known as the host of Canada Live and Coast to Coast on CBC Newsworld during its early years....
, and alternate anchor Arvel Gray
Arvel Gray
Arvel Gray is a Canadian-born CBC Manitoba personality who anchored the local 30 minute television news program News at Noon until January 1985, when CBC's Midday program took its place.Arvel became 24Hours' weatherperson in the summer of 1977...
. Ernie Nairn was the sports anchor. Prior to October, 1985 the late evening newscast was called News Final, and prior to that had no title, but was referred to generically as the late local news.
LateNight featured more entertainment items, including live theatre and movie reviews, leaving political coverage to the main supper-hour program.
In the budget cuts of December 1990 and the nationwide introduction of a 90-minute local newscast at 5:30pm, which on CBWT included a 1/2 hour local supper-hour program, 24Hours Talkback, the program was canceled in November 1992. 24Hours LateNight would go back on the air in 1994 following a move back to a 60-minute evening newscast and the cancellation of Talkback, continuing until nationwide budget cuts reduced local evening news coverage and cancelled local late night news in 2000.
News history after 24Hours
On November 10, 2006 CBWT announced that CKY-TVCKY-TV
CKY-DT is a television station based in Winnipeg, Manitoba and owned by Bell Media. It is part of the CTV Television Network....
news anchor Janet Stewart
Janet Stewart
Janet Stewart is currently the news anchor at CBWT in Winnipeg, Manitoba since January 9, 2007.Prior to that, she was news anchor at CKY-TV between August 2001 and November 2006....
will become the 6 p.m. news anchor at the station.
On November 30, 2006, CBC announced that they would revert to the pre-2000 early-evening news model effective February 2007: Canada Now will be cancelled, while local newscasts nationwide will once again use an hour-long format.
CBWT announced on Friday, February 2, 2007 that the full hour of local news would return on Monday, February 19, 2007, and that Murray Parker
Murray Parker (broadcaster)
Murray Parker is a Winnipeg-based broadcaster who was with CBWT for many years as weather forecaster on 24Hours, and station announcer...
would return as weather person. CBWT's newscast became known as CBC News: Winnipeg at Six
CBC News at Six
CBC News produces a variety of local newscasts for CBC Television's owned-and-operated stations throughout Canada. On most stations, the local news operation is currently titled CBC News: [city/province name], such that the 6:00 p.m. newscast on CBLT is named CBC News: Toronto at 6...
. In September 2009, the station's news operations were expanded again with the launch of a 90-minute newscast from 5pm to 6:30pm and a month later, a late night update following The National each weeknight.