CTV National News
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CTV National News is CTV
's flagship newscast, which airs at 11:00 p.m. local time on the CTV stations across Canada
, and live at 10:00pm ET, with repeats hourly up until 2 a.m. ET on CTV News Channel, CTV's 24-hour
cable news television channel, and the previous day's can be seen on the Internet. The current anchors are Lisa LaFlamme
on weekdays, and Sandie Rinaldo
on weekends. The program is also broadcast in High-Definition
.
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 has become the name of both the national and local news on CTV O&O stations, although the banner currently continues to bear the title CTV News.
Lisa LaFlamme
is currently the program's main weekday anchor, after taking over for Lloyd Robertson
during the second half of 2011, following Robertson's retirement. Other substitute anchors include Rinaldo (for weekday broadcasts), Beverly Thomson
, Ken Shaw
, Dan Matheson
, Scott Laurie
and Omar Sachedina
.
Originally running only 20 minutes, the newscast was expanded to a full half-hour in the 1980s.
Various promotional ads have claimed it to be "Canada's #1 Newscast" (consistent with CTV's boasts of itself as being "Canada's #1 Network"); however in recent months, it has faced competition with Global Television Network
's Global National
and CBC News
' The National in the ratings even though the three newscasts air at different times (Global National at 5:30 p.m., The National at 10:00 p.m., and CTV National News at 11:00 p.m.). CTV's claim to first place is based on a seven-day comparison of the newscasts' original broadcast-network airings.
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 in fact 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.)
in Ottawa
. It was originally presented by three anchors: Charles Lynch
, Peter Stursberg
and Peter Jennings
.
The anchor team changed a number of times over the first few years of broadcast, with Jennings as the sole constant. Other co-anchors included Baden Langton
and Ab Douglas
. Larry Henderson
, the former host of The National, was the show'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 moved its newscast to 10:30, scheduling a variety show
, Network
, for 10:55 p.m. The experiment only lasted a single season.
Jennings left for ABC News
in 1964, and Harvey Kirck
(Jennings' co-anchor up to that point) became the newscast's sole anchor.
In 1976, CTV National News returned to the co-anchor format, hiring Lloyd Robertson as co-anchor with Kirck; Robertson had previously served as anchor of The National. When Kirck retired in 1984, Robertson became sole anchor of the program.
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 before a network shakeup resulted in his moving to NBC
.
With a total of 40 years on two networks, Robertson is one of the longest-serving, currently active news anchors on English-language North American television (network or local), second behind Dave Ward
, who's been an anchor at KTRK
in Houston, Texas
since 1967. On October 18, 2006, Robertson celebrated his 30th year as a CTV National News anchor. (Jim Lehrer
has presented The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
since its inception in 1975, beating Robertson by almost a year, but has only presented as a sole-anchor of the programme since 1995.)
On July 8, 2010, Robertson announced at the end of the broadcast that he has chosen his 35th anniversary of holding the anchor position to formally retire, on September 1, 2011. The following day, CTV announced LaFlamme's selection as Robertson's successor. As of September second, 2011, CTV National News has been broadcasted with LaFlamme as the head anchor.
CTV television network
CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...
's flagship newscast, which airs at 11:00 p.m. local time on the CTV stations across Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, and live at 10:00pm ET, with repeats hourly up until 2 a.m. ET on CTV News Channel, CTV's 24-hour
24-hour news cycle
The 24-hour news cycle arrived with the advent of television channels dedicated to news, and brought about a much faster pace of news production with increased demand for stories that can be presented as news, as opposed to the day-by-day pace of the news cycle of printed daily newspapers...
cable news television channel, and the previous day's can be seen on the Internet. The current anchors are Lisa LaFlamme
Lisa LaFlamme
Lisa LaFlamme is a Canadian television journalist, and currently the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV National News....
on weekdays, and Sandie Rinaldo
Sandie Rinaldo
Sandie Rinaldo is a Canadian television journalist and anchor for CTV News.-Youth and education:...
on weekends. The program is also broadcast in High-Definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
.
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 has become the name of both the national and local news on CTV O&O stations, although the banner currently continues to bear the title CTV News.
Lisa LaFlamme
Lisa LaFlamme
Lisa LaFlamme is a Canadian television journalist, and currently the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV National News....
is currently the program's main weekday anchor, after taking over for Lloyd Robertson
Lloyd Robertson
Lloyd Robertson, OC is the currently the co-host of CTV's weekly magazine series, W5. Robertson previously served as the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV's national evening newscast, CTV News with Lloyd Robertson, until September, 2011, when he retired from the CTV National News...
during the second half of 2011, following Robertson's retirement. Other substitute anchors include Rinaldo (for weekday broadcasts), Beverly Thomson
Beverly Thomson
Beverly Thomson is a Canadian journalist and co-host of Canada AM, CTV's national morning show. In 2006, she received the Gemini Humanitarian Award....
, Ken Shaw
Ken Shaw
Ken Shaw, O.Ont is a Canadian news anchor for CTV Toronto. He is the co-anchor for CTV News at 6:00 p.m since April 2001, alongside Christine Bentley....
, Dan Matheson
Dan Matheson
Dan Matheson is a Canadian journalist and news anchor currently presenting the news in the primetime hours on CTV News Channel, since September 2001.-Early life and career:...
, Scott Laurie
Scott Laurie
Scott Laurie is a Canadian news reporter and news anchor for CTV News Channel and CTV News since May 2000. He appears on CTV News Channel during the weekend primetime hours from 8 p.m. to midnight....
and Omar Sachedina
Omar Sachedina
Omar Sachedina is a Canadian television journalist, currently a news anchor and reporter for the CTV Television Network.Sachedina was born and raised in Vancouver in an Ismaili Muslim household. His family immigrated from Uganda, tracing their roots to India. He speaks Kutchi, Gujarati and French...
.
Originally running only 20 minutes, the newscast was expanded to a full half-hour in the 1980s.
Various promotional ads have claimed it to be "Canada's #1 Newscast" (consistent with CTV's boasts of itself as being "Canada's #1 Network"); however in recent months, it has faced competition with Global Television Network
Global Television Network
Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...
's Global National
Global National
Global National is the national newscast of Canada's Global Television Network. Dawna Friesen anchors the program's weekday edition from the Global BC studios; Robin Gill currently anchors the weekend edition...
and CBC News
CBC News
CBC News is the department within the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on CBC television, radio and online services...
' The National in the ratings even though the three newscasts air at different times (Global National at 5:30 p.m., The National at 10:00 p.m., and CTV National News at 11:00 p.m.). CTV's claim to first place is based on a seven-day comparison of the newscasts' original broadcast-network airings.
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 in fact 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.)
Anchors
The program was launched as CTV World News in 1961 from the studios of CJOHCJOH-TV
CJOH-DT is a television station serving Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and the surrounding region. Owned by Bell Media, it is part of the CTV Television Network....
in Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
. It was originally presented by three anchors: Charles Lynch
Charles Lynch (journalist)
Charles Burchill Lynch, was a Canadian journalist and author.- Biography :Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Canadian parents, he moved with his family to Saint John, New Brunswick when he was two weeks old...
, Peter Stursberg
Peter Stursberg
Peter Stursberg, CM is a Canadian writer and broadcaster.Born in Chefoo, China, he has spent his career as a foreign correspondent, newspaper editor, television newscaster and commentator, and author...
and Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer...
.
The anchor team changed a number of times over the first few years of broadcast, with Jennings as the sole constant. Other co-anchors included Baden Langton
Baden Langton
Baden Langton was one of several early co-anchors of CTV National News, and worked with anchor Peter Jennings.-External links:*...
and Ab Douglas
Ab Douglas
Ab Douglas Driediger is a former Canadian television news anchor. He co-anchored the CTV National News with Peter Jennings for two years...
. Larry Henderson
Larry Henderson
Larry Henderson was the first regular newsreader on the CBC Television's The National News, later rebranded as The National, from 1954 to 1959. He was born in Montreal....
, the former host of The National, was the show's international affairs analyst and weekend anchor for several years.
In the 1962-63 season, struggling to compete with CBC
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...
's more established CBC National News, CTV moved its newscast to 10:30, scheduling a variety show
Variety show
A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and normally introduced by a compère or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling...
, Network
Network (TV series)
Network is a Canadian variety television series which aired on CTV for one season during the 1962-63 television season. The show was co-hosted by Bill Brady and Denyse Ange. Live and taped segments were aired from either the studio or elsewhere in Canada....
, for 10:55 p.m. The experiment only lasted a single season.
Jennings left for ABC News
ABC News
ABC News is the news gathering and broadcasting division of American broadcast television network ABC, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
in 1964, and Harvey Kirck
Harvey Kirck
Harvey Kirck was a Canadian news anchor. Born in Northern Ontario, Kirck moved with his family to Toronto in 1943.-Radio Days:His career began in radio at Sault Ste...
(Jennings' co-anchor up to that point) became the newscast's sole anchor.
In 1976, CTV National News returned to the co-anchor format, hiring Lloyd Robertson as co-anchor with Kirck; Robertson had previously served as anchor of The National. When Kirck retired in 1984, Robertson became sole anchor of the program.
For a time in the late 1970s and again in the early 1990s Keith Morrison
Keith Morrison
Keith Morrison is a Canadian, veteran broadcast journalist. Since 1995, he has been a correspondent for Dateline NBC.-Career:...
acted as weekend and substitute anchor and was considered Robertson's likely successor before a network shakeup resulted in his moving to NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
.
With a total of 40 years on two networks, Robertson is one of the longest-serving, currently active news anchors on English-language North American television (network or local), second behind Dave Ward
Dave Ward (reporter)
Davíd Henry Ward is most known for his career of over 40 years as anchor of the weekday 6:00 pm and 10:00 pm newscasts on KTRK-TV's Eyewitness News in Houston, Texas...
, who's been an anchor at KTRK
KTRK-TV
KTRK-TV, channel 13, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Houston, Texas...
in Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas
Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
since 1967. On October 18, 2006, Robertson celebrated his 30th year as a CTV National News anchor. (Jim Lehrer
Jim Lehrer
James Charles "Jim" Lehrer is an American journalist and the executive editor and former news anchor for PBS NewsHour on PBS, known for his role as a frequent debate moderator during elections...
has presented The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
PBS NewsHour is an evening television news program broadcast weeknights on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. The show is produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, a company co-owned by former anchors Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil, and Liberty Media, which owns a 65% stake in the...
since its inception in 1975, beating Robertson by almost a year, but has only presented as a sole-anchor of the programme since 1995.)
On July 8, 2010, Robertson announced at the end of the broadcast that he has chosen his 35th anniversary of holding the anchor position to formally retire, on September 1, 2011. The following day, CTV announced LaFlamme's selection as Robertson's successor. As of September second, 2011, CTV National News has been broadcasted with LaFlamme as the head anchor.
Anchors
- Charles LynchCharles Lynch (journalist)Charles Burchill Lynch, was a Canadian journalist and author.- Biography :Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Canadian parents, he moved with his family to Saint John, New Brunswick when he was two weeks old...
(1961) (co-anchor) - Peter StursbergPeter StursbergPeter Stursberg, CM is a Canadian writer and broadcaster.Born in Chefoo, China, he has spent his career as a foreign correspondent, newspaper editor, television newscaster and commentator, and author...
(1961) (co-anchor) - Baden LangtonBaden LangtonBaden Langton was one of several early co-anchors of CTV National News, and worked with anchor Peter Jennings.-External links:*...
(1962-1964) (co-anchor) - Ab DouglasAb DouglasAb Douglas Driediger is a former Canadian television news anchor. He co-anchored the CTV National News with Peter Jennings for two years...
(1962-1964) (co-anchor) - Peter JenningsPeter JenningsPeter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM was a Canadian American journalist and news anchor. He was the sole anchor of ABC's World News Tonight from 1983 until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer...
(1961-1964) (co-anchor) - Harvey KirckHarvey KirckHarvey Kirck was a Canadian news anchor. Born in Northern Ontario, Kirck moved with his family to Toronto in 1943.-Radio Days:His career began in radio at Sault Ste...
(1963-1984) (chief anchor 1964-1984) - Lloyd RobertsonLloyd RobertsonLloyd Robertson, OC is the currently the co-host of CTV's weekly magazine series, W5. Robertson previously served as the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV's national evening newscast, CTV News with Lloyd Robertson, until September, 2011, when he retired from the CTV National News...
(1976-2011) (chief anchor 1984-2011) - Lisa LaFlammeLisa LaFlammeLisa LaFlamme is a Canadian television journalist, and currently the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV National News....
(2011–present)