Heather Hiscox is one of Canada’s best news broadcasters.

She co-hosted mornings on CJBK in London with Steve Garrison back around 1990, and then she briefly worked on-air at CFPL-TV. I think she hosted a weekly show there.

On CBC News Network I remember she was on-air when the news of Jack Layton’s passing broke, and Peter Mansbridge entered the studio live to break that news.

RadioActive wrote:

I remember this differently. The Bernardo episode (I think it was Inside Edition) was shown on Buffalo's Channel 2, but cable companies were obligated to black out that one show on their systems. Any U.S. station carrying the show got the same treatment here. 

Fortunately, we still had an antenna at that time (still do) and we watched it, not only out of curiosity but as a middle finger to the courts and censors, who tried to keep the public from finding out what was going on. Another reason to keep OTA TV!

I’ve read there were Canadians who travelled to Buffalo to buy copies of the Buffalo News to bring back across the border. The Buffalo News reported on the Bernardo trial.

I remember that trial was taking place at the same time as the infamous OJ Simpson trial, and many Canadians lamented in the summer of 1995 how much easier it was to follow the Simpson trial than it was the Bernardo trial.

mace wrote:

May 14, 1948 saw the arrival of the first television station available to Southern Ontario viewers. At least the wealthy ones.  In January 1949 Eaton's was selling GE sets with a 10" screen and 12" speaker for $791 PLUS in the fine print, another $100-$150 depending on location for installation of the outdoor antenna. For its first seven months of existence, ch 4 was an NBC affilliate. In January 1949, it became a primary CBS affilliate, while carrying some NBC and ABC programming. When WGR ch 2 signed on in 1954, ch 4 became an exclusive CBS affiliate. Although today you would never know it. The CBS eye never appears on any of WIVB's station logo's or ID's.

First in the GTA, but not quite the first in Southern Ontario - WWJ in Detroit (now WDIV) signed on March 4, 1947 and WEWS in Cleveland signed on December 17 of that year.

These were the only television stations in Stingray’s portfolio, so they’ve exited the TV business.

This makes me wonder about the health of other small market television stations. It can’t be easy these days.

I bought a new(ish) iPhone in January and it came with 3 months free of Apple TV, which I could redeem whenever I wanted. I redeemed the offer the last time the Jays were on Apple TV, so I saw that game for free (legally) and will be able to see tonight’s game as well.

RadioActive wrote:

The Star is reporting that there will be no post-debate scrums after this is over. Shame on the Debate Commission for all their decisions on this mess. 

CTV is reporting that this resulted from Ezra Levant getting into a shouting match with another journalist backstage.

RadioActive wrote:

pinto wrote:

Fanshawe is still going.. one of the few left.

Maybe not. 

Fanshawe College suspends some Broadcasting, Journalism offerings

I wonder what this will mean for CIXX-FM. When I lived in London that was a popular station among younger listeners - a rare feat for a college station.

RadioActive wrote:

A few years ago, I wrote the CRTC about this very thing, curious what the rules were. It won't surprise anyone that they never answered me. But I appreciate the update here. 

I wrote them once about 20 years ago out of curiosity on this topic and they referred me to Industry Canada. When I wrote Industry Canada they responded that although the rule existed it was not an operational priority for them to enforce it.

paterson1 wrote:

CHFD Thunder Bay was a CTV affiliate from 1972-2010.  In 2010 after a dispute with CTV over programming agreements, they flipped to Global.

CKPR Thunder Bay (formerly CFPA TV and CFCJ) was a CBC affiliate from 1954 to 2014.  They disaffiliated after CBC put in a rebroadcaster in the area.  CKPR became an affiliate of CTV. 

CBC, CTV and Global don't really have many affiliated stations anymore with private broadcasters.  Most stations are owned by the networks.
 
CBC- 14 Owned & Operated broadcast stations
CTV- 22 O&O
Global- 15 O&O
City TV- 7 O&O 
CTV 2- 7 O&O

With the exception of CBC all above have at least a few affiliated stations in conjunction with private independent broadcasters.

 

Another one in Ontario was in 1988 when CFPL and CKNX Wingham disaffiliated from the CBC and CBC put in the CBLN transmitters covering London, Wingham, and other parts of Southwestern Ontario. CFPL/CKNX went independent, but it was a disaster and they ended up having to sell the stations to Baton Broadcasting only 3 1/2 years later. They disaffiliated at a time CBC still had a strong primetime lineup, and it coincided with the launch of YTV, The Weather Network and various other specialty channels, as well as the expansion of CITY’s signal into the region. It seemed as though they wanted to replicate the success of independents CHCH or 2&7 Calgary, but in a market that was too small to support an independent (especially for CKNX).

I also have wondered what CBC intended for CBLN when it first launched. It had separate “CBLN in Southwestern Ontario” IDs, aired separate ads from CBLT, but rebroadcast CBC Toronto news. It seems as though they may have had bigger plans for the region that never materialized.

andysradio wrote:

Oh there are, all CTV. In Ontario: Sault Ste. Marie, Timmins, Kapuskasing, Pembroke and Sudbury - this one at least should be converted to digital being the parent station in Northern Ontario but that would mean a channel change. That would also then mean a new antenna.
In the Maritimes CTV still has at least two: Florenceville NB and Canning NS

CHBX-TV in Sault Ste. Marie is on Channel 2, which makes it favourable for DXing. I wonder how much it gets picked up by DXers, especially considering a lot of other stations that were on Channel 2 in analog have moved to other physical frequencies (while keeping PSIP channel 2).

RadioActive wrote:

Not only will there be two news anchors and a new high tech set, but they'll even have a nightly visit from a weatherman standing in a virtual reality background - something you rarely see on a nightly network newscast unless there's a big storm in the country. And even then, it's only a short segment.

It appears this will be a regular feature, more like a morning show than a nightly newscast. 

And that's just the start. 

"While nightly newscasts have historically been structured as a series of packaged segments presented by a lead anchor at the desk, CBS Evening News...will put less weight on the talent in the studio and more emphasis on the stories that [anchors John] Dickerson and [Maurice] DuBois explore in live time with correspondents around the world.

 "John and I will debrief our correspondents each night," DuBois, 59, explains. "You’ll get context and insight. It will feel like people you know describing incredible things that they just witnessed. I’m excited to give our viewers nuggets of info that they won’t get anywhere else."

CBS Evening News Returns to N.Y.C. with a Twist: Inside the Making of a New, Dual-Anchor Broadcast

Weather on a network evening newscast is unusual but not unprecedented; I remember CBC had a weather segment on The National for a few years. Claire Martin would do a brief national weather segment at the end of the hour, I think this started in 2006 and went on for 8-10 years.

I’ve never seen this on CTV National News or Global National.

mic'em wrote:

As long as CBC TV is OTA, it has merit for the remote areas it serves. But is the expense worth it for the small numbers involved ? Or is there any area where it even is OTA at this point ? I only watch Son of a Critch, and watched the first episode of St. Pierre . I have my PVR set for the second episode. But, I don't expect it will survive depending on what the next election results are. 

They are only OTA in a handful of select cities nowadays and only cover rural areas close to those cities. They’re not even in London or Sudbury anymore.

haydenmatthews14 wrote:

I wonder if the FM/AM towers might be affected by the wildfires. Also sporting events have been postponed such as the Calgary Flames vs the LA Kings in the NHL are affected and some NBA games are affected as well like the LA Lakers and the Clippers. Also I wonder what will happen to the tapings of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy since this is Ryan Seacrest’s new season of hosting the iconic game show. Also since the Sony Pictures studios are in Burbank close to where the fires are happening. Same thing with The Price is Right/ Let’s Make A Deal since they moved to the new Haven Studios in Glendale which is in the LA area.

Jeopardy and Wheel are taped in Culver City, which is some distance from the fires but are not that far from Santa Monica.

I was actually on the 401 in the London area yesterday and thought of this thread; I saw a plate that included CKNW. Also saw one with CFFB, which is the CBC station in Iqaluit, and CJMX, which is Kiss 105.3 in Sudbury.

Shorty Wave wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

There will be news on New Year's Eve - but not on all the locals. Both CBC and City TV have special NYE shows. In City's case, it's the annual Dick Clark show from Times Square (and ABC.) Long gone are the days when the station would take over Nathan Phillips Square for a huge and well watched local show. The Clark special runs until after 2:30 AM.

 
Rogers got rid of the Citytv NYE show shortly after they took over the channel, they really tried to erase all of that stations history, and did so. An old friend of mine asked me before Christmas if Citytv was still “a thing”, I wasn’t sure how to answer! Yeah, I guess it’s still “a thing”, of sorts.

I remember them still doing it in 2008, the first year after Rogers took over. The following year was during the Great Recession, when stations left, right and centre were cutting all they could.