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SOWNY » Big Bell Bloodbath Hits Properties In Toronto - 210 Positions Cut » February 14, 2021 9:48 pm

TOdude
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To be fair, Saron probably never expected to be doing the weather... until the Bell Media cuts came along. While it's being mentioned, there were so many issues with Sunday's CFTO 6 p.m. show... wrong supers, the old font being used for the city name on the screen behind the anchors... and at one point, the screen behind Pauline and Rahim went black. 

I've never understood why CTV News went with a different font for their city names instead of a complete top-down redesign. Maybe it's my OCD talking, but it's been at least a year and a bit and they still use a mix of the old and new fonts. 

SOWNY » Big Bell Bloodbath Hits Properties In Toronto - 210 Positions Cut » February 7, 2021 6:52 pm

TOdude
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I haven't seen this reported elsewhere, but I believe CTV Windsor's local 6 p.m. newscast on the weekend has been axed as well. Last night, they aired a regional show at 6 p.m. on CTV London and CTV Windsor similar to what they've been doing for the weekend 11 p.m. newscasts for years.

SOWNY » Changes At Global Out West. Does This Make Anyone Uneasy? » February 5, 2021 12:10 pm

TOdude
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The concern I have with these newscasts is the lineup for the show is probably determined well in advance because they have to pretape it before it airs so the news isn't up to date and god forbid if breaking news was to happen, then what? 

If you watch Global Montreal's News at Noon, you're in for a real treat. The local anchor in Montreal does the news for the first few minutes, then hands it off to Farah in Toronto and they continue on with Global Toronto's News at Noon broadcast. I suspect the handoff is pretaped and that's why Toronto viewers also see Montreal weather.

Global Saskatoon's weekday evening shows have been done from Regina for a few years now, and I have no doubt this will not be the end of their MMC experiment. Perhaps at some point, we should expect most of their small-market station newscasts to be done out of Toronto.

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