This goes back to Ginella Massa days on Canada Tonight.  Here in Northeastern Ontario, the Eastlink guide says something about "New, HD, Canada Tonight was a Canadian television newscast which aired on stations owned by Western International Communications from 1993 to 2001. It was produced out of the studio of CHAN-TV in Burnaby, British Columbia." It goes on about two versions of the newscast, blah, blah blah. 

Watching CBC News Network right now (4:05pm Eastern) and it says on my screen that it is 9:05pm in Vancouver.
That's quite a time change.

Oh, we'll notice.  The overall productions are vastly different, and the Apple TV+ presentation isn't the better of the two.

From the time it first went on the air until just a couple years ago, CJWL in Ottawa was in a quaint, little old house on York St. in the Byward Market.

Patterson says when the announcement of Wiarton Willie's death was repeated all day on the news, it was hilarious, "Kind of like telling kids on air about Santa."
What about Santa? Huh?  This Santa denying has to stop! 

Really? I tried streaming it.  I don't find it funny at all.  Marty Short's 15 minutes were up many years ago.
But as my francophone ancestors often said, a chacun son gout.

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Agreed on The Shepherd, but let's not overlook Fireside Al's reading of The Gift of the Magi. His readings of both is the ultimate in "theatre of the mind".  You feel like you're right in the story.
Alan Maitland died in 1999.  

I often wonder how winter songs like Jingle Bells and Frosty the Snowman became Christmas songs.  South of the equator, they wouldn't work at all.
On the other hand, I would not want to be programming music for an all-Christmas radio station.

In my car in Timmins today, I scanned the AM dial.  Nothing local showed up, although 590 and 1050 were surprisingly clear.  This was at about 3:30pm.
 

It worked on my phone, but I was watching Game Show Network at the time, and the alert did not interrupt Deal or No Deal.
My name is Bob, and I'm a game show addict.

Oh, great.  I'm on Eastlink up here in God's Country.  History is one of the channels that got dumped a few months ago, because of a fee dispute.
If anyone hears of a free link where I can catch this show, please do a brother a solid... 

From Milkman: No great detail yet, but layoffs have apparently happened at 1310News and its FM rebroadcaster.  The all-news/talk format is being abandoned.
Bring on A.I.

I hate to break it to you, but the larger the city, the more chance you're always on camera, at or away from work (except, maybe, in the washroom, MAYBE).  Stop being so paranoid and/or self-conscious.  And remember: No one can honestly say they've never picked their nose at work. 
 

I keep telling you guys you should move up to God's country.  My Eastlink digital cable package includes KTLA.  Wow! An earthquake and flooding simutaneously.  That must be a media adrenaline rush.
I've been sticking to CBC News Network, for its wall-to-wall coverage of Yellowknife and Kelowna.  The full two hours of Cross Country Checkup was on TV yesterday, and on Friday and last night, CBCNN stuck with it until 10pm, preempting the 9pm version of The National.