I've always found it interesting that the CBC always interrupt normal programing for any political event or election except for NHL Hockey.

Tonight will be no different. Our Prime Minister will address the Nation tonight. This is a big deal but the Leafs are playing tonight, so this will play on all CBC platforms except CBC local tv stations. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Go Leafs Go!

I have a lot of respect for anyone who puts there name forward. It's not an easy thing to do. But I disagree with this being a surprise. The media has been talking about it for over 6 months.  That's lots of time to get people lined up.
I will be watching to see where the party's focus there energy and budgets. Will they be trying to get on the morning shows on tv and radio or will they focus on podcasts. Will the party leaders give any time to the local tv station in Thunder Bay or just stick with the Toronto /Ottawa stations.
I will also be following how much money CTV, Global, and City put into this. If any of the party leaders goes to a small community 6 or 8 hour drive from Toronto for a big announcement will any Toronto reports follow.
Lots of things to follow that are not political in this election.

I really don't agree with this direction CBC is going with local tv news. I do like the idea of  Simulcasting the streaming platform or follow what Global is doing by pre-taping local news from Toronto, but making it look like it's still coming from Windsor.
I also don't understand why CBC has not followed Corus or Bell and
Simulcast tv news on Radio. I know this does not work well but if you are looking at ways to reduce your budget. You could air the whole morning radio show on tv instead of just one hour. Maybe even air some of the local afternoon radio show on tv  ( maybe the 5pm hour). Also air The National on radio followed by the local tv news.

That uses up a lot of programing hours on both tv and radio.
Again I know this is not the best option for tv or radio, but might save enough money to keep local news live.

For a big event like this Citytv is not where I would go first. My first choice is CTV or CBC for longer coverage. Global as my 3nd choice. On the Radio it's 680 news in Toronto or CBC Radio 1. CFRB or AM640 is not even on my radar.
For streaming, I did watch CTV, and found the coverage fair.
Over on the podcasts. I will be listening to The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge, Toronto Mike and others who are giving retired news people a voice. It ready is nice to hear from people who at one time would have been the voice of reason on a day like today.

Does anyone know how TVO is doing with its viewer supported membership. I'm wondering if this is still an option for CBC. The money raised would be an additional source of revenue. They could then decrease the amount of government funding or tv broadcast hours of paid advertising.
But I'm wondering how much money would be left after you set up a whole new department to collect and administer this idea.

I've always found it interesting with American programing in Canada. How much money Canadian media has to spend and what type of ratings the program gets usually determines what station the program ends up on. If a program shows up on CHCH or Yestv tells me the show is cheap to buy and the ratings might be great for CHCH but not for CTV. If a program shows up on CTV that tells me the Canadian rights cost a lot more and the national ratings are pretty good.
As for 60 minutes. I would not be surprised if this program ends up on CHCH at some point or Global keeps it as part of the late night programing.

This is a little bit off topic, but does anyone know how long TSN gets to keep the rights to the Original Hockey Night in Canada theme music. I can't remember all the details on how CBC lost the rights but all this time later Saturday Night has not been the same.

Who started what for me is very subjective. Chum started CP24 using the newsroom from City, but Chum started a lot of channels like this.
When Bell was able to buy everything at 299 Queen except City, Rogers was required to move CityNews, while everything else stayed. In fact Bell moved other programing and stations down to this site.
With all of the staff cuts I'm not sure if there are many still around who helped start CP24.

First, I was part of this group some time ago, left for a little bit but still followed and enjoyed most of the discussions. I'm not from the media industry but do enjoy following it.
Today I get most of my Canadian content from YouTube and Podcasts. I almost never turn on the radio or a TV station.
Over the Newyear from our hotel room I had a chance to watch an actual TV channel.
I was not impressed with CNN ( growing up they were a news channel ). Having what I think was one of there top on air people getting drunk gave me a reason to change the channel. I did get to watch CBC and was impressed with there Canada Live program. ( I only saw it from Winnipeg to Vancouver ). It looked like they used the concept of Cross Country Check-up and brought it to tv. Just talking to everyday people. For me this worked well.
On Newyears day on CP24 in the morning ( very big news event down south) I found paid programing for something the belonged before Christmas, not on Jan 1, 2025.
On Jan 2nd I watched the last half hour of CTV Your Morning. My only take away besides the lack of news stories and non bell ads. I only remember 1 ad for people over 50 with no life insurance.  No ads from Tim's,  Canadian Tire, The Bay, GM, Ford, Coke or Pepsi ( I'm sure others can add to the list )
Is anyone under 50 watching this show, and when will they move back to the Old Canada AM studio or will they shut down with the CTV news channel taking over that time slot.
Thanks for giving me a chance to share my thoughts with what I saw over the newyear.