If Global really wanted to, they can revert to airing Global National at 5:30 ET, that's when the Atlantic edition of Global National goes out at 6:30 AT.

Interesting that CTV is jumping into this timeslot. In the west, Global National airs at 5:30 PM local, and is the #1 national news in Alberta and BC. 

Also, with this change, I wonder if that re-run of Global National at 11:30 PM is going to morph into a live national newscast. 

RadioAaron wrote:

Markets outside of Toronto have (had?) been running a local 5pm newscast, so presumably this is saving some money.

This is a smart move by CTV.  Good opportunity to promote the 11 newscast too.  I wonder if the local cast will continue at five and run for the half hour. CTV Kitchener had their two hour casts filled with local ads.

CTV Kitchener announced the change during their 6PM newscast. Said the local 5PM news would continue as a half hour program. I wonder how long before Sandie Rinaldo retires. She is in her early mid 70s. 

FYI. Global national also goes out over Global Kingston and Peterborough at 5:30

I know a new weekend replacement for Sandi Rinaldo has not been announced but I would like to add my overpriced two cents worth.  I saw Heather Butts filling in last weekend or the weekend before and she was very good.  I got to know her while she was working in Barrie and followed her out east and then reporting for CTV.   I know she is quite young and has only been with the network for  short time but I have been very impressed.  She gets my vote.   In fact I would like to see her on the Mon.-Fri. anchor desk.  She is that good.

Say goodbye to the CP24 simulcast. Broadcast Dialogue confirms Zuraidah Alman will be doing a new 5-5:30 PM local newscast on CFTO, to air in advance of the new early national show. She'll also retain her 11:30 PM anchor duties. 

The other question this raises is: since CP24 simulcasts CTV News at 6 with its over-the-air sister, will they also take both of these shows?

That's interesting to know. And it's probably better than two hours of simulcasting, although it does seem a bit of a waste to have the same station effectively doing two different local newscasts at the same time.

A long time ago, a CP24 employee told me that the main reason CP24 takes the CTV Toronto News at 6 is so that their crews can get an hour off for lunch. Otherwise those on air and behind the scenes are stuck without a break.  

I watched all of yesterday and most of today's newscast.  They have different theme music and use the CTV news set but from a different angle with Sandie at the end of the desk.

She is standing for the first segment and the last story with a large video screen behind her. Also interesting that there are a lot more people sitting behind her in the newsroom than what you see at 11pm.

So far it is alright, the whole package from what I have observed is fairly laid back. It will be interesting to see how they handle a big breaking news event, especially international stories. 

I actually like it better with the half hour of local news, CTV National and then the full hour of local at 6pm.  

RadioActive wrote:

I have to admit I'm a bit curious about this. The show must have an east coast feed, which means it's done out of Toronto at 4:30 for the Maritimes, where it's an hour later.

If it's shown across the country, do they have to do an updated version for the west coast stations? Given the ongoing fragile state of the world, a lot can change in the three hours between 5:30 PM Eastern and 5:30 PM Pacific. 

Do they do a separate feed for them or do viewers there see three-hour old news that could conceivably be dated by then?

Monday's and Tuesday's shows can be see at link below (click on CTV News at 5:30  on left hand side):

https://www.ctvnews.ca/video#1.6630417
 

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RadioActive wrote:

I have to admit I'm a bit curious about this. The show must have an east coast feed, which means it's done out of Toronto at 4:30 for the Maritimes, where it's an hour later.

If it's shown across the country, do they have to do an updated version for the west coast stations? Given the ongoing fragile state of the world, a lot can change in the three hours between 5:30 PM Eastern and 5:30 PM Pacific. 

Do they do a separate feed for them or do viewers there see three-hour old news that could conceivably be dated by then?

I don’t see why they wouldn’t update the 5:30 show in each time zone if something’s happening. They do it for the 11 PM show. Global National also updates their show for western viewers, so it would be a bad look if CTV didn’t do it.

RadioActive wrote:

I just noticed CTV's local Toronto news on the weekend is now doing an "international" block, with the local anchors throwing to a sort of mini-CTV National News anchored by Heather Butts. She handles international and cross-Canada stories, while Andria Case and Rahmi Ladhani do mostly local headlines.

She throws back to "your local news," which means it's airing across the country. What surprised me is how long it was - more than 10 minutes.

First time I've seen this on the weekend (Global has been doing something similar on their noon show for a while) and I'm guessing this is here to stay as part of their expansion of the national package. 

Same with CTV London's 6PM newscast. It's a good thing that they are tweeking a bit of CTV's newscasts I hope they do this again.

RadioActive wrote:

I just noticed CTV's local Toronto news on the weekend is now doing an "international" block, with the local anchors throwing to a sort of mini-CTV National News anchored by Heather Butts. She handles international and cross-Canada stories, while Andria Case and Rahmi Ladhani do mostly local headlines.

She throws back to "your local news," which means it's airing across the country. What surprised me is how long it was - more than 10 minutes.

First time I've seen this on the weekend (Global has been doing something similar on their noon show for a while) and I'm guessing this is here to stay as part of their expansion of the national package. 

This is what I was wondering when the initial press release came out...

ED1 wrote:

"The network says “CTV National News” is also providing segments to the early evening local newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays."

So does that mean the national newsroom will be producing national/world news segments for the local stations to air in their shows?