They have a year to prepare. If everything goes ahead as planned, I can't wait to see how they deal with it. It's a real mess either way. 

So,  Jays games will start at 5pm instead of 4pm. That's one advantage I can see. 

The private networks will almost certainly choose to follow whatever the Seattle stations are airing..... halfway through the season, your primetime show will start at a different time. 6 o'clock news will stay the same, and primetime will either start at 7 or 8. Late news will be at 10 and repeated at 11. Easy....

CBC will do it's own thing and accommodate the new times

This will also help networks on federal election night, and make BC'ers feel like their vote was counted

RadioAaron wrote:

The Jays' games are already all in DST.

Jays' games next year that start at 7pm in Toronto, will start at 5pm in Vancouver, not 4pm as they will in 2026. 

Alberta and the Maritimes simsub stations 1 hour behind them (Seattle/Spokane and Boston respectively). Usually CTV/Global in Alberta/Maritimes puts whatever is normally on at 10 PM at 8 PM local time, and simsub 9-11 PM; news remains at 11 PM. The BC stations will probably do the same when they are not in sync with Seattle.

For a B.C. perspective, here's a Vancouver Sun article on the time change. The comments are interesting.

https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-daylight-time-permanent

I saw one academic comment that the change in BC should have been permanent Standard Time and not Daylight Time.  With Daylight Savings Time, on the shortest day, the sunrise won't be until 9:15am with sunset after 4pm.  He claimed for the human body it is more important to get the extra hour of daylight in the morning and not in the afternoon.  Also with Daylight Time children will be going to school in the dark for part of the year. In some cases even first classes will be when it is still dark outside, especially on overcast days.  Likely that much harder to get the kids engaged when it still feels like nightime. 

In regards to simsub, I don't really see a huge issue.  Even in Southern Ontario CTV hasn't been running some of the biggest current shows in simulcast.  Tracker and occasionally High Potential have not been scheduled at the same time as the US network.  On Wednesday evening this week Scrubs, The Masked Singer and Fear Factor are all running at different times or days than the US networks.   
 

cash wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

The Jays' games are already all in DST.

Jays' games next year that start at 7pm in Toronto, will start at 5pm in Vancouver, not 4pm as they will in 2026. 

 
They will not.  As RadioAaron said, both Ontario and BC will be on daylight time from March to November, so the three-hour difference will still be in play.  It’s only from November to March when it will be two hours between Ontario and BC.

The Weed wrote:

I think we should split the difference and just move the clock ahead a half hour this weekend and leave it there and just call it Eastern Time.

YES.

If the problem is the actual back-and-forth, this is the solution.

Many years ago, I was working the federal election coverage in the control room, doing results on air. I think it was the John Turner vote, but I can't quite remember. What I DO recall is that it was one of those rare votes where it all came down to the results on the west coast. 

That meant we not only had to wait until 11 PM Eastern time (the polls closed at 8 PM B.C. time) but we then had to wait - and wait and wait - for the votes to be counted. On and on and on the coverage went, with our anchor desperately ad libbing about anything and everything as we waited to find out who the next Prime Minister would be. 

It took at least another two or three hours, near 2 AM in the eastern time zone, for us to finally learn the winner. By then some of us, including me, had been there since about 2 that afternoon. 

I realize that kind of scenario is rare, but it happened. And shaving an hour off of that interminable wait would have been very welcome that night - and into the morning.  Worse yet, we were all expected to return a few hours later to start preparing for the 6 PM show!

RadioAaron wrote:

cash wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

The Jays' games are already all in DST.

Jays' games next year that start at 7pm in Toronto, will start at 5pm in Vancouver, not 4pm as they will in 2026. 

Sigh.

My mistake. 

How it will affect the Canucks games and what's shown out east - including a west coast game involving the Leafs.

Canucks’ nationally broadcast Saturday games to shift to 8pm start in November


 

It's not just TV that will be affected by the change to permanent daylight time in B.C. Some AM stations may be, too.

"For broadcasters, the impact could be significant. Permanent daylight saving time would delay sunrise even further during winter months, meaning some daytime-only AM stations could not begin broadcasting until well into the morning drive period. In addition to daytime-only stations, many other AMs operate at reduced power or switch to directional signals after sunset to protect other stations on the dial.

Some stations could see modest benefits in the afternoon, as permanent daylight saving time would extend usable daylight hours later into the day. But broadcasters argue those gains would not offset losses during morning drive. It still represents a large share of advertising revenue for many stations." 

I'm not sure how many AM daytimers there are in Canada, but it could be a big problem for those on lower power in the darkness or those in the U.S. 

Clock Change Highlights AM Stations’ Sunrise Challenge

Until it gets on 900, CHIN-AM 1540 in Toronto is now daytime only. Maybe not a significant player, but it's one of the stations locally that would suffer from a late sign-on. WTOR 770 in Youngstown, N.Y., which for all intents and purposes broadcasts to the GTA, would be another place that would not benefit. 

It's moot anyway, I suppose, since it's almost certain it won't happen here without the cooperation of Quebec and New York State. And neither seem willing or ready to do it.