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CHCH drops Saturday News
CHCH informed staff on Thursday that they will be ending production of Saturday Evening news broadcasts effective August 29th. This is both the live 6 o'clock cast, and the recorded 11 o'clock late news. Re rolls of "podcasts" will fill the schedule.
Sunday Evening news is not impacted by this change....
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The discontinuation of live current news on tv is a total disservice. There is no way news tidbits (some or more than some of which is not factual) on social media or internet newspapers can replace a full proper tv newscast or printed newspapers. CTV dropped all weekend news which for us ended a regularly watched CTV Kitchener weekend newscast. On a long weekend that means three days of no local news. Since then we have been watching the weekend news on CHCH which is the closest to local we can get on tv. Now we are going to lose half of that. It's as though the media moguls think nothing newsworthy happens between Friday evening and Monday (or Tuesday after a long weekend). It is just peachy to be watching Monday 6PM news hearing about major events that happened the Friday before that was too late for the Friday newscast. Radio is even worse. Almost every radio station we can get has no news. 680News is basically unlistenable here and even when the signal does come in clearly enough, it does not cover the Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge-Guelph area. I understand news is expensive but I think it should be part of the broadcast mandate of every tv and radio station to provide a full comprehensive local newscast seven days a week, no exception.
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CHCH neads to increece there news but they won't and cant.
I used to like there all day news when I wanted something less downtown centric and less national.
- Brad
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Centerline wrote:
Well the 6 show is on tonight, so who knows.
The penultimate Saturday newscast.
- Glen Warren
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Well the 6 show is on tonight, so who knows.
...effective August 29th
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Thread Starter- turkeytop
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Like CTV London. London could have a tornado or earthquake on Saturday and we wouldn't hear about it until Monday night. Oh well, at least we get E Talk.
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I am thinking local TV news is expensive to create. Take the case of CTV London which I occasionally watch (my wife is a faithful viewer), they have a few reporters, two weather people, a regular and a couple of substitute anchors a few vehicles and production and editing people. These folks have to be paid.
Do the 6 and or 11 pm newscasts on mid market stations like London, Kitchener, Barrie etc. make enough money from advertising or any other sources to cover the cost of the staff and related expenses.
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In addition to the industry woes that every broadcaster is feeling, I feel like CTV London, Windsor, and Barrie have a bit of a handicap because they have an inferior program schedule, compared to the main CTV network. If CTV London was part of CTV instead of CTV2, would they be doing a bit better?
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Do the 6 and or 11 pm newscasts on mid market stations like London, Kitchener, Barrie etc. make enough money from advertising or any other sources to cover the cost of the staff and related expenses.
They do not.
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In addition to the industry woes that every broadcaster is feeling, I feel like CTV London, Windsor, and Barrie have a bit of a handicap because they have an inferior program schedule, compared to the main CTV network. If CTV London was part of CTV instead of CTV2, would they be doing a bit better?
Not so sure they would be. Criminal Minds is a strong syndicated series leading into the 11pm news for CTV2 stations. The actual evening schedule on CTV2 in my opinion rivals the main network many evenings. CTV2 has plenty of NFL football, even games that are not available for free in the US, golf tournaments on the weekend and generally far superior programming compared when they were the old A channel or the New PL, VR, WI etc.