Here's her background:

Jessica Smith

My favorite fact:

"She was voted the "Best TV Weather Person" in the Prairie Dog Best of Regina 2019"

Hey, you can't do much better than that...

As for whether (weather?) she's permanent or not, it's hard to say, especially once Lindsay Morrison returns from mat leave. But they definitely need another body. At noon, it was anchor weather, with few maps and little detail, something we're seeing a lot more of on CTV since they fired regulars Tom Brown and Anwar Knight. (And would it kill them to hire an actual meteorologist like their competitors?)

Radiowiz wrote:

I've said it before and I will say it again. JUST SHUT THE CTV TORONTO weather department down and go to CP24 weather for Toronto already!! 

Bell has more money than brains I guess. 

 

I would go further and just merge the CFTO and CP24 newsrooms.

That's a fair point and I've made the adjustment. Thanks to Mace for putting this thread up. I noticed she was on, too, and was surprised they finally, finally found an extra person to fill the gap. Took them long enough. I hope that's not the end of Michelle Jobin, though. (Do you suppose there's now a weather person shortage at CTV Kitchener? This is the second presenter they've taken from that farm team.)

AspectRatio wrote:

@mace, any way to make your subject lines a bit more descriptive? Just posting a name alone and nothing else implies a death, sadly, where that's kind of been the SOWNY convention, before anyone clicks-in.

Why not a "slug" like "New weather presenter Jessica Smith" or "CTV Kitchener's Jessica Smith for Toronto?".

Thanks for the suggestion. I will remember that for future posts.

I wonder if Jessica was actually in Toronto for the cast.  All CTV stations have the same weather graphics and I noticed at the end of CTV's Toronto cast last night for the long studio shot, Jessica wasn't with the two anchors on set and the weather board was dark.  There was nobody where the weather person would have been placed.  I have seen the occasional live weather on CTV news channel which uses weather people from all over the CTV network but the presentations and graphics are all the same and the weather person is still at their home base. 

CTV Kitchener usually has about 3 people who do weather (two weekdays and one weekend), so it will be interesting to see if Jessica has actually left locally or just filling in from time to time.  That's how Lindsay started when she appeared on Your Morning, she actually was still doing weather in Kitchener and would even do the odd music show on the local Virgin Radio station.   

It's just interesting how other stations, such as CTV Kitchener, seem to be better staffed (on-air anyway) than the flagship station in the network.

Bentwater wrote:

So much for appointment television viewing at 6pm for me from CFTO News. It has nothing to do with Jessica Smith.

The weather segments are reminiscent of the old cable 10 local news with its largely unwatchable weather maps and sometimes stuttering, uncertain talent. 

Why do they put a reporter on a live hit who tells me about the uncertainties of a story and it's being monitored.  Why is this person appearing on my television telling me they know nothing?

There's zero chance of any RTNDA recognition with this nightly eye sore.

Honestly, for the 11:30 PM CTV Toronto news, I don't care if the person live on location just stands there and farts!
I'm too happy that someone is even LIVE on location at that time of night in the first place.
Citynews turns out the lights @ 7PM and just airs everything that happened between 5 and 7 pm with a live newsreader that just reads news and spews what happened around 9:30 that evening. If lucky, a cameraman was on scene to film images but nobody to report anything. 
Live on location at 11pm? HA!!! GOOD ONE!! They can't even handle the volume! 
Test the volume before going to air? NAWWWW!!! That costs too much money, so the risk of muted news is extremely high, & muted volume is exactly what happened the other day. 
What a piece of SHIT Citynews@11 is in 2021!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!