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Some Notable Changes To Local Newscasts
Broadcast Dialogue is filled with a series of changes to local TV newscasts in the GTHA. Among them:
-Tracy Tong is now the official co-anchor along with Alan Carter on Global's 5:30 and 6 PM weekday newscasts, while still retaining the 11 PM show by herself.
-Kamil Karamali, who's been with Global for several years, mostly in B.C., is now the national correspondent for CTV News, based in Toronto. In a post on Twitter/X, he calls it "a dream come true."
-And there are some musical chairs going on at CHCH, where anchor Taz Boga has left the 11 PM anchor desk, and will concentrate solely on the 6 o'clock news instead. (Here's her brief on-air announcement.) What's odd is who is replacing her. A trio of rotating news readers - Emily Tayler, Manessa Dhanabalan and Jason Gaidola - will all take turns doing the late show. A strange arrangement, especially considering a familiar regular anchor is usually the best way to promote a nightly newscast. The changes are effective immediately.
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Referring to CHCH: So it's live at 11 now? It had been pre-taped for several years now, only with Bubba O'Neil updating sports at 11pm, and introducing any breaking news that happened after 6pm.
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Referring to CHCH: I wonder if Laverne McGee wants in on this. She co-anchored with Dan McLean back in the day. She's back now as a reporter, after having been an anchor at the Black News Channel, which went bankrupt last year.
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Taz Boga has elderly parents. Maybe they need looking after. That might be why she requested some relief on the scheduled work hours. And I like the idea of giving youngsters an aspirational role in any company .. it's an excellent means of determining merit and acceptability (or perhaps popularity in this business).