CTV National News does this

I'm glad to see others are doing it. It's a small thing on one of the slowest news nights of the year, and while some staffers don't really care, for those who do, it's a nice little reward for hard working people who don't get much notice otherwise. 

In the case of NBC, it's the dozens and dozens of pictures that accompany the names that adds the finishing and personal touch, along with lots of shots of the control rooms and the work stations they toil at. If you're curious, you can see what it looks like here. It starts at the 15:10 mark.

CTV National News did do their staff credit roll tonight for Christmas.  About 1,000 names and lasted almost 8 minutes.  Some other years they included photos of employees grouped into the different production categories.  

Speaking of holiday news shows, it's interesting to me the decision each local TV station here made.

None of the big four (CTV, City TV, Global, CBC) did a noon newscast. (City TV never does, the rest do.)

CTV did only a half hour news at 6, and only on CP24, because CFTO was carrying non-stop football all day. They only had in one anchor (Rahim Ladhani) and one reporter (Beth McDonnell) and the rest were pre-taped stories from other CTV stations around the country. There was also no weather person, which is sadly becoming all too common at the station. The 6 was then immediately repeated on CP24, which needed to fill the time. They also announced at the end of the newscast that there would be no 11:30 update.

City TV did its usual 6 o'clock hour long show, but nothing at 5 PM. It also skipped the 11, showing a Christmas choir instead, an annual City TV tradition stretching back to the Colin Vaughan era. 

CBC did no news shows, 6 or 11.

And while I believe Global did a National show at 6:30, there was no 5:30 update and nothing at all at 6 or 11. Instead they aired "A Conversation with the Prime Minister" where their 6 PM news would have been. 

All totaled, excluding cable, there were only two actual local newscasts on the air in Toronto on Christmas Day. Neither were especially well staffed. 

In Phase wrote:

CTV National News does this

Global National did this tonight as well. I don’t recall them doing this in the past.

I recall seeing the National do that years ago either for Christmas or the last show of the year - don't remember which. Don't know if they still do. 

Global did not do a noon newscast on Wednesday. It was replaced by a year-ender featuring the network's correspondents recapping the news of the year. Given that it's now been three days, my guess would be there won't be another noon show until after New Year's. We'll see on Thursday.

RadioActive wrote:

Speaking of holiday news shows, it's interesting to me the decision each local TV station here made.

None of the big four (CTV, City TV, Global, CBC) did a noon newscast. (City TV never does, the rest do.)

CTV did only a half hour news at 6, and only on CP24, because CFTO was carrying non-stop football all day. They only had in one anchor (Rahim Ladhani) and one reporter (Beth McDonnell) and the rest were pre-taped stories from other CTV stations around the country. There was also no weather person, which is sadly becoming all too common at the station. The 6 was then immediately repeated on CP24, which needed to fill the time. They also announced at the end of the newscast that there would be no 11:30 update.

City TV did its usual 6 o'clock hour long show, but nothing at 5 PM. It also skipped the 11, showing a Christmas choir instead, an annual City TV tradition stretching back to the Colin Vaughan era. 

CBC did no news shows, 6 or 11.

And while I believe Global did a National show at 6:30, there was no 5:30 update and nothing at all at 6 or 11. Instead they aired "A Conversation with the Prime Minister" where their 6 PM news would have been. 

All totaled, excluding cable, there were only two actual local newscasts on the air in Toronto on Christmas Day. Neither were especially well staffed. 

CHCH did not have a Morning show or the 6 and 11 newscasts on Christmas day, CTV London CTV Windsor and CTV Kitchener did not even have newscasts on Christmas day ether. On the other hand CTV London at 6PM had the Celebration of 70 Years of CFPL-TV on Boxing Day which was a nice thing to air. No 11PM newcast on that day ether. I believe CTV Barrie had no news on boxing day? Correct me if I am wrong. CTV Kitchener had a half hour 6PM newscast and the normal 11:30PM newscast. CTV Windsor had no news on Boxing day as well. So you can say that people in Windsor could trust the Detroit news on those days where CTV Windsor does not have any newscasts on Holidays.

RadioActive wrote:

Global did not do a noon newscast on Wednesday. It was replaced by a year-ender featuring the network's correspondents recapping the news of the year. Given that it's now been three days, my guess would be there won't be another noon show until after New Year's. We'll see on Thursday.

No nooner again from CIII and, according to the listings, there won't be one on Friday either. (They've scheduled a rerun of Mercedes Stephenson's "Chat With The Prime Minister" instead.) It's the first time I can recall Global giving their morning staff the entire week off. 

Spreading good vibes, saving money on overtime or both? Hard to say, but the same sked notes that the noon news will be back on Tuesday, Jan. 2.

Still, perhaps they missed out. This is the one week the majority of people are home from work and could actually watch their noon show. By not doing it, even if low rated, there are a lot of eyeballs that will have never seen it. 

Yes, it was bare bones (one anchor, one reporter, no weather person and lots of pre-taped stuff from their people across the country that would never make a local Toronto newscast otherwise), but it was there on Thursday. I expect the same for Friday and then hopefully things should get back to normal by Tuesday.