You'd think Canada's national broadcaster, of all entities, would not do this. Isn't part of their mandate to serve all areas of the country? Putting one city's local news in the other is a great cost saver, but does little to inform the public they're supposedly trying to serve. 

This is the first time I've seen this here, but if it's happened before in your area, that's not good. Nothing is as irrelevant as local news from hundreds of kilometres away.

I rarely watch CBLT, so that's why it surprised me. But even if it "isn't new," it doesn't seem very logical, even if for one day. Why not run something else in that time slot if they're not going to have the regular local crew in, as they do at noon on most weekday holidays? It was pointless filler. 

100% agree, although I wonder if the News Network was wall-to-wall Canada Day concert stuff. 

RadioActive wrote:

You'd think Canada's national broadcaster, of all entities, would not do this. Isn't part of their mandate to serve all areas of the country? Putting one city's local news in the other is a great cost saver, but does little to inform the public they're supposedly trying to serve. 

This is the first time I've seen this here, but if it's happened before in your area, that's not good. Nothing is as irrelevant as local news from hundreds of kilometres away.

CBC viewers across Ontario outside the GTA, Windsor and Ottawa area have been dealing with this for decades. Since 1988 our “local” CBC in London has been showing Toronto news. And Northern Ontario, all the way west to Thunder Bay gets Toronto as its “local” CBC news. And this is not unique to CBC; Global is even worse, Ottawa viewers of that network have never had their own local news, instead getting Toronto.

There’s no business case for this to change nowadays (except for maybe the addition of FAST channels in new markets), but many Ontario viewers well outside the GTA have been accustomed to seeing irrelevant Toronto news for many years, so this is not a new phenomenon. It’s just different when it’s Ottawa showing in other cities.

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Sonomag wrote:

Canada Day 6pm  : CBC  Ottawa - Provincial Broadcast and Full Canada Day Coverage. Canada Day  6pm : CTV Ottawa - Corner Gas .                              

I think CTV should air the feed from their Newschannel in place of the weekend newscasts that were canceled this year. Not shows like Corner Gas, Seinfeld or Highway Thru Hell. You got the CTV Comedy Channel that airs Corner Gas and Seinfeld, and you got Discovery that airs Highway Thru Hell. Bu the question is what will happen to Highway Thru Hell since it is a Bell Media production for Discovery?

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haydenmatthews14 wrote:

I think CTV should air the feed from their Newschannel in place of the weekend newscasts that were canceled this year. Not shows like Corner Gas, Seinfeld or Highway Thru Hell.

Or yet another rerun of The Big Bang Theory. The way CTV airs that show is almost like how Global so often aired The Love Boat way back when, or Rochester NY's WROC plugging in Magnum P.I. reruns as needed when the station was still an NBC affiliate.