haydenmatthews14 wrote:

Don’t expect any news from CTV Toronto on Christmas day. I think this is the first time that CFTO will not do a newscast on Christmas day. Although I do remember CFTO did a Ontario wide newscast that aired on CTV Kitchener, CTV Ottawa and CTV Northern Ontario a few years ago before these cuts began to happen at almost all of the CTV stations.

Now I flipped between CTV London, CTV Kitchener and CTV Toronto on how well they did an Christmas Eve newscast.

1. CTV London had a regional newscast for the first time in a while since the weekend newscasts were cut at CTV London and CTV Windsor. Carlyle Fiset was anchoring the whole newscast from London while Gary Archibald was doing the weather segments from the Windsor studio.

2. CTV Kitchener had a normal newscast but the question is where is Will Aiello? He has been off for quite sometime. They had Tyler Kelaher doing the weather segments along with the Toy Mountain campaign that appears on CTV Toronto and sometimes on CTV London. I hope Will returns soon.

3. CTV Toronto also had a normal newscast as well. Well sort of, but here is the part that bothers me the most. The anchor doing the weather. Yes that’s right Nathan Downer was doing the weather segments during the 6PM newscast. I bet that also happened on the noon newscast as well. I hope in the new year that CTV Toronto improves the weather segments by hiring subsitute weather anchors or the weather staff from CP24 since they moved into the new location a month ago.

Also don’t expect any late news on all of the CTV stations except CHCH Hamilton. There is eTalk airing on the CTV2 stations in Windsor, London and Barrie stations at 11. CTV Kitchener has a local chruch service that airs at 11:30PM. I don’t know what CTV Toronto CTV Ottawa or CTV Northern Ontario has planned to air in those timeslots. On the other hand don’t expect newscasts on CHCH, Citytv, CBC Toronto and Global News Toronto since it’s Christmas. I think they might do the National News on CTV CBC and Global but no local news. But on Boxing Day. CTV Toronto along with Citytv, CBC Toronto, CHCH and Global News Toronto will have news on Boxing Day excluding the CTV stations in Windsor, London, Kitchener and Barrie since they were cut by Bell this past year.

I would guess that CFTO's 6 PM news will air on CP24 only this year since the rest of CTV will be in NFL football. The TV guides also say that Citytv has a 6 PM newscast on Christmas Day. Don't they normally have news on Christmas?

I notice tonight CTV London’s news is being done from Windsor.

What news?  Toy Mountain is over.  Maybe the latest shooting, or dire weather predictions?  Rinse and repeat.

MJ Vancouver wrote:

I notice tonight CTV London’s news is being done from Windsor.

I switched to CTV Kitchener for more local news. CTV London has limited local news during the holiday break.

RadioActive wrote:

There will be news on New Year's Eve - but not on all the locals. Both CBC and City TV have special NYE shows. In City's case, it's the annual Dick Clark show from Times Square (and ABC.) Long gone are the days when the station would take over Nathan Phillips Square for a huge and well watched local show. The Clark special runs until after 2:30 AM.

 
Rogers got rid of the Citytv NYE show shortly after they took over the channel, they really tried to erase all of that stations history, and did so. An old friend of mine asked me before Christmas if Citytv was still “a thing”, I wasn’t sure how to answer! Yeah, I guess it’s still “a thing”, of sorts.