New supper-hour TV news shows launch Monday
Today (Friday) is the last day for CBC’s supper-hour newscast Canada Now, hosted by Ian Hanomansing and regional hosts. Canada Now was created in 2000.
It will be replaced Monday with a full hour of regionally produced news programming, but only the main CBC TV network. Each show will be locally hosted and produced. Newsworld will launch a new international newscast called Around the World, followed by a half hour of CBC News: Today.
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Ian Hanomansing: now that’s one beautiful man. I wondered if he was perhaps too beautiful to be on the news. Plus, whoever ends up being a female co-anchor to him is gonna have to be the uglier one. I mean, you can’t compete with this guy.
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I really enjoyed the “new” format. The only thing I missed was regional sports and arts coverage. My concern is…..are we going to get a good hour of news/information? How much “fluff” or filler are we in for? Feel good fluff is fine in small doses, but too much is…well….too much.
Well I see that the big wigs again have decided to change great program on the CBC again. This seems to be the theme by the new boss. Where o where did they find this person????He sure is not up to par in my books. I think that he would have wanted to keep his loyal viewing public but he will meddle around and there will be only viewer’s that work in his office. I really respected Ian Hanomansing and thought that he was doing a fair job. The only thing good on the CBC is Coronation Street and any thing that comes across the Pond. I see that Emmerdale was yanked off with no warning. Too Bad as they were watch by many Canadians.
Pennylane said that “The only thing good on the CBC is Coronation Street”. Well, Arrested Development is now on CBC so there’s another good one. I think that’s it though.
I think it is good to get more regional and local coverage at 6:00. There should be more competition with CTV, who are becoming a little stale. I hope when you say “local coverage” you mean Ottawa, for Ottawa viewers, and not Toronto. Toronto is only local to Toronto.
Ian Hanomansing will be sorely missed.
However, this reminds me of my more childhood days, when I tried to go on every single channel to find news everywhere. So I still remember those days when it was the CBC Evening News or something like that.
I still don’t understand the Canada Now format anyways. It’s just not logical to fragment the news into national/international and local news because you’re just fragmenting your audience (so people who don’t want to hear about their locale can just shut the box off until 6:30).
If you intermix the two categories together in one seamless newscast, you get to force your audience to watch what they don’t desire to watch before they can watch what they want to watch.
Sounds gimmick-y, but that’s my theory.
Think of it like the supermarket’s strategic placing of high and low demand products. Why is milk put so far away, really…