CBC to cancel "Canada Now", expand local newscasts

[Guest Broken News]

"Canada Now" will be history in February 2007. It's replacement...more local news. CBC will be restoring hour long 6pm newscasts, using it's Vancouver operation as a model.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2006/11/30/cbc-media.html

[johnnya2k6 171]

And speaking of CBC News...

 

Larry Henderson, the first anchor of CBC's "The National News" (which would later become "The National", of course) from 1954-59, died last week peacefully at 89.

 

Jonathan Allen

[Andy B 0]

Interesting, it's about time really. I was watching a news report a while back that CBC wanted to do more local programming but were restricted due to funding.

[ED1 0]

Hope CBC looks at doing late night and weekend newscasts again.

[ED1 0]

An update to this thread...

 

CBC Vancouver has launched a local half hour newscast at 12:00pm, followed by CBC News Today at 12:30.

 

CBC will be going up against the only other Vancouver-based noon news cast in the region - the Noon News Hour on Global BC. VTV (now CTV 9) used to have a noon newscast, and CHEK/CH Victoria recently cancelled their noon newscast.