CTV News is the

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division of the

CTV Television Network The CTV Television Network, commonly known as CTV, is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television network. Launched in 1961 and acquired by BCE Inc. in 2000, CTV is Canada's largest privately owned List of Canadian ...

in Canada. The name ''CTV News'' is also applied as the title of local and regional newscasts on the network's

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s (O&Os), which are closely tied to the national news division. Local newscasts on

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are also branded as ''CTV News'', although in most cases they are managed separately from the newscasts on the main CTV network.

History

On 1 September 2011, chief news anchor

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retired after 35 years at the helm of the flagship. In September 2023 BellMedia celebrated long-time news anchor

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's 50th year with the franchise. On 26 September 2024 CTV News admitted that it had altered or manipulated a clip of

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broadcast the previous Sunday. It fired two news editors and apologized "unreservedly". On 2 October he ended his boycott of the broadcaster. in 1961 CTV News was launched by the government.

National programs

CTV's national news division produces the following programs which air on the main CTV network: * ''

CTV National News ''CTV National News'' is the flagship newscast of CTV News, the news division of the CTV Television Network, which airs at 11:00 pm local time on the CTV stations across Canada, and is produced from CTV's facilities at 9 Channel Nine Court in Sc ...

'', the nightly newscasts anchored by

(early evening weekdays), Omar Sachedina (late evening weekdays), and Heather Butts (late evening weekends); * ''

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'', a weekly news and interview series. Additionally, CTV News operates the national 24-hour news channel CTV News Channel and the 24-hour national business news channel

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, both of which are available across Canada on cable and satellite. The news division produced the weekday morning news and entertainment program ''

Canada AM ''Canada AM'' is a Canadian morning television news show that aired on CTV from 1972 to 2016. Its final hosts were Beverly Thomson and Marci Ien, with Jeff Hutcheson presenting the weather forecast and sports. The program aired on weekdays, an ...

'' from 1972 to October 2015, when responsibility for the program was transferred to Bell Media In-House Productions, the division responsible for CTV's other daytime lifestyle programming, until the program's cancellation in June 2016. ''Canada AMs replacement ''

Your Morning ''Your Morning'' is a Canadian breakfast television program that is broadcast on CTV and CTV News Channel. It debuted on August 22, 2016 and airs live from 6-9 a.m. in the Eastern Time Zone and simulcast elsewhere in Canada according to local sc ...

'' is produced by Bell Media Studios, with news content provided by CTV News. On February 8, 2024, Bell announced the cancellation of CTV's long-running newsmagazine ''W5'' as part of budgetary and staff cuts. The brand will still be used for investigative journalism across CTV News properties. The national news operation also briefly produced a roughly ten-minute national and international news summary, anchored by Heather Butts, which was embedded in CTV O&Os' weekend early evening newscasts from November 2023 to February 2024, when the majority of local weekend newscasts were cancelled.

Local programs

In most markets, local CTV News programs air at 6 p.m., and 11:00 p.m. (CTV 2) or 11:30 p.m. (CTV) on weekdays. In selected markets, 5:00 p.m. newscasts, and weekend newscasts at 6 p.m. and 11:00 p.m./11:30 p.m., are also produced, and several CTV stations in western Canada (and some CTV Two stations in eastern Canada) produce local morning newscasts under the title ''

CTV Morning Live ''CTV Morning Live'' is the name of the local morning newscasts airing on CTV's owned-and-operated stations in Western Canada, specifically, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg as well as on CTV 2 stations in Ottawa an ...

''. In 1998, shortly following the merger of the CTV network with Baton Broadcasting, local news branding on the CTV O&Os was unified with network news presentation, with newscast titles standardized under the format "(

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) News", e.g. '' CFTO News'' for the Toronto station. Prior to this, the local O&Os used various titles, though one used in the late 1970s by a number of stations was ''World Beat News'' (for late-afternoon broadcasts) and ''Night Beat News'' (for late-night broadcasts). By late 2005 the O&Os' local newscasts had been renamed ''CTV News''. Beginning in February 2014, local programs were rebranded using region-specific on-air titles such as ''CTV News Toronto''. On November 13, 2023, CTV replaced 5:30 p.m. newscasts with an evening edition of ''CTV National News.'' On February 8, 2024, Bell made major cuts to CTV's local newscasts. All noon newscasts outside of Toronto were cut, as well as weekend newscasts outside of Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa. Bell will also expand

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models to Atlantic Canada, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec and Saskatchewan. National aggregate ratings published by BBM Canada refer to the local broadcasts collectively as ''CTV Evening News'', ''CTV Late News'', ''CTV Noon News'', etc., although these titles are not used on-air. Since most CTV affiliates are owned by the network, CTV offers the opportunity to buy national ads on local programming across its O&Os, making these aggregate ratings useful for advertisers. Local ''CTV News'' programs are produced in the following markets: *

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( CKVR) *

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( CFCN) *

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( CFRN) *

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( CICI /

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) * Halifax ( CJCH /

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) * Kitchener ( CKCO) *

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( CFPL) *

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( CFCF) *

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(

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/ CHRO) * Regina ( CKCK) *

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( CFQC) *

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( CFTO) *

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( CIVT) *

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( CIVI) *

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( CKY) * Windsor ( CHWI) CTV O&Os in smaller markets air a newscast produced in one of the larger markets noted above, although some may also produce a shorter local news insert aired during a break in the main market's program, and some of these smaller stations produce their own noon newscasts. Through the purchase of

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, Bell Media acquired ''

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'' which produced local newscasts mainly in smaller markets or alternate areas of larger markets. When the A system was rebranded as "CTV Two" on August 29, 2011 (and later

), its newscasts switched to the CTV News branding, likely because "CTV Two News" might be seen as connoting a second-class newscast. The CTV News broadcasts on the CTV 2 stations previously used the main CTV logo as their logo bug during these newscasts as did the main CTV network, but they currently use the regionally branded titles such as ''CTV News Barrie'' as is now the case for the CTV O&Os. Most of these stations are nevertheless required to separate their news operations from CTV stations in local and adjacent markets. This restriction does not apply to the cable-only channels CTV Two Atlantic, which has been co-owned with the local CTV stations since its launch (their news operations have been fully integrated since 1998), and CTV Two Alberta, which produces a current affairs program, ''Alberta Primetime'', using resources from local CTV stations. Independent affiliates also air their own local newscasts, such as NTV (which despite dropping CTV's entertainment programming in 2002, still provides coverage of Newfoundland for CTV News and airs its national newscasts), and CITL-TV (which airs ''Prime Time Local News'', a production shared with its sister station,

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affiliate (now

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affiliate) CKSA-TV). Bell Media also operates

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, a regional news channel focusing on the

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and most of

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, which was acquired through the purchase of

, and formerly aligned with Citytv Toronto. The channel airs news programs focused on the region, and as of June 2024, the station airs simulcasts of CFTO's 12 noon (weekdays); 6:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. newscasts.

News bureaus

CTV News has bureaus across Canada and around the world, but many were closed to cut costs (most recently those in

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, and

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) and replaced with reporters sent to locations from the existing bureaus. A list of current bureaus:

National

* Halifax **Reporter: Paul Hollingsworth *

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**Reporter: Sarah Plowman *

**Bureau Chief: Geneviève Beauchemin *

**Chief Political Correspondent:

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**Reporters: Annie Bergeron-Oliver, Judy Trinh, Jeremie Charron, Colton Praill, and Mike Le Couteur * Regina **Reporter: Allison Bamford * St. John's **Reporter: Garrett Barry *

**Reporters: John Vennavally-Rao, Heather Wright, Heather Butts, Adrian Ghobrial, Scott Hurst, Tony Grace, Kamil Karamali, and Cristina Tenaglia *

**Reporter: Alex Karpa *

**Reporter: Kathy Le *

**Bureau Chief: Andrew Johnson

International

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- United States **Bureau Chief: Joy Malbon

''My News''

In 2008, the CTV News website introduced ''My News'', a

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feature allowing citizens to upload their images or videos relating to current events. Viewers may also upload media for any station or program.

''NewsDay'' and ''NewsNight'' by CTV News

''NewsDay'' and ''NewsNight'' aired weekly on

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exclusively in Canada. It was hosted by Heather Butts and Reshmi Nair. Quibi was shut down on December 1, 2020.

Criticism and Controversy

Allegations of Anti-Palestinian Bias

In November 2023, reports emerged alleging that CTV News, owned by Bell Media, exhibited systemic bias against Palestinians in its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to an investigation by The Breach, internal emails revealed that CTV journalists were instructed not to use the term "Palestine," with a senior editor reportedly stating that "Palestine...does not currently exist." The investigation also claimed that CTV National News, the network's flagship program, featured 62% more Israeli voices than Palestinian voices in its coverage following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel. Additionally, it was reported that nearly half of the Palestinian voices featured were not identified by name, unlike their Israeli counterparts. Journalists interviewed by The Breach alleged a "culture of fear" within CTV newsrooms, where staff felt discouraged from reporting critically on Israel's actions due to potential repercussions. These allegations sparked public debate about media impartiality in Canada, with some commentators and activists arguing that CTV's coverage contributed to an unbalanced portrayal of the conflict. CTV News has not publicly responded to these specific claims.

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