CBC News Network (formerly CBC Newsworld) is a

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English-language specialty news channel owned by the

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(CBC). It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. As Canada's first all-news channel, it is the world's third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in the United States and

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in the United Kingdom. It is funded by cable subscriber fees and commercial advertising. Unlike the CBC's main television network, the channel cannot directly receive operational funds from the corporation's public funding allotment—although it does benefit from synergies with other CBC services, such as the ability to share reporters and programs with the main network. CBC News Network's

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counterpart is Ici RDI, also owned by the CBC (or, ''Société Radio-Canada'' in French).

Revenue

According to the 2014 "Communications Monitoring Report" by the

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(CRTC), CBC News Network in 2014 had 11.3 million subscribers and a revenue of $86.7 million.

History

With CNN already being widely available in Canada during the 1980s, private and state-owned Canadian broadcasters began to apply for a licence for a similar 24-hour news service in Canada. In 1987, the

(CRTC) awarded a licence to the CBC. The launch of CBC's 24-hour news service was delayed several times: first when

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, who had filed a competing application for an all-news channel, chose to appeal the CRTC decision; second, when the federal cabinet issued a directive to the CBC to revise its service plan for the network to include private commercial broadcasters and to launch a parallel

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service; and lastly, when cable companies were reluctant to add the service just five months after a similar launch of numerous other channels. CBC Newsworld finally began broadcasting on 31 July 1989 from several regional studios in Halifax,

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and

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, becoming Canada's first all-news channel. (As of 2017, there are production studios in Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax.) In the 1990s, the channel also aired repeats of

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's political sketch comedy series '' This Hour Has 22 Minutes'' and ''

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'', but these were discontinued in 2001 after a CRTC directive that the shows did not qualify as news programming. In 2000, because of a fee dispute between

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(then known as Regional Cablesystems; later acquired by Eastlink) and the CBC, CBC News Network was dropped by a number of Persona-owned cable systems. Thereafter, while CBC News Network was sometimes thought to be a mandatory basic cable channel, these cable systems did not carry the channel at all during much of the 2000s.

Newsworld International

Some of CBC News Network's programming also aired on the now-defunct Newsworld International, an American cable news network co-owned by the CBC and the

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. CBC Newsworld (as it was then known) produced some programming for Newsworld International, and scheduled programming from other news networks like Britain's

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, which did not air on the Canadian channel. Soon after, Newsworld International was sold to

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in 2000, then to Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2001, and then to

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and

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in 2004. Newsworld continued to provide the network's programming until Gore and Hyatt launched their own network,

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, on 1 August 2005. In 2013, the channel was sold again to the

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and became

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on 20 August 2013.

2009 re-launch

In December 2008, it was reported that the CBC planned to revamp Newsworld in 2009, as the result of a strategic review and

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. The CBC found that

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of CBC Newsworld was lower in comparison to other

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s, and there was a perception that the CBC broke stories too slowly. Tentative plans also called for the revamped channel to have more prominent displays of news headlines and weather reports. On 21 October 2009, it was announced that CBC Newsworld would be renamed CBC News Network on October 26 as part of a larger re-launch of the

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division. A new lineup of programs was introduced to the network, with a greater emphasis towards live news coverage. New programs included ''CBC News Now'' (the channel's rolling news coverage), ''

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'', ''

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'' (a business news program hosted by

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and ''

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''-investor

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), and ''

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''.

CBC News Network HD

In January 2009, the CBC launched an HD

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of CBC News Network (then CBC Newsworld) called CBC Newsworld HD. The channel was renamed CBC News Network HD on 26 October 2009 to coincide with the renaming of CBC Newsworld to CBC News Network. The HD feed has been confirmed at 720p resolution on

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after it was added to the lineup in 2014. It is available through all major television providers in the country.

Programming

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—and ''

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''—a political affairs program hosted by Don Newman that aired twice daily. '' The Hour'' with

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was launched in 2005 in an attempt to attract younger viewers; similar news-oriented talk shows, such as '' Pamela Wallin Live'', ''

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'', ''Face Off'', and ''

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'', also aired on the network in the 1990s. The network's daytime schedule consists of live rolling news coverage (formerly branded as '' CBC News Now''), which airs weekdays from 10:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. ET, Saturdays from 6:00a.m. to 5:30p.m. ET, and Sundays from 6:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. ET (with a two-hour break from 10:00a.m. to 12:00p.m. ET). Instead of producing a separate noon-hour program, most

stations simulcast CBC News Network from 12:00 to 1:00pm local time, with an "L-bar" showing local news and weather headlines. ''

'' airs live from 5:00 to 7:00p.m. ET. From 8:00 to 9:00p.m. on weekdays, CBC News Network airs ''Canada Tonight'', hosted by Ginella Massa. Beginning with the

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airing at 9:00p.m. ET, '' The National''—CBC News' flagship nightly newscast—runs live until 2:00a.m. ET and then on a loop until 6:00 a.m. ET the following morning. Other original programming that appear on CBC News Network includes: * ''Marketplace'' — Canadian consumer

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series * ''The Fifth Estate'' — investigative documentary

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series * '' The Passionate Eye'' — documentary television series * ''

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'' — live weekly program on political news and issues, hosted by CBC's chief political correspondent

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. * ''The Investigators'' — hosted by

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Since 2021, the channel has also simulcast CBC Radio One's news phone-in show '' Cross Country Checkup'' on Sunday afternoons.

Anchors

Current

* Peter Armstrong *

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* Natasha Fatah * Jennifer Hall * Ian Hanomansing * Heather Hiscox *

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* Ginella Massa * Andrew Nichols * Scott Peterson * Aarti Pole * Michael Serapio * Hannah Thibedeau

Former

Original members of the first Newsworld anchor team: * George Boyd *

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* Beth Gaines *Jane Gilbert * Paul Griffin Other former anchors: * Dave Brindle * Kim Brunhuber — now with '' The National'' * Bill Cameron — deceased (2005) *

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— 1990s * Harry Forestell — now host of ''CBC News: New Brunswick'' * Dawna Friesen — now with ''

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'' * Tom Harrington — current host of ''

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'' on

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— now former

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"Major changes ahead at CBC News"
''

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'', Print Edition: June 16, 2009, Page R1. *

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— now host of '' World Report'', ''CBC News Toronto Weekend'', and ''CBC Toronto News at 11'' (Sunday) *

— eponymous anchor of ''

''; now host of '' Bloomberg North'' on

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— now '' CTV Morning Live'' *

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— official for the

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and metro organiser for the

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* Reshmi Nair * Don Newman — retired * John Northcott - now weekend anchor of '' World Report'' on

* Anne Petrie *

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— current host of ''Ottawa Morning'' on CBC Radio Ottawa * Lorne Saxberg — died in snorkelling accident in

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* Sarika Sehgal — moved to CTV News Channel; now deceasedFormer news anchor Sarika Sehgal dead at 42
''broadcastdialogue.com'', May 27, 2019 * Alison Smith — now retired; former co-anchor of ''

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'' on

with

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— now host of Question Period on CTV News Channel *

— now freelance *

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— retired; deceased as of 2000 * Nancy Wilson — retired

Logos

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References

External links

*
Newsworld on MBC
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