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''CBC News Network'' (sometimes listed in program guides under its former title ''CBC News Now'') is the self-named
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program on
CBC News Network CBC News Network (formerly CBC Newsworld) is a Canadian English-language specialty news channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. As Canada's first all-news channel, it is th ...
. The show is broadcast weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, Saturdays from 6 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET and Sundays from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET (two-hour break at 10 a.m. ET) with additional evening broadcasts on weekdays (discussed below). On Saturdays additional live editions air at the 6, 9 and 11 p.m. half-hours. Aarti Pole is the main host of these editions. The show covers national and international news live throughout the day, featuring breaking news, interviews and guest analysis. The show also has business and sports updates every hour, as well as weather information provided by
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. The daytime broadcasts are produced at the
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in
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.


Simulcast on CBC Television stations

A
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of the rolling coverage is broadcast on all
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stations from noon to 1 p.m. local time (also from 6 to 7 a.m. in regions where a local
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morning show is not simulcast instead).


Evening editions

Primetime airings of the program on weeknights, produced at the
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and hosted by Ian Hanomansing, were added in fall 2012 as a replacement for ''
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'', a more resource-intensive program which had been cancelled due to CBC budget cuts, and for the weekday airings of '' The Passionate Eye''. There are three such broadcasts each weeknight, during the 8 p.m., 10 p.m., and 1 a.m. hours (all times Eastern). These editions are similar in format to the daytime airings but primarily feature Vancouver-based reporters including Sarah Galashan and
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. For the first several months, the final two minutes of each evening edition was devoted to a quick-cut montage of the day's events titled "The Edit", which appeared to be patterned after ''
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s opening montage, the "Eye Opener"; this segment was abandoned by mid-2013. On October 9, 2017, host Sarah Galashan announced that the Vancouver edition of CBC News Network would have its final show on October 13, at 8 PM Eastern time. This segment was replaced by a two hour edition of CBC News Network airing at 7 PM eastern time, and hosted by
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from Toronto. This segment began on October 16, 2017.


Notable hosts


From Toronto

* Heather Hiscox (Weekdays 6am-10am) *
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(Weekdays 10am-1pm) *
Carole MacNeil Carole MacNeil is a Canadian television journalist, known for her work with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation which spanned over thirty years. MacNeil began her career anchoring local news programs in New Brunswick and Ontario in the early ...
(Weeknights 7pm-9pm) *Andrew Nichols (Weekdays 1pm-5pm) *John Northcott (Weekends 6am-11am) * Aarti Pole (Saturday 4pm-5pm, 6pm, 9pm, 11pm) *Michael Serapio (Sunday 11:30am–4:30pm) *
Diana Swain Diana Swain is the executive producer of CBC's investigative documentary program ''The Fifth Estate''. She has held various roles at the public broadcaster, including most recently as the senior editor of the network Investigative Unit. Before t ...
*Hannah Thibedeau *Reshmi Nair * Natasha Fatah *Jennifer Hall


From Vancouver

*Sarah Galashan * Ian Hanomansing


External links


CBC News Now
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