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''CBC Newsroom'' is the blanket title for the daytime
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broadcast by the
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. The program has been broadcast under various titles, including ''CBC News: Today'', and ''CBC News Now'' from 2009 to 2016. From 2016, the block had no formal title; it was listed in program guides as ''CBC News Network'', before the introduction of the ''CBC Newsroom'' branding in 2023. It is broadcast weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 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 (with a two-hour break at 10 a.m. ET for '' Rosemary Barton Live'') with additional evening broadcasts on weekdays (discussed below). On Saturdays, additional editions air at the 6, 9 and 11 p.m. half-hours. Deana Sumanac-Johnson is the main host of these editions. A
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of ''CBC Newsroom'' 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
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, were added in fall 2012 as a replacement for '' Connect with Mark Kelley'', a more resource-intensive program which had been cancelled due to CBC budget cuts, and for the weekday airings of ''
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''. 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 featured Vancouver-based reporters including
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and
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. For the first several months, the program closed with a segment called "The Edit", a montage highlighting the day's top stories. On October 16, 2017, the Vancouver broadcasts were discontinued. They were replaced by a two-hour edition of ''CBC News Network'' at 7 p.m. ET, anchored from Toronto by Carole MacNeil. They were later replaced by two new programs, ''CBC Rundown'' and ''Canada Tonight''. ''Rundown'' would be cancelled in 2023 in favour of expanding ''Canada Tonight'' to two hours.


Notable hosts


From Toronto

*
Heather Hiscox Heather Hiscox (born 18 November 1965) is a Canadian news anchor, who is the current host of ''CBC Morning Live with Heather Hiscox'' from 6 to 10 a.m. during weekdays on CBC News Network. She has also hosted CBC's former flagship morning televi ...
(Weekdays 6am-10am) * Suhana Meharchand (Weekdays 10am-1pm) * Carole MacNeil (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 a public speaker and the founder of Diana Swain Strategies, an Executive Coaching and Communications Consulting firm based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Swain established the firm in January, 2024 after a career as a Canadian journal ...
* Hannah Thibedeau * Reshmi Nair *
Natasha Fatah Natasha Fatah (born,1 January 1980), is a Canadian journalist, based in Toronto, Ontario. She is a host for CBC News Network. Early life and education Fatah was born in Karachi, Pakistan and spent most of her childhood in Saudi Arabia in Ri ...
* Jennifer Hall


From Vancouver

* Sarah Galashan *
Ian Hanomansing Ian Harvey Hanomansing (born 1962/1963) is a Trinidadian-Canadian television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)."Hanomansing's future is anchored in star potential: Pacific Rim host could be next Mansbridge". ''Vancouver ...


External links


CBC News Now


References

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