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CTV Newsnet
Type	Cable television specialty channel
Country	Canada
Availability	National
Owner	CTV Television Inc. (CTVglobemedia)
Launch date	October 17, 1997
Website	www.ctv.ca/news

CTV Newsnet is a Canadian 24 hour cable television headline news specialty channel that launched on October 17, 1997. It is owned by CTVglobemedia and operated through CTV Television Inc.

Contents 1 History 2 Network Reporters 3 Foreign correspondents 4 External links

Licensed in 1996 as CTV N1, it launched on October 17, 1997 as CTV News 1. In 1999, it was renamed CTV Newsnet. It originally began with its news anchors sitting at a desk which would periodically, while the anchor was not speaking, spin in a circle for dramatic effect. This gimmick was widely mocked, and soon abandoned.

At first, the service's licence restricted it to broadcasting the latest news headlines, weather, sports news, financial news and entertainment news, plus advertisements, in a 15 minute "wheel," beginning a new cycle every 15 minutes using a pre-recorded, server-hosted configuration. Not long after its launch, however, it began covering breaking news more audaciously. CTV decided that Newsnet's licence did not prevent it from airing live events provided the anchor broke in at least once during a given 15-minute wheel to read items drawn from most or all of the categories noted above.

CTV progressively sought amendments to this condition to allow greater coverage of breaking news, longer-form news-oriented discussion, and other programming, and was met with mixed decisions from the CRTC. On April 7, 2005, the Commission removed previous conditions mandating a 15 minute news cycle, substituting new but much more liberal conditions. [1]

On August 22, 2005, CTV Newsnet introduced a new, full screen format and improved their late afternoon and prime-time programming, with increases to their anchor, reporting, and production teams, and a greater emphasis on general news from the main anchor desk, reducing sports and business coverage. The network hoped to capitalize in part on the lockout which had nearly obliterated news programming on CBC Television (outside Quebec) and CBC Newsworld.

Along with CTV Newsnet-originated newscasts, and weekday Mike Duffy vehicles Mike Duffy Live and Countdown with Mike Duffy, the network carries the CTV News with Lloyd Robertson and the weekend edition with Sandie Rinaldo, as well as the parent network's Sunday public affairs series Question Period.

Before the 2005 format change, sports segments were co-branded with TSN, and business news with Report on Business Television. Both share common ownership with CTV and Newsnet. Earlier in the network's history, weather reports were provided by The Weather Network, which is independently owned, and sports segments were once co-branded with Headline Sports, and then later by CTV Sportsnet, which CTV owned before it acquired TSN.

• Kate Wheeler anchors CTV Newsnet Afternoon weekdays from 10am-4pm
• Dan Matheson anchors CTV Newsnet Late Afternoon/Evening weekdays from 4pm-8pm
• Sandra Jansen anchors CTV Newsnet Primetime weeknights from 8pm-12am
• Scott Laurie anchors CTV Newsnet Weekend Primetime weekends from 8pm-12am
• Mike Duffy anchors Mike Duffy Live at 5&8pm
• Cindy Burgess
• Samantha Houston
• Marcia MacMillan
• Marci Ien
• Sandie Rinaldo
• Lloyd Robertson

• David Akin
• Denelle Balfour
• Todd Battis
• Avis Favaro
• Robert Fife
• Alan Fryer
• Sarah Galashan

• Jed Kahane
• Lisa LaFlamme

• Jill Macyshon
• Peter Murphy
• Craig Oliver
• Roger Smith
• Larry Stout
• Kathy Tomlinson
• Rosemary Thompson
• John Vennavally-Rao

• Steve Chao
• Tom Clark
• Tom Kennedy
• Janis Mackey Frayer
• Joy Malbon
• Matt McClure
• Murray Oliver
• Graham Richardson
• Linda Sims

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