A low budget TV channel that doesn’t attempt to copy the Canadian Global News. The Romanian one has a globe in the middle of the O and it doesn’t have the “boomerang”.
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Yep! It was actually from 1999-2004
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Ahh, I was close lol
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TV JOJ in Slovakia launched JOJ 24 on FTA last October. Their news open is basically all the cliches you can think of in a news intro: lens, globe, timer for speed, shades of red. The lower thirds look alright though:
There’s also another set with the channel symbol, seen during Czech presidential election (but what’s with the sqaure 24 on the headline?). Per Pres Cafe, this is actually the main set for the channel:
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Staying with Slovakia, RTVS 24 has a new set and graphics package earlier this month, accompanied by a full schedule of specialized programmes:
The new news bulletin open:
We also get to see a newsflash at the top of the screen and the live tag later that day, as the ruling party is holding a press conference following the PM’s recent resignation. They went live until 1330:
Promos for upcoming programmes:
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The province of Alberta in Canada had a general election yesterday. Here is a bit of the Canadian networks’ presentation of the election results.
Global News broke out new network election graphics last night as well.
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This week, BCE, the owner of Bell Media, laid off 1,300 employees in Canada. Many of those worked in Bell Media, the division that owns CTV, TSN, and over 100 radio stations.
One of the more controversial cuts that took place was that CTV National News lost several senior reporters, and the London UK and Los Angeles bureaus have been closed. CTV’s Washington bureau has also been “scaled back” to focus on US stories that affect Canada.
In addition, 6 radio stations were shut down effective Wednesday June 14 without notice. One radio station, TSN 1260 Edmonton, was pulled off the air in the middle of their morning, show, while their radio control room was remotely locked and their signal replaced with a loop announcing the station’s closure.
On top of that, the news operations of CIVI-DT (CTV Vancouver Island) have been decimated. Bell Media laid off the entire production staff, and at least two news anchors, their only weather presenter, and a video journalist at one of their island bureaus. All news presentation will be done from CTV Vancouver. Starting Monday June 19, their 2-hour news block from 5-7 PM will be replaced with a single 30-minute show at 4:30 PM, which will be repeated at 6 PM. The 5 PM Vancouver news will also be simulcast on CTV Vancouver Island (all CTV Vancouver Island newscasts were cancelled for the remainder of the week, with Vancouver news airing on CTV VI).
Bell Media also said they “can’t afford” to continue operating their various brands independently from one another, so we are expecting to see something like the merger of all of Bell’s Toronto news operations (CFTO Toronto, CKVR Barrie, CP24, CTV National News, BNN, NewsTalk 1010 Radio).
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It’s utterly devastating, especially as I have a soft spot for CTV News Vancouver Island. Hopefully CHEK TV will pick up some staff up
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oh why’s that?
the structure of CTV News has always confused me a bit, especially when it was across CTV2 as wel.
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I had a job interview when I was in Victoria a few years ago with them.
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lol shouldn’t you have a grudge for them then over a soft-spot lol
It was an off-the-cuff moment. I was intending to just drop my CV in and the News Director instead decided to have an interview with me right then and there.
I’m grateful he took the time.
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I’m just having a joke mate, it’s ok.
Always sad when local news gets cut, here or overseas.
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Today, ProSiebenSat.1 launched finally a new and common news brand, well sort of… After launching a new in-house effort in January (which I covered here), finally the group’s newscasts were unified into the single Newstime moniker, now styled as :newstime. The changes were announced with little fanfare last week, but the new operation’s digital and social media channels have been named under the ProSieben news brand since the relaunch, hinting a sign of things to come.
“Where ‘:newstime’ is on it, ‘:newstime’ is in it. The brand will be an absolutely reliable source of information for people - up-to-date, fast and on all platforms,” Sven Pietsch, the editor-in-chief of Seven.One Entertainment Group, is certain. The aim is to establish the new brand “:newstime” as a "seal of quality for comprehensible and non-judgemental quality journalism in the German news landscape. “:newstime” will also become the brand on platforms such as YouTube or Instagram.
Although the brand was adopted in all newscasts, each channel retains its own editorial policy: ProSieben has been traditionally more tabloid in style due to its younger demographics, whilst Sat.1 has historically had a more serious tone, with more politics and social affairs, and Kabel 1 has taken the “news-you-can-use” route. However, the service has the same team of reporters and have many of the reports and stories covered in all editions, and plans to further unify resources coming soon.
Despite the same name, the news programmes are to be quite different. Arne Teetz, Editor-in-Chief News: "We are combining our strengths and competencies under the joint brand ‘:newstime’ and will continue to produce different programmes for Sat.1, ProSieben and Kabel Eins, tailored to the respective viewers’ interests, with our own presenters. In the future, however, we will go beyond this and, in combination with our digital distribution channels, will be able to offer an even more comprehensive and uniform journalistic service for everyone at all times.
The launch of the new brand (developed in-house by SevenOne Creative Solutions) is the second phase of the relaunch of the in-house newsroom. The logo and openers really have a Franceinfo feel to it, but the music is just too generic and production music-like. The ugly virtual set design is still there, but there is a new look to it which looks less outlandish to what they had before. Additionally, the normal channel DOGs are now being used during the bulletins.
A further launch phase will come by the end of this year, as a new real studio set is finally put in place, as well as a move to a permanent space in the new ProSiebenSat.1 Campus in Unterföhring, Munich.
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A little underwhelming, especially compared to how Newstime on Pro7 looked before this - but also that’s not surprising when the brand now has to also cover a Sat.1 bulletin that’s set up as a foil to the Tagesschau.
It’s obvious where the comparisons to France Info come from - I guess the one argument in their favour is that the colon motif at least makes sense on a brand named “Newstime”.
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That’s really cool the news director interviewed you on the spot. Victoria is such a pretty city and you probably would have made a great reporter there.
It’s so sad at how Bell just decimated CTV Vancouver Island. There seemed so much promise and potential when they launched. I mean, look at the crowds that gathered on opening day…
Even right before the layoffs, they were a shell of their former self. They had been replaying a chopped-up version of their 6 PM news at 11 PM for a few months up until June 14. CTV was offering this while CHEK was offering a LIVE newscast at 10 PM, and everyone else across the water in Vancouver going live at 11 or 11:30.
Here is the new CTV VI newscast from this past Tuesday (missed the first bulletin on Monday). It airs live at 4:30 PM on CTV VI, from the CTV Vancouver studios & control room by a former CTV VI anchor right before the Vancouver 5 PM news (sort of how 7 and 9 run Gold Coast and Brisbane news back to back from the same control room). Sadly, this bulletin is also replayed at 6 PM and 11 PM on VI, so even references to “First at 4:30” remain on the replays.
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The CTV 2/A-Channel/Newnet stations in Victoria, London, Windsor, Barrie, and Ottawa were sold to CTV by CHUM. As a condition of the sale set out by our broadcast regulator, management and oversight of the local newsrooms were not to be under CTV News, but under the board of CTVglobemedia directly. So technically CTVgm/Bell were running two separate news operations in some markets.
Even when those stations rebranded to CTV2/CTV News, management and oversight was separate. This lives on today, for example, in Ottawa where CJOH (CTV Ottawa) and CHRO (CTV2 Ottawa) are essentially two different operations/news teams/unions even though they work in the same building.
In Victoria’s case, there is still a producer in Victoria putting the rundown together and making editorial decisions. It’s just the actual production and presentation of the newscast has been ‘outsourced’ to CTV Vancouver.
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Well, the launch of The New VI followed the Citytv ethos, much like its sister The NewNet/A-Channel stations, but with differences: first, programming was less edgy and more “AC-tone” in style, but still with many of its traits, including its programming having a conversational style of writing and using lots of close-up and horizontally tilted camera angles; newscasts also went for the CityPulse style, but less edgy and tabloid, with a more suburban feeling and more lighter stories.
Additionally, The New VI had two studios at launch: its main “Pandora’s Box” studio in downtown Victoria and a full-fledged bureau studio in Nanaimo. Its newscasts had boasted a large lineup of personalities, and its evening newscasts were hosted by Tasha Larson, a Nanaimo native which had worked in Calgary at Access and Canadian Learning Television (both CHUM ventures at the time) hitherto, and controversial former BC/NDP minister Moe Sihota.
However, none of these moves helped to establish an audience to the station, as local viewers were loyal to CHEK (now under Asper ownership and as part of the now-defunct CH loose network, or TV system in CRTC parlance); the high-profile hirings left within months and the schedule became heavily reorganized. Until Hudson Mack moved from CHEK to CIVI in August 2004, the station found its audience and became more competitive with its rival, which still had a head start in the ratings. And, by October, the loose CHUM format was dropped in favor of… The Awakening and sauntering anchors. Mack retired from TV news in 2014, but he was not a victim of Bell’s budget cuts.
CHEK is currently thriving as a locally-owned station (the local Sampson family has a large share and the employees do have an equity investment), and has brought some veteran local journalists to its staple, so there’s some possibility it could happen at the short term.
Scott Fee, a longtime anchor during the Canwest era, served as news director until his retirement this last February, whilst the 6pm news was anchored by Ben O’Hara-Byrne (a former CTV/Global world correspondent) until he went to join the world of investment management (he’s now back at Global helming a global affairs show for Corus’ talk radio stations). Fee quickly hired a CIVI veteran, Joe Perkins, to fill the role. And in 2021, Rob Shaw, a longtime Vancouver Sun legislative columnist and reporter, was hired as its first political editor.
Its news programming is quite decent: weekdays at 5, 6 and 10pm (plus daytime news flashes) and an hour-long LIVE weekend newscast at 5pm. The station is also beneficiary of a (controversial) local news funding scheme by the Canadian Government, to which CHEK is elegible because of its “community television” status; however, the money is invested for the coverage of feature stories and other kinds of community issues airing in the newscasts.
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