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We like our morning shows live and local in Canada :grinning_face:. It doesn’t have to be fancy and high budget, but it needs to be live (or up to date) especially in this day in age and have locals who have a good presence on TV.

Plus I don’t think CTV can be bothered to update Your Morning if it was tape delayed for the west coast - especially since it’s “Bell Media Studios” that produces the show and not “CTV News”.

In regards to local imagery in the opens, I was hoping to see more local images used. The only local shot appears at the end when the logo resolves on screen.

CFRN-DT - “Your Morning Edmonton” 6 AM open (September 15, 2025)

The only CTV Morning Live/Your Morning broadcasts that were amalgamated were the ones for Regina and Saskatoon - CTV in Saskatchewan is essentially a provincial service now with the exception of the 5 PM news in Yorkton and Prince Albert, and the 6 PM news for Regina and Saskatoon. All the other local morning news on CTV have remained.

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I’m surprised they haven’t disappeared and went the way of Swift Current.

For those who don’t know, Swift Current used to have a TV station, CJFB, which was a CBC affiliate. The local family that owned it sold it/passed it on to the CBC and that became a repeater of CBKT(?). They were closed with the digital transition.

Yorkton and Prince Albert used to have CBC affiliates and O&O repeaters too - twinsticks with the CTV stations.

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I thought the Prince Albert newscasts went away based on CTV’s own TV listings, but it turns out they just weren’t uploading the newscasts to their website for a few months. In fact, both CIPA Prince Albert and CICC Yorkton’s transmitters have been upgraded to digital TV.

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Here is how all the CTV Morning Live broadcasts marked their last name with that branding


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And staying with CTV, CTV Montreal has followed Global Montreal in using a virtual set for their newscasts (it’s actually the studio used for “Les dĂ©batteurs de Noovo” on their sister network Noovo.)

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former Canada AM anchor Beverly Thompson has died;

Remembering legendary Canadian journalist Beverly Thomson

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Turning to Spain - arguably


EITB, the Basque Country public broadcaster, updated their newscasts last week.

This is the title sequence to Teleberri (the Spanish newscast at 3/9pm on ETB 2). Gaur Egun, the 2/8pm Euskera-language bulletin on ETB1, has the same sequence:

The supers changed from a boxy Franceinfo (2018-24) lookalike, to a centred one that’d probably suit RTVE more, as seen in ETB1’s breakfast show, Egun On:

Headlines:

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Supers in live crosses:

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Teleberri also got a new set:

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Meanwhile, TV3 Catalunya debuted a new news brand - 3CatInfo, a merger between TV3’s news channel 3/24, their radio counterpart Catalunya Informació, and online portals.

Digitally, they did what other public broadcasters did: A revamped app, newsletters, podcasts and Whatsapp/Telegram channels.

In addition to a new consistent branding across newscasts, the TV channel got a new set, with monolith screens, robotic cameras and whatnot:

This is the transition to 3catinfo before their 9pm news. The latter’s focus is now on in-depth reporting:

Opening to the 10pm panel show, now MĂ©snit:

The breakfast show is now in the same style as other main newscasts. Getting retro with the stripes animation too:

Intro to the regional newsmagazine - the news channel would get the whole opening completely silent:

And afternoon news with a new presenter pair, functions as a daytime news roundup:

The radio side wasn’t thrilled, though. As they now need to accommodate TV output into radio and vice versa (it was proposed that TV will simulcast with radio from 5 to 8pm, and radio’s overnight programming will be TV repeats), it may limit their capability of breaking news stories, plus the loss of two pre-existing news brands.

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Which will explain why
 (Google-translated)

This decision caused a lot of discomfort among the workers, who warned that the television language was different from the radio, and that it could give rise to confusion and problems with the format. Following the doubts, sources at 3Cat confirmed to VilaWeb that, in the end, its launch had been delayed, and that it was all part of a process in which they were doing tests and studying what the best solution was.

The station has renamed 3catinfo Radio, but it is staying put with the current radio schedule.

There will be a solution. Whether it works in practice depends on breaking news timing, maybe.

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Sounds like the local station for Berri.

Yes I know it’s WIN SA. Don’t care. :rofl:

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Currently relocated to Canada - observation hands down the worst tv news options I have ever seen tried watching all from CTV to CBC and global from 1980s style bland presentation,sets and graphics to presenters/reporters with zero personality. Many comments across this platform from some that sets and look does not matter well I’m sorry it does. I have resorted to YouTubing news from Australia,US and Uk.

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I’ve never understood that thinking either. If sets and looks didn’t matter then a) forums like this simply wouldn’t exist and b) networks wouldn’t spend millions on sets and graphics. You need both - the presentation puts the content into context. Obviously it doesn’t all have to be flashy graphics and sets but it should at least look good. Sadly a lot of networks can’t even manage that.

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Agree Canadian news is dreadful. Bizarrely trapped in the 80s: sets, presentation and in particular whenever I’m there I think the fashion of the reporters is so noticeably outdated and off-trend. Gives it all an anchorman-esque quality.

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TV5 Monde’s total makeover, presented by GĂ©dĂ©on.

New logos depending on the region:

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Some of the idents/promos:

New studio and graphics for news:

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Honestly, I feel like it’s true that there’s a lot of Canadian culture that feels stuck in 80s stylings, not just TV news :stuck_out_tongue:

I think the CBC usually looks okay. I like the minimal look of the National. I also enjoy watching the webseries About That with Andrew Chang. CTV always looks like the trappings of US local TV news from 20 years ago, and Global just looks cheap and bad with their virtual sets and hubbed news operation.

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Somehow CP24 also exists in the same country.

Not that anyone complains because its “enriched screen” is pretty much engrained in the city.

I have several problems with it, but it’s fine for what it’s worth.

Its last graphic package refresh was 13 years, 11 days ago.

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It also shows how confused the branding all got, I wouldn’t believe CityPulse’s old branding if someone described it without seeing it for myself, but then the spinoff CP24 ended up disconnected from that ownership, and now CityPulse itself is probably the cleanest and most modern looking from the networks (or systems? I don’t know, Canada’s weird).

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Ownership cap is the reason. Bell continued to maintain control of the channel, which forced a change from Citytv to CTV.

If you need a refresher, here’s all the “enriched screen” looks.

(L-R) 1998, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2012.

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French MS counterpart Lenodal had a complete write-up on the creative process BEFORE TV5Monde’s big rebrand:

An interesting takeaway was that they brought back the in-vision continuity to add a bit of human touch. I feel like a lot of broadcasters have been/are doing the opposite, so it’s a fresh (or nostalgic for some) change in the logic!

Oh and to bring it back to news pres, here are their other news offerings (Le Journal International and Le Journal Afrique):

Meanwhile, new music, graphics and (sort of) branding to Rai News 24 in Italy, as a red cropped numeral is introduced as the secondary symbol in their programme titles and supers, alongside CNN-ish rounded rectangles.

The numeral and animation have some potentials, but the surrounding elements are inconsistent between the squares in the channel ident and rounded rectangles in the supers, plus the cropped symbol and animation versus the headline sequence that used none of that. Heck, even older ad bumpers were seen in some breaks:

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I’d take old bumpers over whatever these are.

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Program name on top, constant 24 on the bottom. Some geniuses thought viewers would enjoy that hierarchy.

Note that all Italian rolling news channels have 24 in their names. Might as well adopt it everywhere.

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AMBER alert (called differently as seen below) overriding the tickers of French news channels.

This is done all across the board and the only modification is to each channel’s branding.

First for BFMTV and LCI since new packages debuted in August.

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