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I still miss Janet Davies co-anchoring early shows before going out to host New Years Eve. Christmas morning is fun, these days, with Terrell and Phil at 6am, the former on the interview set, a fireplace on the monitors behind him, the latter in his once a year red blazer.

Couple months in now and the set got a mini refresh with the big colored light panels that adorned either side of the home base backdrop being replaced by stone pillars. To me, it's a much better look. The light panels were bare and didn't really add anything of substance to the video wall. The stone brings it out much more.

CTV Movies and CTV Throwback. It was introduced earlier this month as two VOD channel offerings. https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/the-ctv-digital-universe-expands-with-two-new-free-vod-channels---ctv-movies-and-ctv-throwback-701900721.html

A 1995 CNN report about local stations' obsession with crime:

Apparently the building was demolished only a few weeks after they filmed that: the tapes are apparently gone.

World Taekwando Grand Slam Series using a recreation of the previous OBS/Olympics graphics (London/Sochi). Honestly these look better than the original only because they're at least using a font other than Arial Narrow.

Former WABC sports anchor Scott Clark honored

They just had a ~5 minute tribute video. I hope they post the full interviews, but we got in no particular order: Al Primo, Roz Abrams, Geraldo Rivera, John Johnson, Doug Johnson, Sam Champion, Bill Ritter, NJ Burkett, Tim Fleischer, Diana Williams and Jim Dolan basically be the narration of the group. The voices of Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel are the intro and the outro. Also were various shots of the late Will Spens, Gloria Rojas, Milton Lewis

CTV's major brand refresh in almost 20 years has launched today.