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CTV are re-doing their local news promos to fall in line with their recent network refresh. Is a news rebrand incoming? I sincerely hope not, their current graphics are too good.

Timestamp is 17:08 for those who are wondering. By the way, Global Toronto is making some changes to its morning lineup. Jennifer Valentyne, the former Citytv host who recently joined sister radio station Q107, is now joining Antony Robart from News Final in a reboot of Global Toronto's local morning news program newly named Global News Morning, bringing the Toronto affiliate in line with their regional colleagues' naming schemes (and reusing a broadcast title they dropped 15 years ago). Jeff McArthur and Carolyn MacKenzie, the now-former hosts of the local Toronto program, will continue to host the nationally televised "The Morning Show", which remains unaffected.

And here it is...

Yeah, that's what I thought too. I found this particularly surprising considering that the news division was short on resources and revenue for a pretty long time...like for more than 15 years now. I guess Rogers found some extra cash after gutting out some auxiliary staff, and in turn the last remains of a traditional news format after last year's reboot.

Citytv Toronto just teased a promo for their upcoming news chopper on their 6pm newscast! It's "coming soon".

Woohoo! We're back on Invision! Question though: Will a dark theme be also addressed?

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

Ah yes, Fox is a big hit with the 54+ demo.

Oh man, how was this missed? CHCH launched their graphics in 2014, long before Spectrum. Intro's like night and day.

The new Tegna websites are boring. It's void of any colour, the hamburger menu is garbage, and the typography is a mess. This template make that shady news site you found on Facebook site look legitimate. Also, it appears the white knob in KUSA's video player got Tegna'ed. One of these days you just gotta ask: why?

I guess there's a different vibe. The studio is located at Sugar Beach, practically at the waterfront... so it's relatively calm if anything. I would assume the people there are already intimated by the large studio lights and equipment and naturally they would stay away. Furthermore, Citytv back in the ChumCity era operated newscasts and other events with open windows facing the busy downtown area of Queen and John... with minimal disruption. . -- An update to that thread by the way, Global Toronto's newscasts returned to the Don Mills headquarters the following week. There were no changes.

Here's 10 more images; made a separate post due to TVNT's image cap.

All this week, Global Toronto is broadcasting the evening news from their waterfront Corus Quay studios. No more greenscreen...for now.

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History made. Peter Mansbridge has finished anchoring his last news telecast with the CBC. His official final broadcast will be tomorrow afternoon during the daytime Canada Day broadcast. [MEDIA=twitter]880972654487973890[/MEDIA] "So, that's The National for this Friday night. For CBC News, I'm Peter Mansbridge. Thanks for watching. Thanks for watching all of these years. It's been a quite the ride for me, but always a privilege to be a part of bringing the national story home to you from wherever that story may be. I can only hope you found it worthwhile too. Goodbye, and good night, from Ottawa." Here's another interview of Mansbridge, from CBC's Heather Hiscox.

The lower atrium of the Canadian Broadcasting Centre (also the home of CBC Sports telecasts) was renamed to commemorate Peter Mansbridge. [MEDIA=twitter]880110974640029696[/MEDIA] You'll also get a nice good listen to the theme of The National playing the background.

You didn't see anything...

Up north... The Toronto Star published a really insightful story on Peter Mansbridge, CBC's chief correspondent and anchor of their flagship news program "The National". It presents a look inside Mansbridge's life after his retirement and CBC's handling of the entire situation. Here's some points I've gathered: - CBC News will have a major graphical and structural revamp this October, "Managers are reverse-engineering every building block — number of stories, length of stories, format, tone, style, visuals, editorial stance, digital footprint, newsgathering flows — in a bid for transformation and, ultimately, relevance in an age of continuous news." - Management and staff are still agonizing over the departure of Mansbridge. "Peter is a huge presence in the organization. And to have that gone, we’re really going to feel it. It’s going to be hard," echoed by a CBC Radio host. - Mansbridge purposely did not attend internal meetings regarding the future of The National, probably to avoid influence. Furthermore, during these meetings "one anchor, multiple anchors and even no anchors" were considered as possible scenarios. - The National has an average nightly audience of 525k viewers, compared to CTV's 1M. However, The National has an average of 760K streams, daily reach of 314K on Facebook. - Mansbridge really does not like the Rogers/NHL deal considering the CBC doesn't earn any revenue from it. He also doesn't like the constant preempting of his nightly program due to the hockey telecasts. "There is no other network in the world that screws its flagship newscast like the CBC does to The National!" - Broadcasting from the deck of a Coast Guard icebreaker and covering 44 straight hours of the 9/11 attacks are among Mansbridge's top 5 memories with the CBC. It's a interesting read, take a look here.

Oh yeah, they were definitely attempting to mock Hearst's previous designs... ...with Arial... ...sigh.

It's a news music package a fellow Tribune station used. Google it up. All caps won't do justice.

^ this post was nominated for JournoCenter's Not Top 10.

I'm feeling a KTLA Flashpoint vibe from this.

They pulled a FIFA.

The third one is definitely going to be used for the next sweeps.