Election night projections the networks got wrong
Rigueur, rigueur, rigueur. Those words were uttered by TVA’s Pierre Bruneau on election night in 2007, after Radio-Canada had earlier incorrectly projected that Liberal leader Jean Charest had lost his...
View ArticleNFL will push local CTV newscasts to 7:30pm Sundays this fall
The scheduling conflict was obvious the moment Bell Media announced last December that it was picking up Sunday afternoon NFL games at 4pm from City: If the games go from 4pm to 7pm (or 7:30pm), then...
View ArticleCTV News Montreal set gets refresh with video walls
If you’ve been watching CTV News Montreal this week — and ratings data suggest you probably have — you may have noticed something new: monitors installed behind the anchor desk on either side of the...
View ArticleCatherine Sherriffs isn’t coming back to CTV Montreal
Catherine Sherriffs, who left her job as late-night anchor at CTV Montreal a year ago to go on maternity leave, is not coming back. Sherriffs, who was given the anchor chair in 2011 after Debra Arbec...
View ArticleCTV Montreal moves Sunday evening newscasts online during NFL season
With CTV having the rights to 4pm Sunday NFL football games starting this season, the network is forced (or, well, is forcing itself) to pre-empt its local 6pm newscast on Sundays until mid-January for...
View ArticleEric Thomas is the newest face on CTV Montreal sports desk
The hiring of Chantal Desjardins as Sportsnet’s Montreal correspondent has shortened the depth chart at CTV Montreal’s sports desk, so someone at the station had the brilliant idea to just grab the guy...
View ArticleAndré Corbeil leaves CTV Montreal as job cuts reduce station’s workforce by 12
André Corbeil, a sports reporter/anchor at CTV Montreal, surprised a few people late last week announcing via Twitter that it was his last week at the station. Corbeil’s job was eliminated as part of a...
View ArticleCTV Montreal GM Louis Douville swept out in next wave of Bell Media purge
A dramatic top-down purge at Bell Media, that swept out top executives Phil King (programming), Chris Gordon (radio and local TV), Adam Ashton and Charles Benoit (top man in Quebec) in August, then...
View ArticleCTV, Global appoint Quebec City bureau chiefs
It’s not just the Quebec government that pushed through some labour deals just before Christmas. This week both CTV and Global filled their vacant Quebec City bureau chief positions. Au revoir...
View ArticleCTV adding 5pm local newscasts nationwide this fall
Hot off the heels of Rogers announcing new evening newscasts in all its City markets (except Saskatchewan), Bell Media announced today it is also expanding local news across the country, adding 5pm...
View ArticleCTV Montreal cancels local sportscasts, lays off Randy Tieman, Brian Wilde,...
Last updated July 2 with videos of Tieman and Wilde from Impact game. Staff at CTV Montreal were informed this morning that there will be no more locally-produced sportscasts at the station, and that...
View ArticleFirst look: CTV News Montreal at 5
For the past two weeks, CTV Montreal has had an additional hour of local news on weekdays. First announced in June, the new newscasts precede the usual 6pm news on most CTV stations, including...
View ArticleReview: Municipal election night on English-language TV
I was busy last Sunday night, helping the Montreal Gazette put together its coverage of the Montreal municipal election. But my PVR recorded the broadcasts of three English-language television stations...
View ArticleCTV Montreal lays off executive producer Barry Wilson, CHOM drops Picard
Updated Nov. 16 with comment from Wilson, and news of other cuts. Barry Wilson is no longer an employee of Bell Media. The executive producer of CTV Montreal, who viewers saw once a week during his...
View ArticleCTV Montreal adds local news updates to Your Morning (UPDATED)
Of Montreal’s three English-language local TV stations, CTV is the only one without any local programming. Starting Monday, they fix that with the addition of local news updates to the Toronto-based...
View ArticleBarry Wilson returns with his Postscripts on YouTube
Barry Wilson said he wasn’t ready to retire when he was laid off in November. And on Friday he showed it by launching a YouTube version of his Postscript political opinion series. The first video,...
View ArticleReview: A mostly flawless election night for 2/4 English TV networks
Election nights are always fun. All hands on deck, at night on the tightest of deadlines, working together to report on the story of the year. Each medium has its own challenges, but TV has the highest...
View ArticlePaul Karwatsky leaves CTV Montreal to devote himself to autism awareness
After taking a leave from his job long enough to have people wondering about his status, Paul Karwatsky has decided to leave his job as anchor at CTV Montreal to focus on autism awareness, a subject...
View ArticleCJAD guts newsroom, CTV Montreal cuts Quebec City job as Bell Media cuts hit...
CJAD has laid off virtually all its reporting staff as recent cuts at Bell Media, starting at the very top with the departure of president Randy Lennox, filtered down to the local station level on...
View ArticleNatasha Hall, Mose Persico, Lise McAuley among Bell Media cuts in Montreal
Updated March 24 with more details. Two weeks after BCE announced it was abolishing 4,800 jobs, we’re starting to learn how those losses are trickling down to the local level. In Montreal, CTV News was...
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