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CTV Newsnet
CTV Newsnet is a 24-hour headline news television channel in Canada. It is operated by CTV and owned by Bell Globemedia.
It was originally known as CTV News1, and its anchors sat at a desk which would periodically, while the anchor was not speaking, spin in a circle for dramatic effect. This gimmick was widely mocked, and soon abandoned.
At first, the network's license restricted it to broadcasting the headline news and other informational segments advertisements in a 15 minute "wheel," beginning a new cycle every 15 minutes. The network progressively sought amendments to this condition to allow greater coverage of breaking news, longer-form news-oriented discussion, and other programming, and was met with mixed decisions from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. On April 7, 2005, the Commission removed previous conditions mandating a 15 minute news cycle, substituting new but much more liberal conditions. [1] (http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2005/db2005-131.htm)
The channel is seen as the Canadian counterpart to CNN Headline News.
External link
- CTV News website (http://www.ctv.ca/generic/generated/news/TopStories.html)
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