CBC Newsworld

CBC Newsworld
	CBC Newsworld logo
Launched	July 31, 1989
Owned by	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Slogan	Canada's #1 News Network
Country	Canada
Broadcast area	National
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario
Website	CBC Newsworld
Availability
Satellite
Bell TV	Channel 502
Shaw Direct	Channel 390
Cable
Available on most Canadian cable systems	Check local listings, channels may vary

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CBC Newsworld is a Canadian English language cable television specialty news channel owned and operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. It is the world's third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in the United States and Sky News in the United Kingdom.

[edit] History

With CNN already being widely available in Canada, during the 1980s both private and public Canadian broadcasters began to apply for a licence for a similar 24-hour news service in Canada. In 1987 the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) awarded a licence to the CBC, and on July 31, 1989, CBC Newsworld began broadcasting.

CBC Newsworld originally broadcasted from studios in Halifax, Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary, reflecting the coast-to-coast nature of the service. However, budget cuts over the years eventually forced CBC Newsworld to centralize most of its operations in Toronto and Calgary.

Newsworld is funded by cable subscriber fees and commercial advertising. Unlike the CBC's main television network, the channel cannot directly receive operational funds from the corporation's public funding allotment — although it does benefit from synergies with other CBC services, such as the ability to share reporters and programs with the main network.^[1]

Newsworld's French language counterpart is Réseau de l'information (RDI).

While sometimes thought to be a mandatory basic cable channel, there are in fact a number of Persona cable systems that do not carry CBC Newsworld at all. The channel was dropped by these systems in 2000, due to a fee dispute between Persona (then known as Regional Cablesystems) and the CBC.^[2] The channel has since returned to some, but not all, of the company's cable systems.

[edit] Newsworld International

Some of CBC Newsworld's programming also aired on the now-defunct Newsworld International, an American cable news network co-owned by the CBC and the Power Corporation of Canada. However, CBC Newsworld also produced some programming for Newsworld International, and scheduled programming from other news networks, which did not air on the Canadian channel. Newsworld International was sold to Vivendi Universal in 2000, and sold again to Al Gore and Joel Hyatt in 2004. Newsworld continued to provide the network's programming until Gore and Hyatt launched their own network, Current TV, on August 1, 2005.

Newsworld International also carried some news and lifestyle programming from BBC World.

[edit] CBC Newsworld HD

In January 2009, the CBC launched an HD simulcast of Newsworld called CBC Newsworld HD.

[edit] Programming

Newsworld originally aired a number of magazine-style programs, along with hourly news updates. In recent years, the network has moved from that style of programming to focusing solely on live news programs and documentary programs, including The Passionate Eye and Rough Cuts, both formerly hosted by Michaëlle Jean, and Politics, a political affairs program which until late June 2009 was hosted by Don Newman which aired twice daily. The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos was launched in 2005 in an attempt to attract younger viewers.

At the top of each hour is CBC News: Now, a two minute headline package that features the top news stories.

Several of Newsworld's programs also appear on the main CBC network, which is available to most Canadians who own a television. The national morning program, CBC News: Morning, airs on the main CBC network from 6 - 7 a.m. local time (Atlantic Canada excluded). On Newsworld, the program airs from 6 to 10 a.m. Eastern. CBC's midday newscast, CBC News: Today, airs from noon to 1 p.m. local time on CBC Television, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. eastern time on CBC Newsworld. CBC's prime time national newscast The National also airs on CBC Newsworld at 9 p.m. Eastern (on CBC Television, it airs at 10 p.m. local time), with repeats at 11 p.m., 12 a.m., 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.

CBC News: Saturday Report is a half hour newscast with the latest national and international news, hosted by Jacquie Perrin. It regularly showcases current affairs stories on Canadians from all across the country. BBC World News airs at 6 p.m. eastern every night; CBC also produces its own show focused on international news.