October 19, 2009
Dana Brown
The Hamilton Spectator
(Oct 19, 2009)
Global National will be showcasing Hamilton on its evening newscast today, as the broadcast goes live from Gore Park.
And Hamiltonians are welcome to head down to the core and watch.
Anchor Kevin Newman said the city is one of three municipalities in Ontario the show is visiting on a series of road trips.
It has already made a jaunt to Kitchener-Waterloo for Oktoberfest and will also stop by an eastern Ontario city in the future.
"Hamilton we're coming to because it's a good example of ... an industrial city that has tried to transform itself," Newman said.
"And there are plenty of other places during this recession that have faced the problems that Hamilton faced a little bit earlier. So ... things we're going to look at are examples of how Hamilton is, through the McMaster Innovation (Park) and things, trying to see the economy of the future."
This is the first time the newscast, which sets out to broadcast from different parts of the country each fall, has gone live from Hamilton. Global's parent Canwest owned Channel 11 in Hamilton, but sold in August.
The Gore Park broadcast will feature a story on Hamilton's waterfalls.
"We're going to use that to sort of surprise the rest of the country ... they have pre-conceived notions of what Hamilton is like and we're going to show them all the pretty places that they may not know."
The newscast begins at 5:30 p.m. Spectators are asked to be at Gore Park by 5 p.m.
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