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Originally Posted by Acajack
The CBC doesn't really have local news networks. It has a 6 pm newscast and an 11 pm newscast in a number of markets across the country, and that's it. And a lot of reasonably large markets don't even have local CBC TV news and some of them don't even have local CBC radio.
I'd also disagree that most places in Canada are very well served by private local news outlets.
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I agree with Acajack. In English Canada, some of the very large markets are well served by the private broadcasters, but many other markets are very poorly served. Not counting CBC:
- Ottawa has only one English TV outlet, CTV’s CJOH. There’s no local Global or Citytv.
- New Brunswick does not have an English TV outlet based in that province
- Prince Edward Island does not have an English TV outlet based in that province
- Newfoundland and Labrador has only one English TV outlet, NTV
- Windsor has only one English TV outlet, CTV2 (CHWI)
Other markets don’t even have a local CBC outlet, and in some cases have only one local TV station:
- London - has only a CTV2 station with very little local programming to speak of
- Kitchener - has a CTV station, with at least a decent amount of local programming
- Kelowna - has a Global station (CHBC)
- Northern Ontario - has a single CTV station
Compared to comparable sized markets in the United States, many Canadian cities have very little local news programming available, with or without the CBC.