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Originally Posted by acottawa
American cities have more crime, more local politics and way more interest in high school sports, so that fills more time. I am not sure there are enough interesting stories to fill a daily newscast in most cities in Canada.
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We have plenty of local politics in Canada that get almost no media coverage at all. I really notice this in BC; there is substantially less coverage of city hall in Vancouver and surrounding municipalities in Vancouver-area media compared to what Toronto media reports on Toronto's City Hall. It is extremely rare to ever see city council meetings in New Westminster, Burnaby, Coquitlam, or Richmond mentioned by any of our media. The one exception is Surrey, which I think gets more coverage than Vancouver - but that's somewhat due to some of the scandals and drama involving their mayor, as well as the planned transition of local policing from the RCMP to a new local force.
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Originally Posted by hipster duck
Even before the pandemic, one thing I noticed from the National's coverage was the gradual disappearance of business news.
About 10 years ago, they used to have about 5-10 minutes of nightly reporting from Bay Street, they'd usually have a ticker to show how the major stock indices did that day, or the value of the CAD, and they'd usually have a panel discussion anchored by Amanda Lang with senior economists from the major banks. Now there's practically nothing.
Are people just not interested in business news? Is this a generational thing?
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Originally Posted by esquire
It hadn't occurred to me until you mentioned it, but yeah, you don't see the likes of Robert Scully or Fred Langan doing business coverage on the CBC main network's news shows anymore. I guess they've shunted that off to the news network now, but even then the person who I believe is their lead business correspondent, Jeannie Lee, doesn't get a ton of airtime.
I can only imagine that someone looked into it and realized that the people most interested in that sort of thing were getting their news from other, more specialized sources anyway. It's the same way with sports... the local 6 pm CBC news here used to include a 12 minute daily rundown of everything happening in the sports world. Now it's limited to telling you whether the Jets or Bombers are playing that day, or if they won or lost the night before. That's it. They know anyone who wants more details is going to TSN.
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Not just The National, but CBC News Network as well. They used to cover business news very well 15-20 years ago (as CBC Newsworld).
With regards to sports, TSN and Sportsnet cover the NHL, Blue Jays, and other major leagues reasonably well. Local sports get very poor coverage nowadays, CBC or otherwise.
There are a couple exceptions - Global BC, Global Edmonton, and Global Calgary continue to have full sports departments and put out full sportscasts every day. Global BC (by far the most dominant TV news broadcaster in BC) has multiple sports anchors and reporters. They cover the BC Lions, Vancouver Canucks, Vancouver Whitecaps, Vancouver Canadians (baseball), and even the Seattle Seahawks far more than what you get from TSN and Sportsnet. They also give some coverage to the WHL and other minor hockey leagues. More than likely they have kept this up because the national sports channels have a perception of being Toronto-centric; whether that's true or not is another discussion, but if there's something people outside Ontario don't like, it's constant coverage of the Toronto Maple Leafs. From what I understand, BCTV (Global BC)'s news department has long taken a stand of filling in a regional gap from what national broadcasters out east provide.
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