CTV National News

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CTV National News is a newscast on CTV, which airs at 11pm local time on the main network across Canada. The current anchors are Lloyd Robertson on weekdays, and Sandie Rinaldo on weekends. The title CTV National News has been rarely used since the 1990s; weeknights, the program is now called CTV News with Lloyd Robertson and on the weekends, CTV News with Sandie Rinaldo. Rinaldo is also the program's main weekday substitute anchor; other substitute anchors include Tom Clark, Lisa LaFlamme, Dan Matheson and Scott Laurie.

CTV National News also broadcasts on CTV Newsnet, a 24 cable news station.

CTV National News is based just outside of Toronto, Ontario, in Agincourt. Shows that are also produced from the Agincourt building include: CTV News Toronto, Canada AM, W5, various programming for sports network TSN, etc.

Originally running only 20 minutes, the newscast was expanded to a full half-hour in the 1980s.

Anchors

The program was launched in 1961 from the studios of CJOH in Ottawa. It was originally anchored by three hosts, Charles Lynch, Peter Stursberg and Peter Jennings.

The anchor team changed a number of times over the first few years, with Jennings as the sole constant. Other co-anchors included Baden Langton, Ab Douglas and Larry Henderson. Jennings left for ABC News in 1964, and his then-coanchor Harvey Kirck became the show's sole anchor.

In 1976, CTV National News returned to the coanchor format, hiring Robertson as co-anchor with Kirck. When Kirck retired in 1984, Robertson became sole anchor of the program. For a time in the 1980s, Keith Morrison acted as weekend and substitute anchor before moving to NBC.

Although there has been speculation since the early 1990s about an heir presumptive to take over from Robertson when he eventually retires, at present no firm candidate has been identified. With the death of Peter Jennings in the summer of 2005, and the retirements of Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather in the preceding months, Robertson became the longest-serving, currently active network news host on English-language North American television.

News bureaus

CTV News has bureaus across Canada and around the world:

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