First at 4:30: CTV Vancouver Island launches live, hyper-local newscast
The CTV Vancouver Island newsroom is taking a new approach to delivering news to islanders, launching a live newscast weekdays at 4:30 p.m.
Traditionally, Canadian television stations stick to the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. timeslots for the biggest stories of the day, but the expansion of news availability on multiple platforms has news consumers growing accustomed to accessing content 24 hours a day.
“CTV Vancouver Island is the number one news website on the island, with consistently more unique visitors than any other local newsroom,” says Stuart Adamson, the station’s News Director and Manager of Operations.
“We recognize that islanders are connecting with our content in a big way, and we want to make it even more convenient for them to access it, on all of our platforms.”
Adamson goes on to say the island’s unique lifestyle presents an opportunity for broadcast news delivery outside of the traditional timeslots.
“Greater Victoria’s workforce, demographics, viewing habits and varying industries, combine to make this in many ways an “early city,” with traffic picking up in the 4 p.m. hour and people arriving home at 4:30 p.m., ready to see what they missed during the day.”
The newsroom’s core group of reporters will cover Greater Victoria and all of Vancouver Island, delivering content for Vancouver Island’s #1 website and the new hyper-local newscast. It will be anchored out of the CTV Vancouver Broadcast Hub, by longtime islander Andrew Johnson.
Johnson joined the Vancouver Island news team in 2007 and departed CTV Vancouver Island in 2022, to join the team at CTV Vancouver, after 14 years in the island newsroom.
“I’m excited to be making a return to the island market,” says Johnson, who also co-anchors CTV Vancouver’s 5 p.m. newscast alongside Nafeesa Kareem. “I now have the best of both worlds, serving both of the cities I continue to call home”.
The new hyper-local newscast launches Monday, June 19 at 4:30 p.m., with the program airing again at 6 p.m. for anyone who can’t tune in earlier. We look forward to continuing to serve our local audience and hope you will join us.
CTVNews.ca Top Stories
Parents of infant who died in wrong-way crash on Ontario's Hwy. 401 were in same vehicle
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has released new details about a wrong-way collision in Whitby on Monday night that claimed the lives of four people.
Three Quebec men from same family father hundreds of children
Three men in Quebec from the same family have fathered more than 600 children.
B.C. mayor stripped of budget, barred from committees over Indigenous residential schools book
A British Columbia mayor has been censured by city council – stripping him of his travel and lobbying budgets and removing him from city committees – for allegedly distributing a book that questions the history of Indigenous residential schools in Canada.
OPP's mandatory alcohol screening during traffic stops 'not acceptable': CCLA
A spike in impaired driving-related collisions has caused Ontario’s provincial police to begin enforcing mandatory alcohol screening (MAS) at all traffic stops in the Greater Toronto Area -- a move one civil rights group says is ‘not acceptable.’
Maple Leafs down Bruins 2-1 to force Game 7
William Nylander scored twice and Joseph Woll made 22 saves as the Toronto Maple Leafs downed the Boston Bruins 2-1 on Thursday to force Game 7 in their first-round series.
Jurors in Trump hush money trial hear recording of pivotal call on plan to buy affair story
Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president.
Southern Alberta store broken into by burly black bear
Staff at a small southern Alberta office supply store were shocked to find someone had broken into the business last week, but they were even more confused when they discovered the culprit was a bear.
Captain sentenced to 4 years for criminal negligence in fiery deaths of 34 aboard scuba boat
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in custody and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel.
New scam targets Canada Carbon Rebate recipients
Fake text message and email campaigns trying to get money and information out of unsuspecting Canadian taxpayers have started circulating, just months after the federal government rebranded the carbon tax rebate the Canada Carbon Rebate.