CBET-9 Windsor Expanding Early Evening Newscast

[Joseph_Gallant]

Many CBC-owned stations have recently expanded their early-evening local news blocks to 90 minutes, and now, CBET-9 in Windsor will do so starting in September.

The expanded broadcast will air from 5:30 to 7 P.M. EDT/EST on weeknights. It should be a boost to those in Windsor seeking local news since most "local" TV news available to viewers in that city is broadcast from Detroit, and likely has little news from Windsor.

By contrast, I suspect the only way a news story from Detroit will get on CBET is if it's a "huge" story.

While the early-evening newscast is being expanded, a ten-minute local newscast that has aired from 11 to 11:10 P.M. EDT/EST will be discontinued once the early-evening newscast is expanded.

Nevertheless, there will be a net gain of 20 minutes of local news each weekday on CBET.

CBC press release, as reprinted on the Broadcaster Magazine website:

http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/...-at-6-expands-supperhour-newscast/1002423172/ .

 

[FredLeonard]

I am trying to recall when I ever saw anything about Windsor on Detroit's TV news shows.

Still trying.

Still trying.

Trying but nothing's coming.

I head Paul Harvey mention Windsor once. A guy from Detroit was arrested for being drunk and disorderly. When he went to court his defense was he'd seen all those signs saying, "Drink Canada Dry."

Oh, wait. Another time, Ol' Paul pointed out that if you head due South from Detroit, you end up in Windsor.

 

[e-dawg]

Strange....at least in Vancouver....CBC News is from 5-630p and 11-1130p, M-F.

Another thing......as for the history of channel 9 in Windsor.....why didn't CKLW (Owner of RKO General) change their license to Detroit from Windsor?

Also....why didn't WWJ-TV swap analog stations with CBET 9. WWJ-TV would have an advantage of being on Channel 9 vs. Channel 62.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Strange....at least in Vancouver....CBC News is from 5-630p and 11-1130p, M-F.

Another thing......as for the history of channel 9 in Windsor.....why didn't CKLW (Owner of RKO General) change their license to Detroit from Windsor?

Also....why didn't WWJ-TV swap analog stations with CBET 9. WWJ-TV would have an advantage of being on Channel 9 vs. Channel 62.

As far as I know, moving broadcasting allocations across international borders almost never happens, and I can't think of any where an existing station was involved. The only one I've heard of is where Port Huron, MI had an unused Channel 34 allocation for many years, but in 1988 it moved to Sarnia, ON where a CBC rebroadcast transmitter was established.

I doubt the Canadian authorities would ever have allowed a Canadian station to be moved across the border. Likewise with XETV, serving San Diego but always licensed to Tijuana.

 

[TVWorldwide]

Strange....at least in Vancouver....CBC News is from 5-630p and 11-1130p, M-F.

Another thing......as for the history of channel 9 in Windsor.....why didn't CKLW (Owner of RKO General) change their license to Detroit from Windsor?

Also....why didn't WWJ-TV swap analog stations with CBET 9. WWJ-TV would have an advantage of being on Channel 9 vs. Channel 62.

As far as I know, moving broadcasting allocations across international borders almost never happens, and I can't think of any where an existing station was involved. The only one I've heard of is where Port Huron, MI had an unused Channel 34 allocation for many years, but in 1988 it moved to Sarnia, ON where a CBC rebroadcast transmitter was established.

I doubt the Canadian authorities would ever have allowed a Canadian station to be moved across the border. Likewise with XETV, serving San Diego but always licensed to Tijuana.

Didn't KCND in Pembina, ND, essentially move to Winnipeg, where it became CKND? Of course, a move in the opposite direction would have been difficult to imagine.

 

[fybush]

The intellectual property did, but the license did not. The KCND channel 12 license remained in Pembina and was eventually reactivated as KNRR. The CKND channel 9 license was a new Canadian license in Winnipeg, though the licensee, Izzy Asper, acquired KCND's assets (especially its $2 million or so in annual ad revenue) and moved them over to the new CKND.

 

[TVWorldwide]

The intellectual property did, but the license did not. The KCND channel 12 license remained in Pembina and was eventually reactivated as KNRR. The CKND channel 9 license was a new Canadian license in Winnipeg, though the licensee, Izzy Asper, acquired KCND's assets (especially its $2 million or so in annual ad revenue) and moved them over to the new CKND.

Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification! (Love your site, BTW.)

 

[schmave]

I am trying to recall when I ever saw anything about Windsor on Detroit's TV news shows.

Still trying.

Still trying.

Trying but nothing's coming.

I head Paul Harvey mention Windsor once. A guy from Detroit was arrested for being drunk and disorderly. When he went to court his defense was he'd seen all those signs saying, "Drink Canada Dry."

Oh, wait. Another time, Ol' Paul pointed out that if you head due South from Detroit, you end up in Windsor.

I haven't lived where CBET is available in 13 years (when I went to college in Toledo), and on the occasions I did watch the Windsor Evening News, mentions of Detroit or any U.S. news that wasn't mammoth were scant outside sports. Sports segments usually included Tigers, Lions, Pistons and Wings highlights, but often after Spitfires or something else uber-local if it was available. I don't remember Detroit being classified ahead or behind of Toronto teams; usually it alternated IIRC.
Things might have changed. This was way back when Carole MacNeil anchored the evening news. It was evident even then that she had enough talent for the big-time in either Canada or the U.S.
I vividly remember one time when Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky were big news, MacNeil gave a report and then added at the end, "But we don't really care ... we're Canadians, right?" I thought that was unnecessary, but to each their own.

 

[1L6E6VHF]

They can spend what it takes to expand their newscast, but they say they can't budget the cost of less electricity than a typical toaster uses to put an existing transmitter back on the air and bring back SRC on CBEFT (35)?

 

[newsmark]

They can spend what it takes to expand their newscast, but they say they can't budget the cost of less electricity than a typical toaster uses to put an existing transmitter back on the air and bring back SRC on CBEFT (35)?

Maybe their ratings couldn't justify continuing to run even a low power transmitter.

 

[azumanga]

They can spend what it takes to expand their newscast, but they say they can't budget the cost of less electricity than a typical toaster uses to put an existing transmitter back on the air and bring back SRC on CBEFT (35)?

Maybe their ratings couldn't justify continuing to run even a low power transmitter.

That being said, I wonder how many viewers the CBC had in London, Sudbury and Saskatoon, before they close down their repeaters, and if so, how many watched over-the-air, as opposed to cable or satellite.

 

[mjlarochelle]

They can spend what it takes to expand their newscast, but they say they can't budget the cost of less electricity than a typical toaster uses to put an existing transmitter back on the air and bring back SRC on CBEFT (35)?

Maybe their ratings couldn't justify continuing to run even a low power transmitter.

That being said, I wonder how many viewers the CBC had in London, Sudbury and Saskatoon, before they close down their repeaters, and if so, how many watched over-the-air, as opposed to cable or satellite.

For regional news, I would imagine the ratings in London and Sudbury were near zero, since those areas received CBC Toronto's news. I would guess Saskatoon was higher, although to my knowledge both CFQC and Global perform considerably better than CBC Saskatchewan. For all other programming, I'd imagine ratings were similar to other parts of the country.

London's CBC transmitter covered an area of close to 1 million people, though it ratings were probably depressed by its position on UHF. A lot of people I knew in London who used antennas were unaware that any channels existed other than local Channel 10, even in 2006.