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**CBC News Network** (formerly **CBC Newsworld**) is a Canadian English-language specialty news channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). It broadcasts into over 10 million homes in Canada. As Canada's first all-news channel, it is the world's third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in the United States and Sky News in the United Kingdom.

It is funded by cable subscriber fees and commercial advertising. Unlike the CBC's main television network, the channel cannot directly receive operational funds from the corporation's public funding allotment—although it does benefit from synergies with other CBC services, such as the ability to share reporters and programs with the main network.

CBC News Network's French-language counterpart is RDI, also owned by the CBC (or, Société Radio-Canada in French).

## Revenue

According to the 2014 "Communications Monitoring Report" by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), CBC Newsworld in 2014 had 11.3 million subscribers and a revenue of $86.7 million.

## History

With CNN already being widely available in Canada during the 1980s, private and state-owned Canadian broadcasters began to apply for a licence for a similar 24-hour news service in Canada. In 1987, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) awarded a licence to the CBC.

The launch of CBC's 24-hour news service was delayed several times: first when Allarcom, who had filed a competing application for an all-news channel, chose to appeal the CRTC decision; second, when the federal cabinet issued a directive to the CBC to revise its service plan for the network to include private commercial broadcasters and to launch a parallel French language service; and lastly, when cable companies were reluctant to add the service just five months after a similar launch of numerous other channels.

CBC Newsworld finally began broadcasting on 31 July 1989 from several regional studios in Halifax, Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary, becoming Canada's first all-news channel. (As of 2017, there are production studios in Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax.)

In the 1990s, the channel also aired repeats of CBC Television's political sketch comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Royal Canadian Air Farce, but these were discontinued in 2001 after a CRTC directive that the shows did not qualify as news programming.

In 2000, because of a fee dispute between Persona (then known as Regional Cablesystems; later acquired by Eastlink) and the CBC, CBC Newsworld was dropped by a number of Persona-owned cable systems. Thereafter, while CBC Newsworld was sometimes thought to be a mandatory basic cable channel, these cable systems did not carry the channel at all during much of the 2000s.

### Newsworld International

Some of CBC News Network's programming also aired on the now-defunct Newsworld International, an American cable news network co-owned by the CBC and the Power Corporation of Canada. CBC Newsworld (as it was then known) produced some programming for Newsworld International, and scheduled programming from other news networks like Britain's BBC World, which did not air on the Canadian channel.

Soon after, Newsworld International was sold to USA Networks in 2000, then to Vivendi Universal Entertainment in 2001, and then to Al Gore and Joel Hyatt in 2004. Newsworld continued to provide the network's programming until Gore and Hyatt launched their own network, Current TV, on 1 August 2005. In 2013, the channel was sold again to the Al Jazeera Media Network and became Al Jazeera America on 20 August 2013.

### 2009 re-launch

In December 2008, it was reported that the CBC planned to revamp Newsworld in 2009, as the result of a strategic review and market survey. The CBC found that consumer awareness of CBC Newsworld was lower in comparison to other specialty channels, and there was a perception that the CBC broke stories too slowly. Tentative plans also called for the revamped channel to have more prominent displays of news headlines and weather reports.

On 21 October 2009, it was announced that CBC Newsworld would be renamed CBC News Network on October 26 as part of a larger re-launch of the CBC News division. A new lineup of programs was introduced to the network, with a greater emphasis towards live news coverage.

### CBC News Network HD

In January 2009, the CBC launched an HD simulcast of CBC News Network (then CBC Newsworld) called CBC Newsworld HD. The channel was renamed CBC News Network HD on 26 October 2009 to coincide with the renaming of CBC Newsworld to CBC News Network. The HD feed has been confirmed at 720p resolution on Shaw Cable after it was added to the lineup in 2014. It is available through all major television providers in the country.

## Programming

CBC News Network used to air a number of magazine-style programs, along with hourly news updates. The network has moved from that style of programming to focusing solely on live news programs and documentary programs, including The Passionate Eye and Rough Cuts, both formerly hosted by Michaëlle Jean, and Politics, a political affairs program hosted by Rosemary Barton which airs twice daily. The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos was launched in 2005 in an attempt to attract more younger viewers.

At the top of each hour is CBC News: Now, a two minute headline package that features the top news stories.

The network's daytime schedule consists of rolling news programming (branded as CBC News: Morning and CBC News: Today respectively), which air from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET on weekdays, 6 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET on Saturdays and 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET on Sundays (with a two-hour break from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET for a simulcast of CBC News: Sunday). Instead of producing a separate morning news program, most CBC Television stations simulcast CBC News: Morning from 7 to 9 a.m. local time. CBC News: Politics with David Cochrane airs from 5 to 6 p.m. ET, followed by a half-hour simulcast of BBC News at 6 p.m. ET. The business news program CBC News: The Exchange with Peter Armstrong airs twice daily - at 6:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. ET. An hour-long newscast Early Edition hosted by Andrew Nichols airs from 7 to 8 p.m. ET, and is followed by The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos from 8 to 9 p.m. ET. A simulcast of the Atlantic Canadian edition of The National airs on CBC News Network at 9 p.m. Eastern, with the news headline portion repeated at 11 p.m., 12 a.m. and 2 a.m. ET. It is followed by Connect with Mark Kelley from 10 to 11 p.m. ET.

CBC News: Saturday Report is a half hour newscast with the latest national and international news, hosted by Natasha Fatah. It features an lengthy sports highlights segment and regularly showcases current affairs stories on Canadians from all across the country. BBC News airs at 6 p.m. eastern every night; CBC also produces its own show focused on international news.

Some specialty programs, including the literature series Hot Type and the fashion industry news show Fashion File, also air on the network.