Television WI: CBC adopted Australian ABC's state-based (7 PM) news bulletins

ramones1986

ramones1986

In RL, I occasionally watched ABC News NSW through Australia Network, covering state, national and international news. This format is followed in all states and territories of the Land Down Under.

Egos ago, I watched a clip of CBC Television's Canada Now through the website TVArk. Here's a little story about the newscast, from Wiki:
The program was created to replace the regular supper-hour newscasts on the CBC's owned-and-operated local television stations in 2000, as a result of cuts to the CBC's budget. While initially thought to be a national newscast with limited local inserts, it was later revealed that the program would cover both local and national news as an hour-long newscast divided into two thirty-minute sub-programs. One was national in scope, anchored by Ian Hanomansing at the network's Vancouver studio; the other was regional, varying from station to station, and presented by the stations' local anchors as with the previous local newscasts.

By 2005, the corporation began taking tentative steps towards re-expanding local news programming, with CBNT in St. John's reinstating a full-hour "Here & Now" broadcast in November. CBC made further changes to the early evening news slot in early 2006, with the return of separate local 30-minute newscasts (titled CBC News at Six) in most markets; Canada Now was reformatted as a half-hour program focussed on national and international news shown at 6:30pm. (The original Canada Now format and name continued to be used for the integrated local/national newscast aired on CBUT in Vancouver.)

On November 30, 2006, CBC Television announced that it would cancel Canada Now and expand the local CBC News at Six broadcasts to a full hour in the coming year, thereby reverting to the pre-2000 early-evening news model.Canada Now was last broadcast on February 16, 2007, replaced by the newly expanded CBC News at Six broadcasts on February 19.
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So, here's the question: What if one of the members of the CBC administration (particularly, news and public affairs) went to Australia and noticed ABC's 7 o'clock bulletin while staying in his/her hotel, and decided to adopt it to the Canadian public broadcaster? Will it affect its place in the ratings game... or not?

By the way, the PoD is between 2005 and 2007.

Thanks!
 
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