A News (TV program)

A News

Formerly	A-Channel News
Industry	Media
Genre	News
Founded	September 1, 1995 (1995-09-01)
Defunct	April 1, 2011 (2011-04-01)
Fate	Renamed to CTV News in 2011
Successor	CTV News
Headquarters	299 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario , Canada
Area served	Southern Ontario and Vancouver Island
Key people	Moses Znaimer, Manager, CHUM Limited Richard Gray, Head of News Department
Owner	CHUM Limited (1995–2007) CTVglobemedia (2007–2011)
Parent	NewNet/A-Channel/A

A News
A News open for all A stations except for CIVI. An additional "Vancouver Island" tag is added for CIVI's open.
Also known as	A-Channel News VRLand News (1995–1999, Barrie) VR News (1999-2005, Barrie) NewsSixOttawa (1997-2005, Ottawa) NewsNow (1997-2005, London, Windsor and Wingham)
Genre	News
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
Production
Production locations	Ottawa, Ontario Barrie, Ontario Southwestern Ontario Victoria, British Columbia
Original release
Network	A
Release	August 2, 2005 (2005-08-02) – August 28, 2011 (2011-08-28)
Related
A Morning CityNews (on Citytv)
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A News (originally known as A-Channel News) is the name of local newscasts on the A television system in Canada owned by CHUM Limited and CTVglobemedia. A News programming was produced in markets which were not directly served by a local CTV News or CityNews service.

The cable-only A Atlantic service in Atlantic Canada did not produce its own A News programming, but instead presently airs CTV News programming from CTV Atlantic, although the station did produce a local morning show, Breakfast Television and was subsequently re-branded to CTV Morning Live on August 29, 2011. Due to the effects of the 2009 economic crisis, the A station in Ottawa cancelled all A News programming in March 2009, but continued to produce a local morning show, A Morning which was also re-branded as CTV Morning Live on August 29, 2011.

Throughout its earlier existence, the newscasts were formatted after its long-standing station, CITY-TV in Toronto in which the anchors read the news standing up and walking around the studio since there were no news desks.

When A re-launched as CTV Two on August 29, 2011, newscasts on the A stations were re-branded as CTV News and longer have separate identities, although the stations have retained the same editorial independence.^[1]