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Omni News 
Genre News Theme music composer Steve D'Angelo Country of origin Canada Language(s) Various languages Production Location(s) Ontario
British ColumbiaBroadcast Original channel Omni Television Omni News (styled as OMNI News) is the name of national and local newscasts in various languages on the Omni Television system in Canada.
Contents
National
Omni launched half-hour national newscasts in Cantonese, Mandarin and Punjabi in November 2011.[1] The Cantonese and Mandarin broadcasts originate from Toronto, while the Punjabi broadcast is produced out of Vancouver. In addition, Omni News: Mandarin Weekend also airs on Omni.2 Toronto (CJMT-DT), Omni BC (CHNM-DT) and Omni Alberta (CJEO-DT/CJCO-DT).
- Omni News: Cantonese National Edition - weeknights at 5:00 p.m. PT, 9:00 p.m. ET/MT
- Anchor: Stanley So
- Business Anchor: Jason Leung
- Omni News: Mandarin National Edition - weeknights at 8:00 p.m. PT, 5:00 p.m. ET, 9:30 p.m. MT
- Anchor: Wei Lee
- Omni News: Punjabi National Edition - weeknights at 9:00 p.m. PT, 11:00 p.m. ET/MT
- Anchor: Jasdip Wahla
- Omni News: Mandarin Weekend - Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. PT, 6:00 p.m. ET, 5:00 p.m. MT
- Anchor: Grant Guo
Ontario
Intro to OMNI News: Cantonese Edition; newscasts in other languages have the English names of their languages replacing the "Cantonese" in the intro.
Omni News in Ontario began as the local newscasts seen on Toronto's CFMT-TV. Before the station was renamed "Omni.1" in 2002, CFMT aired newscasts in Cantonese, Italian and Portuguese on weeknights. In addition, the station also aired weekly magazine programs Mandarin Wide Angle Lens and South Asian Newsweek.
The station's news operation was restructured into Omni News in conjunction with the 2002 launch of CJMT-TV ("Omni.2"). The Cantonese newscast was moved from CFMT to CJMT, and new Mandarin[2] and South Asian[3] weekday newscasts were also launched on CJMT. The South Asian newscast replaced South Asian Newsweek, while Mandarin Wide Angle Lens was rebranded as Omni News: Mandarin Weekend[2] and is now also seen on Omni BC and Omni Alberta.
The two Omni stations currently air the following newscasts:
- Omni.1
- Omni News: Italian Edition - weeknights at 8:00 p.m.
- Anchor: Vincenzo Somma
- Sports Anchor: Dino Cavalluzzo
- Omni News: Portuguese Edition - weeknights at 9:30 p.m.
- Anchors/Reporters: Clara Abreu, Marzio Lorenzo, Luís Medeiros, Lidia Ferreira
- Former reporters: Joao Vicente, Jose Rodrigues, Gabi Veras, Susan Trindade
- Omni.2
- Omni News: Mandarin Regional Edition - weeknights at 5:30 p.m.
- Anchor: Grant Guo
- Omni News: South Asian Edition - weeknights at 8:00 p.m. (produced in English)
- Anchor: Angie Seth
- Sports Anchor: Khush Panthaky
- Entertainment Reporter: Monica Dogra
- Omni News: Cantonese Regional Edition - weeknights at 9:30 p.m.
- Anchor: Kenneth Li
- Sports Anchor: Alex Chum
- Entertainment Anchor: Carol Jin
- Reporters: Anita Chow, Paul Wan, Tina Tse, Candy Chan
Alberta
Omni News in Alberta was launched in 2008 in conjunction with CJCO-TV in Calgary and CJEO-TV in Edmonton. The two stations produced three nightly television newscasts aimed at the Cantonese, Mandarin, and South Asian communities across the province. While there were news gathering teams in both Edmonton and Calgary, the newscasts were presented from the Citytv/Omni studios in Downtown Edmonton.
Omni Alberta ceased production of its local newscasts on September 15, 2011 as part of a reorganization at Rogers Media. National newscasts in Cantonese, Mandarin and Punjabi, as well as Omni News: South Asian Edition produced from Toronto are now seen on Omni Alberta; these newscasts feature one or two stories from Alberta per day. [4]
Omni Alberta's previous local newscasts are as follows:
- Omni News: Mandarin Edition - weekdays at 5:00pm
- Thomas Deng, Mirian Chiu
- Omni News: South Asian Edition - weeknights at 8:00 p.m. (produced in English)
- Sudha Krishnan, Aadel Halem
- Omni News: Cantonese Edition - weeknights at 9:00pm
- Kit Koon, Jonathan Lau, Kelly Leung, Brian Wong
British Columbia
CHNM-TV in Vancouver, British Columbia produces the following newscasts:
- Omni News: Cantonese Regional Edition - weekdays at 5:00pm with Karen So (蘇嘉欣); weeknights at 11:00pm with Fiona Law (羅穎心)
- Omni News: Mandarin Regional Edition - weeknights at 8:30pm with Bowen Zhang (張博)
- Omni News: Punjabi Edition - weeknights at 9:00pm with Jasdip Wahla (ਜਸ੍ਡਿਪ੍ ਓਹ੍ਲ)
CHNM's newscasts were known as Channel M News from 2003 to 2008. During those years, the station also had a reciprocal agreement Vancouver's CTV station CIVT-TV, which allowed the two stations to share news resources.[5] The station's newscasts were rebranded Omni News in September 2008 following the approval of its sale to Rogers, and its news sharing agreement with CIVT also ended.
The station also used to produce newscasts in Korean and Tagalog. Following the station's acquisition by Rogers, production of those newscasts were handed over to independent production companies.
See also
References
- ^ "OMNI TV Launches National Newscasts". Broadcaster. http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/omni-tv-launches-national-newscasts/1000664369/. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
- ^ a b "OMNI.2 Introduces New Half-Hour Mandarin Language Newscast Every Weeknight". Omni Television press release. http://www.omnitv.ca/ontario/info/press/p_20020815.shtml. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
- ^ "OMNI.2's New One Hour South Asian Newscast to Air Daily in Prime Time". Omni Television press release. http://www.omnitv.ca/ontario/info/press/p_20020909.shtml. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
- ^ "Rogers Closes OMNI TV Edmonton and Calgary Studios". mediamag blog. http://mediamag.ca/blog/2011/09/24/rogers-closes-omni-tv-edmonton-and-calgary-studios/. Retrieved 2011-10-01.
- ^ "Multi-TV". Vancouver Courier. http://archive.vancourier.com/issues07/013107/news/013107nn1.html. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
External links
Categories:- Omni Television
- Canadian news television series
- Omni News: Cantonese National Edition - weeknights at 5:00 p.m. PT, 9:00 p.m. ET/MT
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