Omni News
| Omni News | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | News |
| Theme music composer | Steve D'Angelo |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language(s) | Various languages |
| Production | |
| Location(s) |
Ontario British Columbia |
| Broadcast | |
| 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.
In most cases, while the spoken language is as indicated below, graphics and headlines are shown only in English.
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).
As of June 2013, the only remaining national newscast is the Punjabi edition.
- Omni News: Cantonese National Edition - weeknights at 5:00 p.m. PT, 9:00 p.m. ET/MT
- Anchor: Kenneth Li
- 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: Yuli Hu
Ontario
Omni News in Ontario began as the local newscasts seen on Toronto's CFMT-DT. 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-DT ("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 and was cancelled in May 2013. Mandarin Wide Angle Lens was rebranded as Omni News: Mandarin Weekend[2] and was now also seen on Omni BC and Omni Alberta until its cancellation in May 2013.
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.2
- Omni News: Mandarin Edition - weeknights at 5:00, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.
- Anchor: Grant Guo
- Omni News: Cantonese Edition - weeknights at 5:30, 7:00 and 9:30 p.m.
- Anchor: Tina Tse
- Sports Anchor: Alex Chum
- Entertainment Anchor: Carol Jin
- Reporters: Anita Chow, Paul Wan, Candy Chan
Alberta
Omni News in Alberta was launched in 2008 in conjunction with CJCO-DT in Calgary and CJEO-DT 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] Production of local content at Omni Alberta ended in May 2013. [5]
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-DT in Vancouver, British Columbia produces the following newscasts:
- Omni News: Cantonese Edition - weekdays at 5:00pm/8:30pm with Karen So (蘇嘉欣)
- Omni News: Mandarin Edition - weeknights at 8:00pm/11:00pm with Bowen Zhang (張博)
- Omni News: Punjabi Edition - weeknights at 5:30pm/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-DT, which allowed the two stations to share news resources.[6] 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
- CityNews, the news operation of sister station Citytv
References
- ↑ "OMNI TV Launches National Newscasts". Broadcaster. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "OMNI.2 Introduces New Half-Hour Mandarin Language Newscast Every Weeknight". Omni Television press release. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
- ↑ "OMNI.2's New One Hour South Asian Newscast to Air Daily in Prime Time". Omni Television press release. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
- ↑ "Rogers Closes OMNI TV Edmonton and Calgary Studios". mediamag blog. Retrieved 2011-10-01.
- ↑ "Calgary’s immigrant community dealt a blow with loss of OMNI programming". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
- ↑ "Multi-TV". Vancouver Courier. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
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