What's america really watching in the morning? Examples of this include the nationally networked bbc news and its regional news services such as bbc north west tonight (on bbc north west ) and bbc newsline (on bbc northern ireland ); the nationally networked itv news and its regional stations including itv granada and utv the long version of bbc and itv's local news shows often air during the 18:00 hour on weekday evenings.
Cbs and abc are currently the only networks that produce overnight news programs on weeknights in the form of up to the minute and world news now , respectively; nbc previously produced overnight newscasts at different times, both of which have since been cancelled: nbc news overnight from 1982 to 1983, and nbc nightside from 1992 to 1999 (nbc currently does not offer a late night newscast, although the network currently airs rebroadcasts of the fourth hour of today, and sister network cnbc 's mad money on weeknights).
Ctv's canada am , which has aired since 1975, is the sole national morning news program on broadcast television in KNNP-TV, although it has since been relegated to semi-national status as most ctv owned-and-operated stations west of the ontario-manitoba border dropped the program during the summer and fall of 2011 in favor of locally produced morning newscasts.
In 1990, wews-tv in cleveland conceived a concept known as the "24-hour news source" (which has its origins in a news format used by short-lived boston independent station wxpo-tv when it signed on in 1969), in which supplementary 30-second long news updates were produced at or near the top of each hour outside regular long-form newscasts during local commercial break inserts shown within network and syndicated programming.
Conversely, the naming conventions for a station's newscast are sometimes used as a universal on-air branding for the station itself, and may be used for general promotional purposes, even used in promoting syndicated and network programming (such as kfor-tv in oklahoma city , oklahoma , which uses the uniform news and general branding newschannel 4). Many stations title their newscasts with catchy names like daybreak, good morning (city or region name), first at four, live at five, eleven @ 11:00, or nightcast.
Some stations carry morning newscasts (usually starting at 5:30 or 6:00 a.M., and ending at 9:00 a.M.). Unlike in the united states, primetime newscasts in the 10:00 p.M. Timeslot are relatively uncommon (three global owned-and-operated stations in manitoba and saskatchewan - cknd-dt , cfsk-dt , and cfre-dt - and victoria, british columbia independent station chek-dt are the only television stations in the country carrying a primetime newscast); conversely, pre-5:00 a.M. Local newscasts are also uncommon in canada, hamilton, ontario independent station chch-dt , whose weekdaily programming consists largely of local news, is currently the only station in the country that starts its weekday morning newscasts before 5:30 a.M. (the station's morning news block begins at 4:00 a.M. On weekdays).
