{{short description|Canadian local television news program}} {{italic title}} '''''24Hours''''' is a one-hour news and [[current affairs (news format)|current affairs]] program that was broadcast by [[CBWT]], the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] [[CBC Television|television]] station in [[Winnipeg]], Manitoba, Canada.
==History== It began on October 5, 1970, (on the same day that [[James Cross]] was kidnapped by the [[FLQ]] in Quebec) and was first broadcast between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.. The original on-air hosts were [[Garth Dawley]] (news), [[Murray Parker (broadcaster)|Murray Parker]] (weather), [[Don Wittman]] and [[Bob Picken]] (sports), [[John Harvard (politician)|John Harvard]] and [[Gerry Haslam]] (interviewer). On occasions, others contributed to the program, namely Heather Hildebrandt (CBC Winnipeg public affairs department) and freelancers Alice Poyser and Per Holting. [[Bill Morgan (producer)|Bill Morgan]] was the producer in the first year,<ref>{{cite news | title = TV information on 24 hours | work = Winnipeg Free Press - New Leisure | page = 12 | date = October 3, 1970}}</ref> and executive producer in the second.<ref>{{cite news |title= 24 Hours returns |work= Winnipeg Free Press |page= 12 |date= July 3, 1971}}</ref>
Starting in the 1977–78 season, ''24Hours'' was moved to a more standard time of 6:00-7:00 p.m., with John Robertson replacing John Harvard as host.<ref>{{cite news | first = Glen | last = MacKenzie | title = CBC spotlight focuses on the new John | work = Winnipeg Free Press | page = 19 | date = June 29, 1977}}</ref>
[[John Harvard (politician)|John Harvard]], who was the program's first interviewer and held the post between 1970 and 1977. He returned the day after the November 1981 Provincial election, and remained until 1986. He interviewed the former interviewer from the 1977-1981 period, John Robertson.<ref>{{cite news | title = Host meets former host on 24Hours: 'You blew it' | work = Winnipeg Free Press | date = November 19, 1981}}</ref>
In September 1982, the chalkboard easel used for the ''24Hours'' weather forecast, regularly provided by [[Murray Parker (broadcaster)|Murray Parker]], was replaced with an electronic [[NAPLPS|Telidon]] system. This was used for about two years when a regular [[Character generator|CG]] system was put in place.
Also in 1982, CBWT was a pioneer within CBC television stations to use [[Betacam]] ENG cameras. Before this, reports were filed on 16 mm film.<ref>{{cite news |first= Marilyn |last= MacKinnon |title= Ferguson regional director |work= Winnipeg Free Press |date= August 12, 1982}}</ref>
In May 1984, Marv Terhoch was appointed director of CBWT of ''24Hours''.<ref>{{cite news | title = CBC appoints Terhoch director| work = Winnipeg Free Press | date = May 25, 1984 }}</ref>
Also between these years, Kevin Evans was the interviewer for ''24Hours'', until the local [[Videon Cablesystems|Videon]] cable system replaced [[KVLY-TV|KTHI]] Fargo with [[WDIV-TV|WDIV]] Detroit; the latter featured [[Mort Crim]] and his style of news and interviewing. To compete with that station, it hired the former ABC correspondent [[Mike McCourt]] who co-hosted the program between September 1986 and 1991.
John Bertrand, who was formerly the editor of the ''[[Winnipeg Sun]]'', was hired as host of the new 5.30–6 p.m. segment, ''24Hours Talkback'', in November 1992. This program was broadcast until 1994 when it was canceled and Bertrand had moved on to [[CBW (AM)|CBC Radio One]] as on-air host of ''Questionnaire''.
On October 2, 2000, as part of nationwide budget cuts and a shift of focus towards reporting of [[geopolitical]] events (war in Iraq and Afghanistan), ''24Hours'' was replaced by a 30-minute program, ''[[Canada Now]]''.
==News history after ''24Hours''== On November 10, 2006, CBWT announced that the [[CKY-TV]] news presenter [[Janet Stewart (broadcaster)|Janet Stewart]] would become the 6 p.m. news presenter at the station.<ref>{{cite news |title= CBC Manitoba's new anchor is a familiar face |work= Winnipeg Free Press |page= A4 |date= November 11, 2006|id= {{ProQuest|752137414}} }}</ref>
On November 30, 2006, CBC announced that it would revert to the pre-2000 early evening news model from February 2007. ''Canada Now'' was cancelled, while local newscasts nationwide once again used an hour-long format.<ref>{{cite news | title = CBC to restore one-hour local news shows, cancel Canada Now | publisher = CBC News | date = November 30, 2006 | url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/cbc-to-restore-one-hour-local-news-shows-cancel-canada-now-1.571589 }} </ref>
CBWT announced on February 2, 2007, that the full hour of local news would return on Monday, February 19, 2007, and that [[Murray Parker (broadcaster)|Murray Parker]] would return as weather person.<ref>{{cite news | title = CBC goes back to future with weatherman Parker | work = Winnipeg Free Press | page = C2 | date = February 3, 2007}}</ref> CBWT's newscast became known as ''[[CBC News at Six|CBC News: Winnipeg at Six]]''. In September 2009, the station's news operations were expanded again with the launch of a 90-minute newscast from 5pm to 6:30pm and, a month later, a late night update following ''The National'' each weeknight.
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