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Canada AM is a Canadian breakfast television news show, which has aired on the CTV Television Network since 1972. It was created as a response to the popularity of American morning shows[citation needed] such as Good Morning America and adopted a similar format initially. The program currently airs only on weekdays; however CTV produces a separate weekend program titled Good Morning Canada.
PersonalitiesThe show's current hosts are Beverly Thomson and Seamus O'Regan. Marci Ien reports from the headline news desk and Jeff Hutcheson presents the weather forecast and sports. The show's initial co-hosts were Carole Taylor and Percy Saltzman. Subsequent hosts have included Dennis McIntosh, Helen Hutchinson, Pamela Wallin, Norm Perry (the show's longest-running host, from 1975 to 1990), J.D. Roberts, Dan Matheson, Sandie Rinaldo, Keith Morrison, Valerie Pringle, Rod Black and Lisa LaFlamme. The program also includes breaks in which a local anchor at each station presents a local news update. 2008 format change
In 2008, Canada AM announced a format change which saw the show expand to six hours of live programming between 6 a.m. and noon ET every weekday starting January 28, 2008.[1] Local CTV stations across the country aired Canada AM live between 6 and 9 a.m. local time (7 and 10 a.m. Atlantic Time, 7:30 and 10:30 a.m. Newfoundland Time), while the complete six-hour, live edition aired on CTV Newsnet. Between 6:00 and 6:30 am ET was Early Edition, originally aired only in the Eastern, Atlantic and Newfoundland time zones, while it still aired on CTV Newsnet. The format change was marked by the addition of a second on-air team from CTV B.C. in Western Canada, consisting of host Mi-Jung Lee and weather presenter Rena Heer in Vancouver, and news anchor Omar Sachedina in Toronto. The shift from the Eastern to Western hosting teams took place at 7 a.m. PT (10 a.m. ET). This timing meant that only viewers in Alberta, British Columbia and part of Saskatchewan saw the western team on their local CTV station, although all other Canadians could watch the western team on CTV Newsnet or out-of-market CTV stations carried by cable providers.
On June 6, 2008, CKNW in Vancouver reported the cancellation of the Vancouver-based portions of Canada AM. Biographies of Mi-Jung Lee and Rena Heer were taken off the show's website the same day. CTV announced that it would revert to the program's original format (the additional 6:00-6:30 half hour will continue as well), stating that the decision was in response to viewer feedback from western Canada indicating a preference for the prior format.[2] A few weeks prior, CTV cancelled the extra local news segments that appeared at :00 and :30 minutes past the hour, reverting back to updates only at :25 and :55 minutes past the hour. Current format
Since June 2008, on CTV Newsnet, Canada AM aired for 4 hours from 6:00-10:00 ET (3:00-7:00 PT). CTV B.C. has also reverted back to the original local updates, and CTV Newsnet aired its news in the other two-hour portion. However, because the 9:00 ET edition still aired, the June 2008 version was a combination of both versions.
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In September 2008, the fourth hour of Canada AM was cancelled and replaced with an extra hour of CTV Newsnet with Marci Ien. Canada AM now airs identical versions in every time zone, including Early Edition at 6:00 AM. Theme musicFor several years, in the 1970s and 1980s, the theme music was an instrumental version of The Moody Blues' "Ride My See-Saw", which is from their In Search of the Lost Chord album of 1968. During the same era, CTV's newsmagazine series W5 was using Supertramp's "Fool's Overture". References
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