When Midday took 30-minutes of television time from the regions, CBWT had 30 minutes extra to spare in their budget. 24Hours LateNight was launched in late October, 1985, with anchor Anne Petrie, and alternate anchor Arvel Gray. Ernie Nairn was the sports anchor. Prior to October, 1985 the late evening newscast was called News Final, and prior to that had no title, but was referred to generically as the late local news.
LateNight featured more entertainment items, including live theatre and movie reviews, leaving political coverage to the main supper-hour program.
In the budget cuts of December 1990 and the nationwide introduction of a 90-minute local newscast at 5:30pm, which on CBWT included a 1/2 hour local supper-hour program, 24Hours Talkback, the program was canceled in November 1992. 24Hours LateNight would go back on the air in 1994 following a move back to a 60-minute evening newscast and the cancellation of Talkback, continuing until nationwide budget cuts reduced local evening news coverage and cancelled local late night news in 2000.
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