News Operation
The station currently produces a total of 38 hours of local newscasts each week, with 7 hours on each weekday, and 1½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays.
At its launch as VTV, the station operated news bureaus in Victoria, North Vancouver, Burnaby, Port Coquitlam, Surrey and Richmond, alongside its main studio in Downtown Vancouver. Most of these bureaus were closed by 2001, with the exception of the one in Victoria (which operates to this day). On the other hand, the station added bureaus in the Fraser Valley and Okanagan, and also operated a bureau in Whistler in the run-up to and during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
On November 23, 2009, CIVT began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition in a newly renovated studio, starting with its 5 p.m. newscast; becoming the first station in Metro Vancouver to produce its local newscasts in HD, and the fourth in Canada after Toronto-based stations CITY, CBLT and CFTO, as well as CTV's national news programming such as Canada AM and CTV National News.
On March 18, 2010, CIVT unveiled a new set for its news broadcasts, using elements from the set built by CTV for its coverage of the 2010 Olympic Games. CIVT's newsroom was redesigned using the news desk, interview area and large screen monitors that were previously installed in the International Broadcast Centre.
On December 7, 2010, Bill Good and Pamela Martin announced their resignation as anchors of the 6 p.m. newscast. Mike Killeen and Tamara Taggart were announced as their replacements the next day, and began presenting on January 3, 2011.
On October 31, 2011, CIVT debuted an hour-long lunchtime newscast at noon with Keri Adams, who also co-anchors the 5 p.m. newscast with Rob Brown. Two weeks later on November 14, the station debuted a three and a half hour morning newscast under the banner CTV Morning Live. With the latter addition, CFCF-DT in Montreal and CTV's Toronto flagship station CFTO-DT are now the largest CTV owned-and operated stations that have yet to carry weekday morning newscasts.
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