News Operation
On November 14, 2009, the station introduced a weekend evening 10 p.m. newscast. In December 2009, longtime anchor Eva Kovacs announced that she will be leaving after nearly twelve years with Global, to work for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority in 2010. Her last day was December 18, 2009 and Shannon Martin was named as her replacement. Her departure came only a few months after lead Weather Anchor, Andrea Slobodian and Reporter, Meera Bahadoosingh, left for Shaw TV Calgary and Winnipeg, and Nightwatch Reporter/Anchor, Trina Maus left for CKVR-TV in Barrie, Ontario.
On May 31, 2011, Shaw Media announced that a new local morning show would begin broadcasting on Global Winnipeg in mid-September 2011, although this has been delayed, with no current launch date at this time; the morning newscasts would run from 6 to 9 a.m.
The spring and summer of 2011 brought a few high profile departures to the station; first Weekend anchor and reporter Nicole Dube left to become the Manitoba Correspondent for Sun News Network. Next Dube's replacement; Lindsay Warner left the station to become the late night anchor at CKY-DT, Lead Weather Anchor, Craig Larkins left for CFRN-DT Edmonton in July, and in late August it was announced that Senior Anchor, Shannon Martin would also be leaving to pursue her career in Ontario. Her last broadcast was September 2, 2011. That same month it was announced that Kate Gajdosik would be the new Weather/Community Anchor, joining the station from CIVT-DT Vancouver; she made her debut September 12, 2011.
On September 7, 2011, it was announced that Shaw Media would be continuing its expansion of political programming, Global News will be launching provincial half-hour political programs in several markets. Similar in format to Global Toronto’s Focus Ontario and Global Montreal’s Focus Montreal, these new political programs launched in Saskatchewan on CFRE-DT and CFSK-DT, as well as CKND, on October 15, 2011. In late 2011, Global Winnipeg became the first television station in Manitoba to broadcast its local news in high definition.
In January 2012, CKND announced that it would launch The Morning News. The program will launch on February 6, 2012 and air weekdays from 6-9 a.m. At the same time, CKND also announced the acquirement of a news helicopter; Skyview 1, becoming the first television station in Winnipeg to operate a helicopter for breaking news and traffic reporting.
On August 20, 2012, CKND expanded its half-hour 10 p.m. newscast to one hour, which was retitled from Prime News to News Hour Final; the change was part of an expansion of local news programming on Global owned-and-operated stations across Canada.
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“Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden into history, it is the stories we didn’t write, the questions we didn’t ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
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