Location and Format
CP24 is based at 299 Queen Street West, at the corner of John Street and Queen Street West, previously sharing the newsroom with CITY-TV on the ground floor. In November 2008, CP24 moved its operations to a new studio and newsroom on the second floor of the complex. Coinciding with the new studio, CP24 also adopted an updated on-air appearance, replacing the previous blue and gold colour scheme with a red, white, and black design.
CP24's screen format utilizes a window in the top-left of the screen to show the current program, which is surrounded with a sidebar with weather and traffic reports, along with scrolling news headlines and local entertainment/event information, and tickers for stocks and sports. This format has been described as more closely resembling a website than a conventional television channel, and has been replicated with a similar look of CP24's enriched screen on its website.
On September 27, 2012, CP24 once again updated its on-air appearance as the channel began broadcasting in High definition.
There were several changes to the relaunched enriched screen, including:
- the entertainment and concert listings were reallocated from the bottom screen to the right-hand corner below the weather scroll and above the traffic box,
- the weather scroll was expanded to a "five-day" contrast (which previously only displayed in "four-day" contrast) on which the scroll displays the forecast breakdown for the next 24-hours (e.g., "MORN" for morning, "AFT", for afternoon, "EVE" for evening and "NITE" for overnight and "MORN" for the next morning), and
- a larger sports headline news scroll was added at the bottom.
- business news from Canada's Toronto Stock Exchange and the American New York Stock Exchange takes over the sports headline scroll Monday-Friday from 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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