Operations
Fairchild TV produces one hour-long newscast every day. It airs at 7pm local time in both Vancouver and Toronto.
From 7pm to 7:30pm, the newscast is produced separately from newsrooms in Vancouver and Toronto, and the audience in each market receives its own appropriate edition. Domestic and international news items are covered (with the items often shared between the two editions). Local news items are tailored specifically for each edition so the coverage is relevant to its local audience (i.e. local news items from Toronto will seldom appear on the Vancouver edition, and vice versa). The two editions are also presented by different anchors, with each newsroom supplying two of its own on-air personnel.
From 7:30pm to 8pm, the newscast segments are solely produced at the Toronto newsroom, presented by the anchors in Toronto, and received by viewers in both cities. This section of the newscast covers news items from the Greater China region (People's Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan), lifestyle and feature reports, business news, sports and weather. A separate Toronto-based sports anchor presents the sports segment, and the two Toronto news anchors handle the business report and weather forecast.
Fairchild TV does have several reporters based in both cities to cover local news. However, most local and national/international news footages are usually sourced from the mainstream networks (in general Global TV for the former, and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for the latter), with footages from the Greater China region provided by China Central Television (CCTV) in mainland China, TVB in Hong Kong, and various sources in Taiwan.
The newscast is repeated at 11:30 p.m. local time.
News production is completely handled in Toronto on weekends. The newscast goes from 7 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. on Saturdays, and 7 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Sundays.
Fairchild TV does not have designated anchors for its newscast. Instead, its anchor lineup varies from night to night, as was the usual practice at television stations in Hong Kong. (Hong Kong’s TVB currently assigns shifts to its anchors on an approximately monthly basis).
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