Omni News

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Omni News (styled as OMNI News) is the name of local and national newscasts in various languages on the Omni Television system in Canada.

National[]

Omni Television produces daily newscasts in Italian, Punjabi, Arabic, Filipino, Cantonese, and Mandarin. This began September 1, 2017, when OMNI Newscasts returned to the OMNI stations as part of OMNI Regional, a service that provides multilingual shows, affairs shows, and news shows. Prior to this, Omni News programs were cancelled May 4, 2015.

Previously, on November 7, 2011, Omni launched half-hour national newscasts in Cantonese, Mandarin and Punjabi^[1]

• Omni News: Italian Edition daily at noon
  • Anchors: &
• Omni News: Punjabi National Edition - weeknights at 7:00
  • Anchor:
• Focus Punjabi - weeknights at 7:30
  • Anchor:
• Omni News: Filipino National Edition - weeknights at 8:00
  • Anchor: , , Ron Gagalac, Theresa Barrera & Rhea Santos
• Omni News: Cantonese National Edition - weeknights at 9:00
  • Anchors: , &
• Focus Cantonese - weeknights at 9:30
  • Anchor: (Toronto program)
  • Anchor: (Vancouver program)
• Omni News: Mandarin National Edition - weeknights at 10:00

• Anchors: , , &

• Focus Mandarin - weeknights at 10:30pm
  • Anchor: (Toronto program)
  • Anchor: (Vancouver program)
• Omni News: Mandarin National Edition Weekend - weekends at 6:00 pm
  • Anchor:
• Omni News: Filipino National Edition Weekend - weekends at 8:00 pm
  • Anchor: Ron Gagalac
• Omni News: Cantonese National Edition Weekend - weekends at 10:00 pm
  • Anchor:

Ontario[]

Intro to OMNI News: Cantonese Edition; newscasts in languages have the English names of their languages replacing the "Cantonese" in the intro from 2009 to 2018.

Omni News logo used from 2002 to 2018

Omni News in Ontario began as the local newscasts seen on Toronto's CFMT-DT. Before the station was renamed "Omni.1" on September 16, 2002, CFMT aired newscasts in Cantonese, Italian and Portuguese on weeknights. In addition, the station also aired weekend magazine programs Weekend Wide Angle Lens (in Mandarin) and South Asian Newsweek (in English).

The station is news operation was restructured into Omni News in conjunction with the September 16, 2002 launch of CJMT-DT ("Omni.2"). The Cantonese newscast was moved from CFMT to CJMT, and new Mandarin^[2] and South Asian^[3] weekday newscasts were also launched.

Between 2002 and 2015,^[4] the two Omni Television stations aired the following newscasts:

Omni.1[]

• Omni News: Italian Edition - weeknights at 8:00pm
  • Anchor:
  • Sports Anchor:
• Omni News: Portuguese Edition - weeknights at 5:00
  • Anchor:
  • Sports Anchor:

OMNI 2[]

• OMNI News: Cantonese Edition - Monday to Friday at 9:00 PM
  • Anchor: Stanley So, , ,
• Omni News: Mandarin Edition - Monday to Friday at 8:00 PM
  • Anchor:

Alberta[]

Omni News in Alberta was launched in September 15, 2008 in conjunction with CJCO-DT in Calgary and CJEO-DT in Edmonton. The two stations produced three nightly television newscasts aimed at the Cantonese, Mandarin, and South Asian communities across the province. While there were news gathering teams in both Edmonton and Calgary, the newscasts were presented from the Citytv/Omni Television studios in Downtown Edmonton.

Omni Alberta ceased production of its local newscasts on September 15, 2011 as part of a reorganization at Rogers Media. National newscasts in Cantonese, Mandarin and Punjabi, as well as Omni News: South Asian Edition produced from Toronto are now seen on Omni Alberta; these newscasts feature one or two stories from Alberta per day.^[5] Production of local content at Omni Alberta ended on May 31, 2013.^[6]

Omni Alberta's local newscasts which ended May 2013:

• Omni News: Mandarin Edition - weekdays at 5:00p
  • Thomas Deng,
• Omni News: South Asian Edition - weeknights at 8:00
  • ,
• Omni News: Cantonese Edition - weeknights at 9:00
  • , , , Brian Wong

British Columbia[]

CHNM-DT in Vancouver, British Columbia produces the following newscasts:

• Omni News: Punjabi Edition - weeknights at 8:00 with (ਜਸ੍ਡਿਪ੍ ਓਹ੍ਲ)
• Omni News: Cantonese Edition - weeknights at 9:00 and 11:00 with (蘇嘉欣)
• Omni News: Mandarin Edition - weeknights at 6:30 and 9:30 with (張博)

CHNM's newscasts were known as Channel M News from June 30, 2003, to September 14, 2008. During those years, the station also had a reciprocal agreement Vancouver's CTV station CIVT-DT, which allowed the two stations to share news resources.^[7] The station is newscasts were rebranded Omni News in September 15, 2008, following the approval of its sale to Rogers, and its news sharing agreement with CIVT also ended.

The station also used to produce newscasts in Tagalog. Following the station is acquisition by Rogers, production of those newscasts were handed over to independent production companies.

See also[]

• CityNews, the news operation of sister station Citytv

References[]

External links[]

• OMNI News