Omni News

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

Omni News
GenreNews
Presented byDilbar Kang (Anchor, Punjabi National Edition)
Onofrio Di Lernia & Teresa Romano (Anchors, Omni News Italian Edition)
Kenneth Li (Anchor, Cantonese Edition, Ontario)
Karen So (Anchor, Cantonese Edition, British Columbia)
Wei Lee (Anchor, Mandarin Edition, Ontario)
Bowen Zhang (Anchor, Mandarin Edition, British Columbia)
Marieton Pacheco, Ron Gagalac, Arvin Joaquin & Rhea Santos (Anchors, Filipino National Edition)
Theme music composerSteve D'Angelo
Country of originCanada
Original languagesPunjabi (National)
Italian (Ontario)
Cantonese (National, Ontario & British Columbia)
Mandarin (National, Ontario & British Columbia)
Filipino (National)
Production
Production locationsToronto, Ontario
Vancouver, British Columbia
Release
Original networkOmni Television
Original releaseSeptember 3, 1979 (1979-09-03) –
present

National

Omni Television produces daily newscasts in Italian, Punjabi, Arabic, Filipino, Cantonese, and Mandarin. This began on 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 on 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: Onofrio Di Lernia & Teresa Romano
  • Omni News: Punjabi National Edition - weeknights at 7:00
    • Anchor: Dilbar Kang
  • Focus Punjabi - weeknights at 7:30
    • Anchor: Dilbar Kang
  • Omni News: Filipino National Edition - weeknights at 8:00
    • Anchor: Marieton Pacheco, Arvin Joaquin, Ron Gagalac, Theresa Barrera & Rhea Santos
  • Omni News: Cantonese National Edition - weeknights at 9:00
    • Anchors: Jenny Qin, Brian Hui, Michael Fung & Stephenie Fung
  • Focus Cantonese - weeknights at 9:30
    • Anchor: Kenneth Li (Toronto program)
    • Anchor: Karen So (Vancouver program)
  • Omni News: Mandarin National Edition - weeknights at 10:00
    • Anchors: Anddy Zhao, Nicole Wang, Nelly Li & Jenny Qin
  • Focus Mandarin - weeknights at 10:30pm
    • Anchor: Wei Lee (Toronto program)
    • Anchor: Bowen Zhang (Vancouver program)
  • Omni News: Mandarin National Edition Weekend - weekends at 6:00 pm
    • Anchor: Yuli Hu
  • 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: Tina Tse

Ontario
Intro to OMNI News: Cantonese Edition; newscasts in other 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 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 the weekend magazine programs Weekend Wide Angle Lens (in Mandarin) and South Asian Newsweek (in English).

The station's 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: Vincenzo Somma
    • Sports anchor: Dino Cavalluzzo
  • Omni News: Portuguese Edition - weeknights at 5:00
    • Anchor: Clara Abreu
    • Sports anchor: Alexandre Franco

OMNI 2
  • OMNI News: Cantonese Edition - Monday to Friday at 9:00 PM
    • Anchor: Stanley So, Susan Ip, Kenneth Li, Jason Leung
  • Omni News: Mandarin Edition - Monday to Friday at 8:00 PM
    • Anchor: Wei Lee

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]

Until their cancellation Omni Alberta produced the following newscasts:

  • Omni News: Mandarin Edition - weekdays at 5:00p
  • Omni News: South Asian Edition - weeknights at 8:00
    • Sudha Krishnan, Aadel Halem
  • Omni News: Cantonese Edition - weeknights at 9:00
    • Kit Koon, Jonathan Lau, Kelly Leung, Brian Wong

British Columbia

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

  • Focus Punjabi - weeknights at 7:30 with Dilbar Kang
  • Focus Cantonese - weeknights at 9:30 with Karen So (蘇嘉欣)
  • Focus Mandarin - weeknights at 10:30 with Bowen Zhang (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's newscasts were rebranded to Omni News on 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's acquisition by Rogers, the production of those newscasts were handed over to independent production companies.

See also

References
  1. "OMNI TV Launches National Newscasts". Broadcaster. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
  2. "OMNI.2 Introduces New Half-Hour Mandarin Language Newscast Every Weeknight". Omni Television press release. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
  3. "OMNI.2's New One Hour South Asian Newscast to Air Daily in Prime Time". Omni Television press release. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
  4. "Rogers cuts 110 jobs, ends all OMNI newscasts". TheGlobeAndMail.com. May 7, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2018.
  5. "Rogers Closes OMNI TV Edmonton and Calgary Studios". mediamag blog. Retrieved 2011-10-01.
  6. "Calgary's immigrant community dealt a blow with loss of OMNI programming". Calgary Herald. Retrieved 31 May 2013.
  7. "Multi-TV". Vancouver Courier. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-08-07.
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