CBC News: The National

CBC News The National
The 2016 opening of The National
Created by	Mavor Moore
Presented by	Peter Mansbridge (Mon–Thu) Wendy Mesley (Friday and Sunday) Andrew Nichols (Saturday)
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	English
No. of episodes	N/A
Production
Executive producer(s)	Don Spandier
Location(s)	Canadian Broadcasting Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Running time	30 or 60 minutes (including commercials)
Distributor	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Release
Original network	CBC Television (1952–1992, 1995–present) CBC News Network (1990–present)
Picture format	1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV)
Original release	1954 – present
External links
Website

CBC News The National (formerly titled and still most commonly billed as The National) is the flagship national television news program of CBC News, the news division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Canada. It reports on major Canadian and international news stories, airing on CBC Television weeknights and Sundays at 10:00 p.m. local time (10:30 p.m. NT). On Saturdays, a 30-minute edition is generally aired at 6:00 p.m. ET during the season of Hockey Night in Canada (or if other live CBC Sports broadcasts are scheduled for that evening), and 6:00 local (7:00 AT, 7:30 NT) otherwise. Certain stations carry local newscasts in that timeslot instead. Since September 2007, The National has been aired in HDTV, the first Canadian national newscast to do so.

The program is also aired on CBC News Network; on weekdays, the initial version that airs live to Atlantic Canada on the main network is simulcast on CBC News Network at 9:00 p.m. ET, with several repeat broadcasts overnight. Until August 2005, The National was seen in the United States on the defunct Newsworld International channel; the program continues to be aired occasionally on C-SPAN when that network wants to provide coverage of a major Canadian news story, or a Canadian angle for a world or American event.

The National and other CBC newscasts, including CBC owned-and-operated stations' (O&Os) early-evening local newscasts, are streamed on the CBC website; those residing outside of Canada may not be able to view some content.