CTV National News

CTV National News
Current title screen, September 30, 2013–present
Created by	Charles Lynch Peter Stursberg Peter Jennings
Presented by	Lisa LaFlamme (2011–present; weekdays) Sandie Rinaldo (1985–1989, 1991–present; weekends)
Country of origin	Canada
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	CTV
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Original release	October 1, 1961 – present

CTV National News is CTV's flagship newscast, which airs at 11:00 pm local time on the CTV stations across Canada. It also airs on CTV News Channel, CTV's 24-hour cable news television channel, live at 10:00 pm Eastern—or 11:00 Atlantic, when the newscast begins its nightly run across the network—with hourly repeats until 2:00 am Eastern (11:00 pm Pacific). The previous day's newscast can be seen on the Internet. The anchors are Lisa LaFlamme on weekdays, and Sandie Rinaldo on weekends. The program is also broadcast in High-Definition.

LaFlamme succeeded longtime weekday anchor Lloyd Robertson during the second half of 2011, following Robertson's retirement. Substitute anchors include Rinaldo (for weekday broadcasts), Kevin Newman, Beverly Thomson, Ken Shaw, Dan Matheson, Scott Laurie, Marci Ien, Todd van der Heyden and Omar Sachedina.

The title CTV National News was rarely used in the 1990s and early 2000s; weeknights, the program was called CTV News with Lloyd Robertson and on the weekends, CTV News with Sandie Rinaldo. The title CTV National News was reintroduced in 2008, because CTV News has become the name of both the national and local news on CTV owned and operated (O&O) stations, although the banner continues to bear the title CTV News.

The newscast ran for 20 minutes until it was expanded to a half-hour in the 1980s. Prior to 1992, the newscast ran a perennial second in national news ratings to CBC Television's The National. In that year, its ratings jumped significantly after the CBC's unsuccessful renaming of its newscast as Prime Time News. CTV National News became the top-rated newscast for the first time in its history.