Midday (CBC)
| Midday | |
|---|---|
| Presented by |
Keith Morrison (1985) Bill Cameron (1985) Valerie Pringle (1985-1992) Peter Downie (1985-1989) Ralph Benmergui (1989-1992) Kevin Newman (1992-1994) Tina Srebotnjak (1993-2000) Brent Bambury (1995-2000) |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of episodes | daily |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Toronto |
| Running time | 1 hour |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBC |
| Original release | January 7, 1985 – June 30, 2000 |
Midday was a television newsmagazine series on CBC Television, which ran from January 7, 1985 to June 30, 2000, replacing local noon-hour newscasts on CBC stations. The show, which aired from noon to 1 p.m. on weekday afternoons, presented a mix of news, lifestyle and entertainment features.
Its original hosts were Bill Cameron, Keith Morrison and Valerie Pringle; Pringle hosted consistently while Cameron and Morrison alternated as her co-anchor, as both were also contributors to the CBC's nightly news program The Journal.Dave Hodge was also auditioned as a potential host of the program.
The show would open with a 10-minute CBC News summary, usually read by Sheldon Turcott in the news studio, and then move to another studio — the same studio, in fact, that was used for The Journal — for the main segment of the program. Following the launch of CBC Newsworld in 1989, the news summary became a simulcast of that network's hourly news update that was live for each time zone.
The original producer was Michael Harris and the series was directed for its first four seasons by Sidney M. Cohen, who later became executive producer of Canada AM for CTV. Initial ratings were not strong, with the program attracting only slightly more viewers across all of Canada than CIII-TV's local noon-hour newscast was attracting in the Toronto market alone, although the program was a strong performer in the ratings by 1986.
After several months with the program, Morrison transferred to the CBC's bureau in Ottawa, while Cameron was not interested in taking over as a permanent host of the program due to his duties with The Journal, and Peter Downie was hired as Pringle's new cohost; Pringle took a maternity leave in 1986, with Sue Prestedge filling in as substitute anchor for several weeks.
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