Eastern Townships. Mike Boone, television critic for the Montreal Gazette, criticized the newscast's lack of time for stories and felt that it was hampered by needing to provide regional stories not of much interest to Montreal. In December 1997, CKMI debuted a daily entertainment magazine, Global Tonight, hosted by Jamie Orchard. However, in June, it axed those programs and its 11 p.m. news and sports programs, moving its evening news to 6 p.m. and reallocating resources to the creation of a longform morning show. The morning show, This Morning Live, debuted in 1998. It was another four years before Global began producing a late newscast again in Quebec. This Morning Live was canceled after a decade in 2008. As part of Shaw Communications's offer to take over Canwest's television assets, Shaw promised to launch local morning newscasts on several Global stations, including CKMI. On January 28, 2013, CKMI-DT launched a three-hour weekday morning newscast, airing from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. While Global had gradually been introducing centralized newscast technical production, in 2015, it began to present entire local newscasts for Montreal from Toronto. Beginning that August, weekend newscasts were produced remotely from Toronto. Global Montreal also introduced a half-hour noon newscast, and extended its evening news to an hour. As of May 2017, Global Montreal's 5:30 p.m. supper-time newscast ranked second in the Montreal English TV market, with 28,000 viewers tuning in compared to CTV Montreal's 189,000 viewers and CBC Montreal's 27,000 viewers. Although CKMI was still far behind CFCF, its viewership numbers had risen significantly since 2011, when it finished at the bottom of the ratings with only 6,900 viewers and a three percent share. In August 2020, evening anchor Jamie Orchard was laid off. In September 2020, CKMI cancelled Focus Montreal and replaced Orchard with Tracy Tong, who anchors from Toronto; this left only the morning newscast as being presented from Montreal. On September 6, 2022, presentation of the 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. newscasts returned to the Montreal studio after the station named Aalia Adam the new anchor of Global News at 5:30 and Global News at 6:30; Adam also anchors newscasts for the Maritimes. Notable former on-air staff Heather Hiscox – news anchor (now on CBC News Network) Leslie Roberts – anchor (moved to CIII-DT in Toronto, resigned in January 2015) Jamie Orchard – weeknight anchor (laid off in August 2020) Technical information Subchannel Analogue-to-digital conversion In