Omni News
Introduction '''Omni News''' (styled as '''OMNI News''') is the name of local and national newscasts in various languages on the Omni Television system in Canada.
National Omni Television produces daily newscasts in Italian, Punjabi, Arabic, Filipino, Cantonese, and Mandarin. National Newscasts was launched on November 7, 2011, as half-hour national newscasts in Cantonese, Mandarin and Punjabi, on November, 14.On January 20, 2013, national newscasts in Cantonese, Mandarin, and Portuguese were cancelled due to lack of funding. On May 7, 2015, Omni News programs were cancelled and were replaced with current affairs programs program in British Columbia and Ontario, on May 11.On September 1, 2017, OMNI Newscasts returned to the OMNI stations as part of OMNI Regional, a service that provides multilingual shows, affairs shows, and news shows. * ''Omni News: Italian Edition'' daily at noon** Anchors: Onofrio Di Lernia & Teresa Romano * ''Omni News: Punjabi Edition'' - weeknights at 7:00** Anchor: Dilbar Kang* ''Omni News: Filipino Edition'' - weeknights at 8:00** Anchor: Marieton Pacheco, Arvin Joaquin, Ron Gagalac, Theresa Barrera & Rhea Santos*Omni News: Arabic Edition - weeknights at 8:30* ''Omni News: Cantonese Edition'' - weeknights at 9:00 ** Anchors: Jenny Qin, Brian Hui, Michael Fung & Stephenie Fung* ''Omni News: Mandarin Edition'' - weeknights at 10:00** Anchors: Anddy Zhao, Nicole Wang, Nelly Li & Jenny Qin* ''Omni News: Mandarin Edition Weekend'' - weekends at 6:00 pm** Anchor: Yuli Hu* ''Omni News: Filipino Edition Weekend'' - weekends at 8:00 pm** Anchor: Ron Gagalac* ''Omni News: Cantonese 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 2018Omni 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 and South Asian weekday newscasts were also launched.As of 2024, the two Omni Television stations airs the following newscasts:===Omni.1===* ''Focus Portuguese'' - weekends at 5:00===OMNI.2===* ''Focus Cantonese (OMNI都市聚焦)'' - weeknights at 9:30** Anchor: Kenneth Li (李立本)* ''Focus Mandarin'' (OMNI都会聚焦) - weeknights at 10:30**Anchor: Wei Lee (李维)
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. Production of local content at Omni Alberta ended on May 31, 2013.Until their cancellation Omni Alberta produced the following newscasts:* ''Omni News: Mandarin Edition'' - weekdays at 5:00** Thomas Deng, Mirian Chiu* ''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 (OMNI都會聚焦) ''- weeknights at 9:30 with Karen So (蘇嘉欣)* ''Focus Mandarin (OMNI都会聚焦)'' - 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. 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 * ''CityNews'', the news operation of sister station Citytv
References
External links *  OMNI News