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More from Paula Waddell, Executive Producer of Ottawa Regional News...

A big cheer went up in our newsroom last night when weatherman Ian Black popped up on the screen and said "It's 5 o'clock. The news starts now."

CBC Ottawa has now launched its two new early local newscasts - Ottawa at 5 and Ottawa at 5:30. Both programs were followed by Ottawa at 6.

All the reporters made their deadlines, all the scripts were done in time...we had a few close calls, items fed from the rest of the country came in later than expected. We are calling it a success from the bench but it will be the audience that will decide if it likes the options of getting local news earlier in the evening.

Comments

I had hope someone might be blogging from city hall today. There's some interesting stuff going on.

Posted by: Colin Hine | September 2, 2009 02:49 PM

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