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Younker became well-known and trusted within Prince Edward Island. The program's humorous and popular weatherman, Kevin "Boomer" Gallant, also joined the show in 1986. Bruce Rainnie replaced Younker as the show's permanent host in 2003, and announced on 23 February 2017, that he would be departing Compass at the end of April. [ 1 ]
CBCT-DT (channel 13) is a CBC Television station in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.The station's studios are located on University Avenue in Charlottetown, and its transmitter is located on Route 1 near Bonshaw.
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CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) [1] [2] is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.
The decision faced criticism for reducing the amount of local coverage of the pandemic's impact—especially in markets where the CBC is the only local source of news programming. The move faced criticism from the Canadian Media Guild, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, and Premier of Prince Edward Island Dennis King.
The program has been broadcast under various titles, including CBC News: Today, and CBC News Now from 2009 to 2016. From 2016, the block had no formal title, being listed in program guides as CBC News Network , before the introduction of the CBC Newsroom branding in 2023.
The first CBC newscast was a bilingual radio report on November 2, 1936. The CBC News Service was inaugurated during World War II on January 1, 1941, when Dan McArthur, chief news editor, had Wells Ritchie prepare for the announcer Charles Jennings a national report at 8:00 pm. Previously, CBC relied on The Canadian Press to provide it with wire copy for its news bulletins.
Bruce Rainnie is a broadcaster for CBC Sports and was the host (2003 to 2017) of CBC News: Compass, the supper-hour news program on CBCT in Prince Edward Island. He has been with CBC since 1995. [1] Rainnie began his career at CJLS Radio in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia where he hosted the morning show from 1989 to 1995. He received a Canadian Radio ...