Omni News

Omni News
Genre	News
Starring	Jasdip Wahla & Dilbar Kang (Anchors, Punjabi National Edition) Onofrio Di Lernia & Teresa Romano (Anchors, Omni News Italian Edition) Kenneth Li (Anchor, Cantonese Edition, Ontario) Karen So (Anchor, Cantonese Edition, British Columbia) Wei Lee (Anchor, Mandarin Edition, Ontario) Bowen Zhang (Anchor, Mandarin Edition, British Columbia)
Theme music composer	Steve D'Angelo
Country of origin	Canada
Original language(s)	Punjabi (National) Italian (Ontario) Cantonese (Ontario & British Columbia) Mandarin (Ontario & British Columbia)
Production
Production location(s)	Toronto, Ontario Vancouver, British Columbia
Release
Original network	Omni Television
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	September 3, 1979 – present
External links
Website

Omni News (styled as OMNI News) is the name of local and national newscasts in various languages on the Omni Television system in Canada.

In most cases, while the spoken language is as indicated below, graphics and headlines are shown only in English.

National

Omni Television produces daily newscasts in Italian, Punjabi, Cantonese, and Mandarin. This began September 1, 2017, when OMNI Newscasts returned to the OMNI stations as part of OMNI Regional, a service that provides multilingual shows, affairs shows, and news shows. Prior to this, Omni News programs were cancelled May 4, 2015.

Previously, on November 7, 2011, Omni launched half-hour national newscasts in Cantonese, Mandarin and Punjabi^[1]

• Omni News: Italian Edition daily at noon
  • Anchors: Onofrio Di Lernia & Teresa Romano
• Omni News: Punjabi National Edition - weeknights at 7:00
  • Anchor: Dilbar Kang
• Focus Punjabi - weeknights at 7:30
  • Anchor: Dilbar Kang
• Omni News: Cantonese Edition - weeknights at 8:00, 7:00 Saturday night, 10:00 Sunday night
  • Anchors: Kelvin Tang, Hazel Wai & Maisy Yik (National program)
• Omni News: Cantonese National Edition - weeknights at 8:00
• Focus Cantonese - weeknights at 8:30
  • Anchor: Kenneth Li (Toronto program)
  • Anchor: Karen So (Vancouver program)
• Omni News: Mandarin Edition - weeknights at 9:00, 7:30 Saturday night, 8:30 Sunday night
  • Anchors: Anddy Zhao, Nelly Li & Nico Wang (National program)
• Omni News: Mandarin National Edition - weeknights at 9:00
• Focus Mandarin - weeknights at 9:30
  • Anchor: Wei Lee (Toronto program)
  • Anchor: Bowen Zhang (Vancouver program)
• Omni News: Mandarin National Weekend - weekends at 6:00 pm
  • Anchor: Yuli Hu
• Omni News: Cantonese National Edition Weekend - weekends at 10:00 pm
  • Anchor: Tina Tse

Ontario

Intro to OMNI News: Cantonese Edition; newscasts in languages have the English names of their languages replacing the "Cantonese" in the intro from 2009 to 2018.

Omni News in Ontario began as the 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 weekend magazine programs Weekend Wide Angle Lens (in Mandarin) and South Asian Newsweek (in English).

The station is 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^[2] and South Asian^[3] weekday newscasts were also launched.

Between 2002 and 2015,^[4] the two Omni Television stations aired the following newscasts:

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.^[5] Production of local content at Omni Alberta ended on May 31, 2013.^[6]

Omni Alberta's local newscasts which ended May 2013:

• 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:

• Omni News: Punjabi Edition - weeknights at 8:00 with Jasdip Wahla (ਜਸ੍ਡਿਪ੍ ਓਹ੍ਲ)
• Omni News: Cantonese Edition - weeknights at 9:00 and 11:00 with Karen So (蘇嘉欣)
• Omni News: Mandarin Edition - weeknights at 6:30 and 9:30 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.^[7] The station is newscasts were rebranded Omni News in 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 Korean and Tagalog. Following the station is acquisition by Rogers, 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