[Independent]

I know NTV is a legacy station for Newfoundland. But its so weird they dont have a split schedule for both networks. Using NTV+ as the GLOBAL feed . NTV GLobal or something. Or GLOBAL and CTV opening their own stations..even if they dont do news to begin with, as its very expensive. NTV has a odd look for 2023.  They need a simplified logo. It would be fine without the stars and globe and the gold shine.  Or even if they keep the stars the globe and the gold shine needs to go.  And the news graphics are mess. Using the CTV lower third. And the set needs some serious help.

Their website is outdated too (along with most non-metropolitan stations). There's no money left in the entire Canadian media industry. I can't see how NTV can get new sets or new logos. The CRTC local station licences have local programming quotas (the private stations meet them with "local" news), which is why Global and CTV won't start a new station there.

As mentioned earlier, the new CTV National News edition is a response to recently massive job cuts (and make additional cuts?*). This is on top of the closure of radio stations and CTV recently reducing Saskatoon's newscasts to only noon and 6 pm on weekdays, which is slightly above the minimum required by their licence in the city, with all others being province wide from Regina.
*My guess is they currently need two different teams to produce the 5pm and 6 pm hour-long newscasts. If there's a break at 5:30 pm, then only one team is needed?