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Right now, the local 5 PM newscasts are staying put, it's just that they'll only be 30 minutes long now instead of 1 hour.

The CP24 5:30 newscast also might continue on CP24 only while CFTO/CTV Toronto airs the new 5:30 show. CP24 has their own 11 PM newscast when CTV National News at 11 is on.

There's 2 stations that will be impacted more than the others:

- CTV Atlantic: will they be getting a 5:30 PM Atlantic time edition, or simulcast with the CTV stations in the eastern time zone and air it at 6:30 PM Atlantic time? This will affect either their highly popular 5 PM news magazine, or their equally popular 6 PM news cast.

- NTV Newfoundland: That station carries CTV News programming mixed in with Global's news and entertainment programming. Global National airs at 7 PM NT/6:30 PM AT/5:30 PM ET. Is NTV going to carry the new CTV 5:30 show? If so, does Global National move to 7:30, or be off of NTV's schedule completely? If there's a 5:30 PM AT edition created, does that mean NTV carries it at 6 PM in place of their highly popular Evening News Hour?

I did mean a cut meaning in time length , instead of 90 minutes it's 60 minutes of local news in the evening slot, it probably can be a cost savings by removing 30 minutes. Minus Toronto ,where Live at 5:30pm on CP24 would still run probably on just CP24.   I could see NTV not airing the extra CTV national news, and just keeping on with Global National and the late Edition of CTV National News.