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Report on Business Television (sometimes abbreviated ROBTv) is a Canadian cable specialty television channel, which airs business news and analysis. It is owned by Bell Globemedia, and is named for Report on Business, the daily business section of the Globe and Mail newspaper, although its day-to-day operations are run by CTV News. Image File history File links Logo_rob_head. ... Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical... A specialty service or specialty channel is a television service, generally not available through conventional broadcast television, which consists of programming focused on a single type or targeted at a specific demographic. ... The term television channel generally refers to either a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart (both outlined below). ... Bell Globemedia Inc. ... The Globe and Mail is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. ... CTV National News is a newscast on CTV, which airs at 11pm local time on the main network across Canada. ...

The network was licensed in 1996 to a joint venture of Thomson (the Globe's owner), WIC and Cancom, and began broadcasting in September 1999. Mostly produced in-house, it also carries content from Bloomberg Television. It was the Canadian broadcast partner of CNNfn, an American business news channel, which closed in December 2004. 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The Thomson Corporation NYSE: TOC TSX: TOC is the worlds leading information company. ... You may be looking instead for the User:Wikipedia is Communism vandal Western International Communications, or WIC, was a Canadian media company, which was acquired by CanWest Global Communications in 2000. ... Canadian Satellite Communications, or Cancom, is a Canadian consortium of cable television companies, which is responsible for providing and managing the distribution of television channels to cable companies via satellite. ... September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Bloomberg Television is a cable television network that broadcasts business and financial news 24 hours a day. ... CNNfn was an US cable television news network owned by Time Warner between 1996 and December 15, 2004. ... ← - 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in December • 30 Artie Shaw • 29 Julius Axelrod • 28 Jacques Dupuis • 28 Jerry Orbach • 28 Susan Sontag • 26 Reggie White • 26 Sir Angus Ogilvy • 23 P. V. Narasimha Rao • 23 Doug Ault • 19 Renata Tebaldi • 16...

Following threats of a legal battle between CanWest Global (which, in 2000, acquired WIC's and Cancom's interests in the service, as well as main Globe rival National Post) and Bell Globemedia (the company that resulted from BCE's acquisition of CTV and the Globe), Globemedia assumed full control on November 2, 2000. CanWest Global Communications Corp. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The National Post is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. ... Bell Globemedia Inc. ... Bell Canada Enterprises is a major telecommunications company and a provider of telephone services in Canada. ... November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...

Business news segments air on CTV, including Canada AM and local CTV O&O newscasts, and on CTV Newsnet, are co-branded with Report on Business Television. CTV is a TLA that may stand for: CTV Television Network - a Canadian English language television network Channel Television - the main television broadcaster in the Channel Islands Chukyo TV. Broadcasting - a Japanese TV station in Nagoya This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... Canada AM is a Canadian breakfast television news show, which has aired on the CTV Television Network since 1972. ... In the television industry (especially in North America), an owned and operated station (frequently abbreviated as O&O) is a television station that is owned by the network with which it is associated. ... CTV Newsnet is a Canadian 24-hour headline news cable television channel which went onair on October 17, 1997. ...

The service features a televised stock ticker with real-time data from the TSX, NYSE, NASDAQ as well as many international exchanges. Based in Toronto, ROBTv also has news bureaus located in New York City, Calgary and London. The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) is Canadas largest stock exchange, and the division of the TSX Group that holds senior equities. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. ... NASDAQ MarketSite (Times Square, New York City) at night NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations) is a U.S. electronic stock market. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength City of Toronto, Ontario, Canadas Location. ... The Empire State Building (right) and the Chrysler Building (left) are easily recognized symbols of New York City to the world. ... Motto: Heart of the new west Area: 712. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...

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Michael Hainsworth joined Report on Business Television in the fall of 2000 from Toronto's all news radio station 680 News, hosting the network's noon newscast in addition to the 6PM and 11PM business reports for CTV affiliates across Canada. CFTR, broadcasting under the brand 680 News, is an all-news radio station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which broadcasts live 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 680 kHz on the AM dial. ...

Many editorial staff have left recently because of poor management, but this station still has a measured audience of approximately 5,000 loyal viewers daily. The station also has a strong viewership outside of the home (in gyms, restauraunts, offices etc.) which isn't reflected in the ratings, thereby understating the channel's true ratings. This is a situation also faced by networks with high out-of-home viewing patterns such as CNBC. CNBC (until 1991 the Consumer News and Business Channel) is a group of cable and satellite television news channels from the U.S., owned and operated by NBC Universal, a joint venture of General Electric and Vivendi Universal. ...

In January 2006, email exchanges were leaked by a Liberal Party of Canada insider and posted on several blogs. One of those exchanges was between Jack Fleischmann, ROBTv's general manager who's currently on leave, and other Liberal supporters. The emails from August 2005 discussed media strategies for the Liberal election campaign (before the campaign started and before Jack Fleischmann went on leave), which clearly have failed considering how well the Conservative Party of Canada is faring in the polls. Look up January in Wiktionary, the free dictionary January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada) is Canadas principal centrist political party. ... Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Conservative Party of Canada (French: Parti conservateur du Canada) is a right-of-centre political party in Canada, formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 2003. ...

Current Line-Up

6am: Live feed of Bloomberg Television's Morning Call
8am: AM Business with Bridgitte Anderson
10am: Business Morning with Jim O'Connell
11:30am: Talking Tax with Kim Parlee (Tuesdays & Thursdays)
12pm: Lunch Money with Michael Hainsworth
12:30pm: Market Call with Jim O'Connell
1:30pm: Trading Desk with Pat Bolland
4:00pm: The Wrap with Kim Parlee (formerly The Close)
5:00pm: Squeeze Play (hosted by Kevin O'Leary & Amanda Lang)
6:00pm: Stars & Dogs (hosted by Kim Parlee & Andy Bell)
6:30pm: Workopolis TV - a spin-off of the popular job site, Workopolis.com
Strictly Legal (Thursdays only)
Financial Fridays (Fridays only)
7:00pm: The Business News with Howard Green
8:00pm: Market Call Tonight with Howard Green
8:30pm: MoneyTalk with Patricia Lovett-Reid (Thursdays only)

On-Air Personalities and Contributors

Bridgitte Anderson
Paul Bagnell
Andrew Bell
Pat Bolland
Danielle Bochove
Mark Bunting
Martin (Marty) Cej
Michael Cochrane
Jon Erlichman
Howard Green
Michael Hainsworth
Brett Harris
Andy Hoffman
Michael Kane
Pat Kiernan
Amanda Lang
Tony Martin
Jacquie McNish
Linda Nazareth
Jim O'Connell
Kevin O'Leary
Kim Parlee
Susan Prince
Eric Reguly
Bruce Sellery
Lou Schizas
Linda Sims
Andy Willis
Paul Waldie

External link

• Official Site