CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely

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, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca. Founded in 1941, CBC News is the largest news broadcaster in Canada and has local, regional, and national broadcasts and stations. It frequently collaborates with its organizationally separate French-language counterpart, Radio-Canada Info.

History

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. Readers who followed Jennings were Lorne Greene, Frank Herbert and Earl Cameron. ''CBC News Roundup'' (French counterpart: ''La revue de l'actualité'') started on August 16, 1943, at 7:45 pm, being replaced by ''

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'' on October 31, 1966. On English-language television the first newscast, part of '' CBC Newsmagazine'', was given on September 8, 1952, on CBLT (Toronto), the only English station then telecasting. Later that year ''CBC National News'' was introduced (anchors:

Larry Henderson Larry Henderson (September 4, 1917 – November 26, 2006) was the first regular newsreader on the CBC Television's ''The National News'', later rebranded as ''CBC News: The National, The National'', from 1954 to 1959. He was born in Montreal, Q ...

, Earl Cameron,

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