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Most Canadian television stations are required to carry some news programming as per their license.

As opposed to the U. S. model, most stations, even in major markets like Toronto, carry a single newscast during the late-afternoon / early-evening period, specifically from 6: 00 to 7: 00 p. m.

However, as in the U. S., " strip " programming fills the following hour, at least in the Eastern and Pacific time zones, and is followed by prime time programming.

One or more newscasts follow, usually beginning at 11: 00 p. m .; the main exception is The National, which airs at 10: 00 on CBC.

However, there is a growing trend of some television stations adopting a newscast schedule similar to the American television model, with locally-produced newscasts in the mornings ( usually lasting about 3 to 3½ hours and airing only on weekdays, though a few stations do carry weekend morning newscasts ) and during the lunch hour, in addition to early and late-evening newscasts ; most owned-and-operated stations of Global nationwide and most CTV O & Os located west of the Ontario / Manitoba border have adopted this scheduling format for their local news programming.

In contrast, some stations carry locally-produced morning news programs even if they do not carry evening newscasts at all ( such as Citytv's owned-and-operated stations, all of which produce a weekday morning news / talk program using the title Breakfast Television ; the television system's Toronto flagship CITY-DT is the only Citytv O & O, as well as one of only three stations affiliated with the system, to carry nightly locally-produced evening newscasts ).