CanWest Global announced today that it is selling two major market TV stations to Channel Zero (operator of cable specialty stations Movieola and Silver Screen Classics). The stations, in Montreal and Hamilton, were scheduled to close in the Fall, if not sold. Channel Zero apparently paid minimal consideration.
Channel Zero, said it plans to change the format of Hamilton's CHCH Channel station to an all-news format throughout the day while running movies in the evening. (The Montreal station operates as a multicultural channel.) The new format heralds a return to CH’s historical roots when it was known for airing North American TV premieres of box office hit movies and as the home of news personalities like Norm Marshall, Tom Cherington and weatherman Bill Lawrence (later of CBC Toronto).
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