Reshmi Nair, Heather Butts, Lindsay Hamilton and Kayla Grey have been named as the new hosts behind Bell Media’s ‘Daily Essentials’ content for the Quibi short-form mobile video platform. Launching Apr. 6, Butts will host Newsday by CTV News, while Nair will helm its Newsnight counterpart. Highlight show Sports AM by TSN will be hosted by Hamilton weekdays and Grey on weekends. Read more here.
Mike Smyth and Jill Bennett are officially joining the 980 CKNW Vancouver schedule following Simi Sara’s move from middays to mornings. Following Mornings with Simi, The Mike Smyth Show will air from 9 a.m. to noon, hosted by the longtime The Province columnist. After two decades as a CKNW contributor and guest host, Smyth is joining Corus Entertainment full-time and will also contribute as a columnist for GlobalNews.ca. From noon to 3 p.m. weekdays, Global BC reporter Bennett hosts The Jill Bennett Show. She’s hosted CKNW’s Weekend Morning News for the past 11 years. Jon McComb, who retired from the morning show in December, will also return as the station’s imaging voice. Read more here.
JJ Clarke (aka Ron Rowat) has parted ways with CTV Ottawa. Clarke started his career in radio as a part-time announcer at CHAM Hamilton while studying at McMaster University. He joined CTV Ottawa in 1985 as weathercaster and staff announcer.
Beatrice Britneff is joining Global’s parliamentary bureau as an online political reporter, starting Apr. 6. Britneff has been an online reporter covering local Ottawa news for Global since 2018. Prior to that she spent two years as a reporter with iPolitics.
Maggie Parkhill has left Postmedia to join CTV News as an overnight digital producer. Based in Hamilton, Parkhill has been a copy editor with Postmedia since 2018, working on publications including the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald and Vancouver Sun.
Mahem Abadi has taken on a new role with Global News as Supervising National Online Journalist, News Planning. Abadi has been a news editor and writer with the network for the past three years, specializing in breaking news.
Christian Lind, who had worked as a creative producer with Momentum Media Marketing for nearly 12 years, has left the company to pursue other opportunities. Lind had served as Broadcast Dialogue’s art director since 2016 when Momentum acquired the publication.
