In our brief, we mention that we produce and broadcast close to 25 hours of local programming per week. Ninety per cent of that programming is made up of news. For instance, our two stations that are affiliated to the TVA network produce a noon hour news bulletin, which is broadcast from 12:10 p.m. to 12:30 p.m., and an evening news bulletin, broadcast between 6:10 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
All through the day, we broadcast news headlines as events unfold, so as to offer various local news bulletins to our viewing audience. At CIMT-TV, this represents approximately seven and a half hours of local news programming per week; at CHAU-TV, approximately six hours a week; at CKRT-TV, about four hours a week; and at CFTF-TV, about five and a half hours a week.
In order to renew our broadcasting licence, the CRTC asked us to commit to 11 hours and 50 minutes of local programming. Currently, we provide almost more than twice that.