TORONTO (August 17, 2017) – CTV Winnipeg’s all-new CTV NEWS AT FIVE airs weekdays beginning Monday, Aug. 28, highlighting the biggest news from across the province. This hour-long newscast is part of CTV’s major expansion of its award-winning local news programming, further bolstering the network’s commitment to deliver Canada’s most trusted news coverage, and ensuring viewers can tune in to local CTV NEWS broadcasts at 5 p.m., as well as 6 p.m.

CTV Winnipeg’s locally focused edition of CTV NEWS AT FIVE is anchored by Maralee Caruso, who conducts frequent sit-down interviews with local politicians, community leaders, and newsmakers to discuss the most significant issues facing Manitoba.

CTV NEWS AT FIVE also features regular contributions from CTV Winnipeg’s team of trusted reporters, including:

• Daily weather and traffic reports from CTV Winnipeg weather specialist Colleen Bready
• Medicalwatch segments with Michelle Gerwing, focusing on leading medical research news, as well as trends in health, food, and fitness
• Megan Benedictson bringing viewers the biggest news of the day from the digital space

Maralee Caruso anchors CTV Winnipeg’s all-new CTV NEWS AT FIVE

CTV Winnipeg’s CTV NEWS AT SIX continues to feature co-anchors Caruso and Gord Leclerc, with Bready continuing her role as weather specialist.

“I’m excited to expand our news coverage to focus in on even more of the news that matters most to Manitobans,” said Maralee Caruso, Anchor, CTV NEWS AT FIVE. “I look forward to sitting down with local newsmakers to dig deeper into the biggest issues of the day impacting our viewers.”

“The newly expanded CTV NEWS AT FIVE will keep viewers across Manitoba up to date on the biggest issues in their communities,” said Karen Mitchell, News Director, CTV Winnipeg. “In addition to comprehensive local news coverage, CTV NEWS AT FIVE will also focus on important topics that affect our lives, such as health, money, and technology.”

CTV Winnipeg joins the six CTV stations already delivering CTV NEWS AT FIVE (CTV Vancouver, CTV Calgary, CTV Red Deer, CTV Edmonton, CTV Lethbridge, and CTV Atlantic), with all-new editions of the newscast being added to the following local station lineups:

CTV Saskatoon
CTV Prince Albert
CTV Regina
CTV Yorkton
CTV Northern Ontario
CTV Kitchener
CTV Ottawa
CTV Montreal

Reaching more viewers in an average week or month, and attracting the highest average audience of any news organization in the country, CTV News is definitively Canada’s most-watched and most-trusted destination for news coverage. Locally, viewers on average watch more hours of news on CTV than anywhere else. CTV’s evening newscasts are Top 5 programs in the majority of their local markets.