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News division of Fairchild TV in Canada

Fairchild TV News is the news division of Fairchild TV, a Cantonese cable television network in Canada. It competes against the Cantonese Omni News broadcasts aired by Rogers' Omni Television stations. Since 2017, Fairchild has produced the Chinese language newscasts aired by Omni.

Prior to 2001, Fairchild’s Vancouver and Toronto operations were separate. The station operated as two separate feeds, one for each city, and the two feeds often had slightly different schedules from each other. Each feed also had its own completely separate newscast, produced at its own facility. Viewers in Toronto never saw an anchor from Vancouver, and vice versa. The newscast was aired at 7:30 p. m. local time, and presented by only one anchor. Each feed also had its local weather segment, which was aired immediately after the newscast as a separate programme in and of itself.

However, this split feed arrangement breached the station’s Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) licensing conditions. As such, Fairchild TV was forced to merge the two feeds back into a single national feed in 2001. Vancouver viewers now received exactly the same feed (other than local commercials) as those in Toronto, only on a three hour delay due to time difference. Under the single national feed, initially the bulk of the newscast was produced in Toronto, with only a brief segment produced in Vancouver consisting of regional items from Western Canada (primarily from Metro Vancouver itself). The weather forecast was also completely produced in Toronto. Gradually, Vancouver’s production team received more airtime, as it took over production of the Greater China news segment. Not only did the Vancouver newsroom receive less airtime overall; it was also unable to cover local news effectively. The Vancouver newsroom had been heavily dependent on Global BC for local news footages, and prior to the changeover, it routinely taped footages off Global BC’s 6:00 p. m. newscast to air on its own bulletin. However, under the single national feed, the Vancouver newsroom had to link up with Toronto at 4:30 p. m. Pacific in order to meet the 7:30pm Eastern deadline for the newscast. As such, the Vancouver newsroom now had to tape Global BC’s noon or even morning newscast instead (which often carried items from the previous day), resulting in Vancouver news items often being shown on a one day delay. To partly remedy this problem, the station launched a 11:00 p. m. newscast, titled Western Canada Late News (加西晚間新聞). This gave the Vancouver newsroom another opportunity to link up at 8:00 p. m. PT for a 11:00 p. m. ET deadline, and allowed it to use footages from Global BC’s 6:00 p. m. newscast. Western Canada Late News was completely produced at the Vancouver studio. The main evening newscast's starting time was moved up from 7:30 p. m. to 7:00 p. m. local time in June 2003. In conjunction with the schedule change, the Vancouver operation debuted a new open studio, with a view of the newsroom behind the anchors.

The shortcomings of this national setup were apparent to Fairchild, which petitioned to the CRTC to amend its licensing conditions. The request was granted, and Fairchild revamped its news production in fall 2004. (Details of the revamped newscast have been discussed in the “Operations” section.) Since the Vancouver newsroom now had more airtime and no longer had to run any items on a one day delay, “Western Canada Late News” was promptly cancelled. In early 2006, the entire Vancouver studio was relocated to the third floor of Richmond's Aberdeen Centre (a shopping mall owned by the Fairchild Group), and a new newsroom studio was opened. Visitors of Aberdeen Centre can now watch the studio production of newscast through the windows.

Until 2001, each feed’s newscast was presented by a solo anchor, who was not seen at all on the other feed. After the single feed went into effect in 2001, most of the newscast is presented by a Toronto based anchor, with a Vancouver based anchor presenting a brief segment of Western Canadian news. In 2003, in conjunction with the move to a 7:00 p. m. starting time, the evening newscast also became completely duo anchored, with two anchors based in Toronto and another two in Vancouver. With the introduction of the duo anchor format also came "happy talk", involving the two co anchors exchanging supposedly casual conversations. Initially the bantering was at times rather forced and awkward; however, the conversations now sound more natural, as the anchors have apparently become more accustomed to this format. The "happy talk" format was further supplemented with the addition of a Toronto based sports anchor in 2004. For its entire existence, Western Canada Late News was solo anchored. Until December 31, 2017, Sports reporting was presented in the Toronto segment with alternating sports anchor. There is no specific weather or business presenter as the task is completed by one of two anchors. From January 1, 2018 to March 2020 and Since May 2022, Toronto's newscast was nationally produced in the Vancouver newsroom only. When the COVID 19 pandemic in Canada began, the newscast was reduced to one anchor.

News production studios and bureaus are located in Toronto (Richmond Hill, Ontario) and Vancouver (Richmond, British Columbia). Reporters (and camera crew) may travel to remote locations if needed and mostly within Canada. There have been several occasions where reporters have travelled overseas, mainly to Hong Kong. In total, there are 20 on screen personalities in the news division.