CBC Newsworld is a 24-hour cable television news channel operated by the CBC. It is the world's third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in the United States and Sky News in the United Kingdom.
The channel initially began broadcasting on July 31, 1989, and it originally broadcast from studios in several different Canadian cities, reflecting the coast-to-coast nature of the service. Budget cuts eventually forced CBC Newsworld to centralize most of its operations in Toronto.
Its French counterpart is Réseau de l'information (RDI), run by the CBC's French arm, Radio-Canada.
Some of CBC Newsworld's programming also airs on Newsworld International, a US owned and operated cable news network. However, CBC Newsworld also produces some programming for Newsworld International, and schedules programming from other news networks, which does not air on the Canadian channel. Newsworld International was originally owned and operated by the CBC. Newsworld International was sold to Vivendi Universal in 2000, and sold again to Al Gore and Joel Hyatt in 2004 Newsworld will continue to provide for the network's programming until the Gore and Hyatt launch their own network on August 1.
Newsworld also carries some news and lifestyle programming from BBC World.
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