Who should be The National's new anchor? - Page 5

Acajack · #81 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 4:27 PM**

Just looked up Andrew Chang as I did not know who he was. Handsome guy!

esquire · #82 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 4:34 PM**

^ I guess you have to be to make it in broadcast news... the only people on The National who aren't uniformly good looking are the print journalists on the panel discussions.

Acajack · #83 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 4:37 PM**

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^ I guess you have to be to make it in broadcast news... the only people on The National who aren't uniformly good looking are the print journalists on the panel discussions.

Actually, I wouldn't say that all four of those co-anchors are good looking.

esquire · #84 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 4:41 PM**

^ You don't have to be cover-model good looking, but just generally good looking. You don't often see ugly anchors, reporters, etc.

Acajack · #85 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 4:42 PM**

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^ You don't have to be cover-model good looking, but just generally good looking.

I prefer to stop this aspect of the discussion right here.

esquire · #86 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 4:43 PM**

^ Works for me!

MolsonExport · #87 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 5:09 PM**

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^ I guess you have to be to make it in broadcast news... the only people on The National who aren't uniformly good looking are the print journalists on the panel discussions.

I had a bit of a crush on Wendy Mesley back in the 80s. Plus, she went to my high school.

MolsonExport · #88 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 5:12 PM**

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^ I call for a National retro night, with old school graphics, synthesizer music and 80s hairdos.

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MolsonExport · #89 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 5:16 PM**

great Meech scrap between Brian Mulroney and Clive Wells, and a hot young Wendy Mesley (at the very end)

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Acajack · #90 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 5:29 PM**

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great Meech scrap between Brian Mulroney and Clive Wells, and a hot young Wendy Mesley (at the very end)

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Classic! Those were fascinating times.

And I just looked up Wendy's bio. She is a lot older than I thought. I figured she was about 5 years older than me but she's more than 10 years my senior.

MolsonExport · #91 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 5:36 PM**

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Classic! Those were fascinating times.

And I just looked up Wendy's bio. She is a lot older than I thought. I figured she was about 5 years older than me but she's more than 10 years my senior.

yeah, she is quite a bit older than I am. I reckon you and I are very nearly the same age.

MonctonRad · #92 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 5:47 PM**

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I just looked up Wendy's bio. She is a lot older than I thought. I figured she was about 5 years older than me but she's more than 10 years my senior.

Esquire mentioned bringing back Janine Baijnath to do the weather at the end of the National.

I remembered her too, and like you with Wendy, I did a little internet sleuthing.

I don't think Janine will be coming back to the CBC anytime soon. She's now Dr. Janine Baijnath, having recieved a Ph.D in climate modelling form Waterloo. Furthermore, she's headed south for a research fellowship with NASA Ames, and has expressed a desire someday to become an astronaut.

Impressive lady......

Acajack · #93 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 6:32 PM**

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yeah, she is quite a bit older than I am. I reckon you and I are very nearly the same age.

Yeah, we do seem to have the same generational reference markers.

Except you seem to have done something with your life.

And I am just a loser posting pseudo-intelligent stuff on Internet forums!

kwoldtimer · #94 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 7:06 PM**

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great Meech scrap between Brian Mulroney and Clive Wells, and a hot young Wendy Mesley (at the very end)

Same voice, same face (almost), only the neck has aged! The neck never lies ..... Amazing for a woman of sixty though.

esquire · #95 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 7:10 PM**

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Yeah, we do seem to have the same generational reference markers.

Except you seem to have done something with your life.

And I am just a loser posting pseudo-intelligent stuff on Internet forums!

All is not lost. I, for one, appreciate your insights!

MolsonExport · #96 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 9:41 PM**

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Yeah, we do seem to have the same generational reference markers.

Except you seem to have done something with your life.

And I am just a loser posting pseudo-intelligent stuff on Internet forums!

Nahh, you might be a pseudo-loser (which means, you are most definitely not one!). Many of our significant others probably look askance at our SSP obsessions.
I am just another keyboard warrior, like a lot of us.

Acajack · #97 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 9:54 PM**

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Nahh, you might be a pseudo-loser (which means, you are most definitely not one!). Many of our significant others probably look askance at our SSP obsessions.
I am just another keyboard warrior, like a lot of us.

Yeah, I was just being facetious. I know I'm (very likely) not a loser!

esquire · #98 Posted **Nov 10, 2017, 10:11 PM**

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Yeah, I was just being facetious. I know I'm (very likely) not a loser!

Of course not. There is a random guy you've never met in Winnipeg who appreciates your insight. If that isn't reason to hold your head high I don't know what is!

LilZebra · #99 Posted **Nov 11, 2017, 12:20 AM**

This should have been set up as a Poll.

My choice is Wendy Mesley.

CBC did a similar thing to what ABC News did in July 1978 when they created World News Tonight, with multiple anchors.

I'm not really "cozy" with any of them, TBH.

They say that Millennials (I'm a Gen Xer, b. 1966) have shunned programmed tv and even stanard newscasts, in favour of Facebook posts and YouTube (LIVE).

I say that what makes a newscast great are:

Gotta have a warm coloured set. What happened in the past few years are these cooler coloured (Microsoft?) blues and greens. Makes me think I'm in some kind of sterile/clinical environment. Stick to the reds, creams, beige, and viewers will awwww, just about the set itself.
Not so much the HUGE LCD screens, but scale it back to retain a Human scale element to the set.
Get rid of the "political panels" that were the foreray of Peter Mansbridge. I want straight news, interviews, and documentaries...The mix that worked well were during the 1980s with The National & The Journal. CBC re-captured that model in the 1990s when The Journal was cancelled and What's Her Name hosted 'The National Magazine' in around 1996.
TBH, IMHO, Hannomansing is overrated.

LilZebra · #**100** Posted **Nov 11, 2017, 12:53 AM**

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There is something to be said for stability... CTV doesn't muck around with their formula and it makes for a better product IMO.

Before your time, but back in the 1970s LLoyd Robertson and Harvey Kirck were co-anchors of CTV National News.

YouTube - CTV National News 1981 (with Lloyd Robertson & Harvey Kirck)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5va4DrZb94&t=436s

Lloyd came from the CBC And before that he was hired on by Knowlton Nash to do the weekend newscast.

Harvey left in the early 80s and Robertson was the sole anchor until retirement in 2011.