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Canadian Screen Awards winners: News, Entertainment & Sports – Broadcast Dialogue
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television handed out the 2024 Canadian Screen Awards for News, Entertainment, and Sports on Tuesday evening at the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto.
Multiple award winners included CBC’s The National, which saw Jorge Barrera capture Best National Reporter and Adrienne Arsenault named Best News Anchor, National, with CBC News: Adrienne Arsenault Reports: Inside Ukraine winning Best News or Information Program. CTV National News with Omar Sachedina won Best National Newscast.
Debra Arbec from CBC Montreal News at 6 secured the Best News Anchor, Local award, while Bartley Kives from CBC Winnipeg picking up Best Local Reporter. Best Local Newscast went to CBC Vancouver News at 6.
APTN Investigates, W5, and ET Canada – which was cancelled by Global last fall – all picked up two awards apiece, as did TSN’s 2022 Grey Cup coverage.
The evening’s special award recipient was longtime foreign correspondent Paul Workman, who was recognized with the Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism, presented by Lisa LaFlamme.
Find the full list of winners here:
Best Sports Host
CFL Touchdown Atlantic
TSN (Bell Media)
Kate Beirness
Best Sports Program or Series
Serge Ibaka’s How Hungry Are You?: Giannis Antetokounmpo
Sportsnet (Rogers Sports & Media)
Serge Ibaka, Jordi Vilà Sánchez, Paul Sidhu, Mark Wade, Michael Adach, Devon Burns
Best Sports Feature Segment
For All of Us
TSN (Bell Media)
Rob Dunn, Jacob Frenkel, Michael Banani, Vince Tremblay, Mike McKay, Cedrik Dessureault
Best Sports Opening
2022 Grey Cup
TSN (Bell Media)
Matt Dorman, Darren Oliver, Devon Burns, Steve Denheyer, Richard Liani
Best News Anchor, Local
CBC Montreal News at 6
Debra Arbec
Best Local Newscast
CBC Vancouver News at 6
Best Local Reporter
CBC Winnipeg News at Six
Bartley Kives
Best Live News Special
Decision Alberta 2023
Global (Corus Entertainment)
Best Photography, News or Information
APTN Investigates – Reawakening the Mountains
Rob Smith
Best Host or Interviewer, News or Information
VeraCity: Indigiqueer
Citytv (Rogers Sports & Media)
(Wookey Films Inc.)
Sarain Fox
Best Variety or Entertainment Special
This Hour Has 22 Minutes: This Special Has 30 Years
CBC (CBC)
(22M-Hour Productions (NS) 30 Inc.)
Matt Charlton, Mike Allison, Michael Donovan, Meaghan Clark, Carl Gosine, Tracey Jardine, Dana Landry
Best Entertainment News Program or Series
Entertainment Tonight Canada
Global (Corus Entertainment)
Best Web Program or Series, Non-Fiction
Here & Queer
(CBC)
Peter Knegt, Lucius Dechausay, Mercedes Grundy, Chelle Turingan
Best Host, Web Program or Series
County Blooms
(JPO & Co Entertainment Inc, Federgreen Entertainment)
Jen Pogue
Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism
Paul Workman
Best Political News Program or Series
CTV’s Power Play with Vassy Kapelos
CTV News (Bell Media)
Best News or Information Series
APTN Investigates
APTN (APTN)
Best News or Information Program
CBC News: Adrienne Arsenault Reports: Inside Ukraine
(CBC/Radio-Canada)
Best News or Information Segment
W5 – Narco Avocados
CTV (Bell Media)
Best Direction, Live Sports Event
2023 Stanley Cup Final Game 5
Sportsnet (Rogers Sports & Media)
Ron Forsythe
Best Live Sports Event
2022 Grey Cup
TSN (Bell Media)
Paul Graham, Jon Hynes
AND
2023 IIHF World Junior Gold Medal Game
TSN (Bell Media)
Paul Graham, Chris Edwards
Best Sports Play-by-Play Announcer
CBC Sports Presents
Rob Snoek
Best Sports Analyst
Hockey Night in Canada
Sportsnet (Rogers Sports & Media)
Kevin Bieksa
Best Host, Live Entertainment Special
The 2023 JUNO Awards
CBC (CBC)
(Insight Productions LTD)
Simu Liu
Best Live Entertainment Special
The Legacy Awards 2023
CBC (CBC)
(Insight Productions LTD)
Shamier Anderson, Stephan James, Lindsay Cox, Shannon Farr, John Brunton, Daniel Abrams, Jordan Rudder, Andre Williamson, Ian Steaman, Mazin Elsadig, Fatuma Adar, Jemeni G, Tanisha Scott
Best Live Production, Social Media
ET Canada Live
(Corus Entertainment)
John Kampilis, Laura Carroll, Bob Pagrach, Fay Philavanh, Katie Colley
Best National Reporter
CBC News: The National
(CBC/Radio-Canada)
Jorge Barrera
Best News Anchor, National
CBC News: The National
(CBC/Radio-Canada)
Adrienne Arsenault
Best National Newscast
CTV National News with Omar Sachedina
CTV News (Bell Media)
The Canadian Academy will present the Television Craft and Television Program and Performance Awards on Wednesday.
The Documentary, Factual, Lifestyle & Reality Awards, and Cinematic Arts Awards will follow on Thursday, followed by the televised Canadian Screen Awards gala on Friday set to air on CBC and CBC Gem at 8 p.m. local time, 9 p.m. AT, 9:30 p.m. NL.
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