VANCOUVER – CTV British Columbia veteran news anchors Bill Good and Pamela Martin will be stepping down from their positions at CTV News At Six at the end of the year. They will be replaced by familiar CTV news personalities Mike Killeen and Tamara Taggart.
Good and Martin (pictured) are leaving their posts after nearly a decade as anchors, and at the end of a year which saw them host CTV’s highly rated local coverage of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. With the pair at the anchor desk, CTV News At Six has won best local newscast in Canada for three of the past five years.
Good, who will return to the network as a guest analyst for events like leadership conventions and election coverage, said that he will turn his focus to his three-hour information-based talk radio show The Bill Good Show which airs on CKNW AM 980. Martin did not immediately announce her future plans.
"Bill and Pam established CTV as a news leader, and we are deeply grateful," said Tom Haberstroh, VP and GM of CTV British Columbia, in the announcement. "They made us players in this market overnight, quadrupling our ratings in the process."
Killeen and Taggart will begin their new roles on January 3, 2011.
"Mike and Tamara are the perfect combination to take our newscast into the future," Haberstroh continued. "Both are already huge viewer favourites and well-respected throughout the community."
