TORONTO — Citytv’s Breakfast Television has expanded its weekday morning format with the addition of a new hour that will air across the country.
Hosted by Dina Pugliese, Roger Petersen and news anchor Melanie Ng, the new one-hour daily national special began airing today at 9 a.m. ET (6 a.m. PT, 7 a.m. MT, and 8 a.m. CT).
With many Canadians shifting their lives indoors — working from home, caring for kids who aren’t in school, or trying to juggle both at once — the focus of the daily national special is to let viewers not only act as spectators to history but participate in their own way, says the news release. BT says it is bringing fresh and entertaining content into a brand-new hour to keep the conversation going, by inviting viewers to call in to sound off about how they feel and to participate in cooking and exercise demos alongside the show’s hosts.
In Vancouver and Calgary, the new national hour will be featured during the local Breakfast Television morning shows in those cities, where viewers will continue to see live local news coverage through an L-bar graphic on the screen. In Toronto, the new national hour follows the original three-hour BT morning show.
