TORONTO – Next Tuesday, "OMNI News: Online Edition" will launch to multilingual audiences anywhere in the world, joining the already popular news updates the channel does online.
Rogers-owned OMNI Television has been streaming 60 to 90 second updates of its newscasts to five, non-official language communities each weekday. Visits to this feature have been numerous and in response, OMNI has opted to post key content from all of its language newscasts – OMNI News: Cantonese, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese and South Asian Editions – online at www.omnitv.ca/ontario.
"OMNI News has established strong audience numbers in all language broadcast corridors," said Renato Zane, vice-president of OMNI News, in a release. "Even so, many faithful viewers have contacted us to say how much they’d like to be able to access OMNI News content outside of our broadcast schedule – to share our newscasts with relatives back home or to see news in their language of comfort when they have to leave the country, or simply to stay current if they missed an episode – and with the launch of OMNI News: Online Edition, now they can."
OMNI News: Online Edition will be posted shortly after the original broadcast. Each edition will run from 20 to 30 minutes and be largely focused on local news as covered by OMNI News reporters, with national and international content featured according to the daily line-up.
