The TUESDAY INTERVIEW: The new news, with Global National anchor Kevin Newman

TORONTO – Are there enough viewers looking for national and international news at 5:30 in the afternoon? Anchor Kevin Newman (below) and the crew at Global National and Global Television think so. But, when conventional wisdom says that news consumers aren’t home yet at 5:30, Global's relocation of Global National to a consistent (almost) national time slot which is basically before dinner for working families, the risk isn’t a small one. Parallels are being drawn to CBC's attempted re-making of The National into Prime Time News, moving their flagship news show from 10 p.m. to 9 p.m. in November 1992...