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Colleen Schmidt

Managing Digital Producer | CTVNews.ca & BNNBloomberg.ca
Toronto
Colleen Schmidt

Colleen Schmidt is the Managing Digital Producer for CTV News and BNN Bloomberg. 

Colleen joined CTV News Calgary in 1996 as an ENG news editor and spent 10+ years as the Digital News Supervisor, managing all digital properties, digital strategy and the daily delivery of news and social media content.

She moved to Toronto in 2019 to join the Product Team and spent four years as a product lead for CTVNews.ca before returning to the Content Team.

Colleen graduated with honours from SAIT’s broadcasting program and also has advanced certification in web development and design, computer science, professional management and product management.

Colleen has extensive experience in digital and broadcast news and has reported on and led digital teams through several elections and breaking news events including; the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous high-profile crime cases, Olympic initiatives and the historic floods in southern Alberta in 2013.

She has travelled throughout India, Nepal and several other countries to document humanitarian relief efforts during times of crisis and received a number of nominations and commendations for her work. 

Colleen speaks English.

Colleen has received three Bell Excellence Awards, three Edward R. Murrow Awards, several RTDNA Awards and five Canadian Online Publishing Awards while employed with CTV News.

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Tara Nelson - CTV News at 6

CTV News Calgary is southern Alberta's trusted source for local breaking news and weather and our legacy of news innovation and community involvement continues as we celebrate nearly 60 years in broadcasting.

On September 9, 1960, CTV News Calgary (CFCN) went on the air for the first time and was the first independent television station in Canada.

The first broadcast was a 30-minute news program, followed by two movies, bringing then owner H. Gordon Love’s life-long dream to reality.

CFCN became a member of the Canadian Television Network (CTV) in October 1961 and one of the station’s longest running shows, The Buck Shot Show, started in 1967.

CTV News Calgary, created a number of firsts in Canadian television, as an owned and operated local of CTV News.
 

  • First to produce a Canadian Football League game from the prairies for CTV
  • Instituting instant replay in Western Canada
  • Brought Crime Stoppers to Calgary
  • Initiated Child Find on television

Canada’s largest telecommunications company, Bell Canada Enterprises, has owned CTV News Calgary since 2000.

CTV News Calgary’s trusted team of top-notch videojournalists and producers are dedicated to providing the best in local news programming to southern Alberta online, on-the-air and in the community.

Join us each weekday for CTV Morning Live Calgary, News at Noon, News at 5, News at 6 and News at 11:30 and on weekends for the News at 6.

Keep up with the news when it happens and subscribe to our Breaking News email alerts HERE.

Watch the newscasts you missed online HERE.