On 1 September 2011, chief news anchor Lloyd Robertson retired after 35 years at the helm of the flagship.

[2] In September 2023 BellMedia celebrated long-time news anchor Sandie Rinaldo's 50th year with the franchise.

[3] On 26 September 2024 CTV News admitted that it had altered or manipulated a clip of Pierre Poilievre broadcast the previous Sunday.

[7] On February 8, 2024, Bell announced the cancellation of CTV's long-running newsmagazine W5 as part of budgetary and staff cuts.

[8] The national news operation also briefly produced a roughly ten-minute national and international news summary, anchored by Heather Butts, which was embedded in CTV O&Os' weekend early evening newscasts from November 2023 to February 2024,[9] when the majority of local weekend newscasts were cancelled.

Beginning in February 2014, local programs were rebranded using region-specific on-air titles such as CTV News Toronto.

Bell will also expand multimedia journalist models to Atlantic Canada, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec and Saskatchewan.

Independent affiliates also air their own local newscasts, such as NTV (which despite dropping CTV's entertainment programming in 2002, still provides coverage of Newfoundland for CTV News and airs its national newscasts), and CITL-TV (which airs Prime Time Local News, a production shared with its sister station, Global affiliate (now Citytv affiliate) CKSA-TV).