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==Canada==
In Canada, historically local television stations produced a significant volume of local programming, including newscasts, locally or regionally oriented talk shows, and variety entertainment programs such as ''[[Tiny Talent Time]]'' or ''[[Homegrown Cafe]]''; a few stations, most notably [[CHCH-DT|CHCH-TV]] in [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], [[Ontario]], also distributed some of their local programming more widely through [[television syndication]].
With the cross-national [[consolidation of media ownership|consolidation]] of Canadian media ownership in the 1990s and 2000s, network-affiliated stations now rarely produce much more than their own local or regional newscasts, although some stations may continue to produce a small amount of additional local programming. Independent stations may produce more local programming, although such stations are now rare in the Canadian media landscape. In radio, virtually all Canadian commercial radio stations are officially programmed locally, although many stations cut costs by contracting some dayparts out to [[voice-tracking|voice-tracked]] hosts who are not actually located in the station's physical studio or even necessarily in the same city. The [[CBC Radio One]], [[CBC Radio 2]] and [[Ici Radio-Canada Première]] networks consist primarily of networked programming, although all include some degree of local programming in certain time blocks. Radio One and Première stations each have a significant number of production centres which create and air their own local morning and/or afternoon talk shows, while Radio 2's local content is largely limited to local news and weather updates. See also [[CBC Radio One local programming]].
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