Lloyd RobertsonOC (born January 19, 1934) is a Canadian journalist and former news anchor who is special correspondent on CTV's weekly magazine series, W5. Robertson served as the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV's national evening newscast, CTV News with Lloyd Robertson, from 1984 to 2011, when he retired from the CTV National News team. He co-hosted W5 from 2011 to 2016.
Robertson has covered many major events throughout his career, including the 1967 opening of Expo 67 in Montreal, the 1969 Moon landing (along with Percy Saltzman), many Olympic Games, Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope, the patriation of the Constitution of Canada, both the 1980 Quebec referendum and the 1995 Quebec referendum on separation from Canada, many federal elections, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the September 11 attacks in 2001, and the power outage crisis on both sides of the border of August 14, 2003.
On the scene, he has covered the construction of the Berlin Wall, the deaths of four former Canadian prime ministers, the elections of nearly half of Canada's prime ministers, state funerals, and royal, papal, and U.S. presidential visits. His name was also the basis for the satirical news anchor character Floyd Robertson, portrayed by Joe Flaherty on the Canadian TV comedy series SCTV.
LloydRobertson OC (born January 19, 1934) is a Canadian journalist and former news anchor who is special correspondent on CTV's weekly magazine series...
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chief anchor and senior editor of CTV National News. She replaced LloydRobertson in this role on September 5, 2011. LaFlamme previously served as the...
anchor LloydRobertson until 1995, when he was ousted in a network shakeup. It was believed at the time that he was campaigning to replace Robertson. While...
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members of the SCTV news team are named after Canadian news anchors LloydRobertson and Earl Cameron, respectively, but otherwise bear no resemblance to...
of World Beat News at CTV Toronto John Roberts, co-hosted Canada AM LloydRobertson, co-host of W5 and former CTV National News anchor Teresa Roncon, former...
Floyd Robertson's name was originally derived from that of CBC news anchor LloydRobertson. Shortly after Floyd Robertson debuted, LloydRobertson changed...
remembrances from their "big three" anchors, Peter Mansbridge at the CBC, LloydRobertson at CTV, and Kevin Newman (himself a former colleague of Jennings at...
until 11 pm daily, taking breaks only for newscasts. Ted Reynolds and LloydRobertson co-hosted coverage of the opening ceremonies. In 1976, CBC Sports began...
on One, in which he interviewed newsmakers. With the retirement of LloydRobertson of CTV National News on September 1, 2011, Mansbridge became the longest-serving...
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amusement park La Ronde. During the original 1967 CBC broadcast, reporter LloydRobertson mentioned the estimated audience numbers on air. "The Film". Fulford...
coverage when it convinced star CBC news anchor LloydRobertson to switch networks in 1976. (Robertson served as the network's main anchorman until 2011)...
The National and, in 1976, he became the broadcast's anchorman after LloydRobertson moved to CTV News. In 1978 Kent agreed to step down as anchorman of...
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