Michael Melling has been appointed vice-president of CTV News, the network has announced. Melling is the former general manager of CTV News Toronto, CP24 and BNN Bloomberg. In this role, he will take helm of all news, information and current events programming including CTV News, BNN Bloomberg, CP24, as well as the current affairs shows Power Play, Question Period and W5.
Melling joined Bell Media in 2003, working as
an editorial assistant at BNN Bloomberg. Since then, he has held senior roles
in Toronto and Southwestern Ontario and has helped grow the digital news
formats of CTV News Toronto and CP24.
Melling replaces Wendy Freeman who was the
head of CTV News for the past 12 years. She announced in December that she
would be stepping down at the end of 2021.
