CBC News The National (formerly titled and still most commonly billed as The National) is the flagship national television news program of CBC News, the news division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Canada. It reports on major Canadian and international news stories, airing on CBC Television weeknights and Sundays at 10:00 p.m. local time (10:30 p.m. NT). On Saturdays, a 30-minute edition is generally aired at 6:00 p.m. ET during the season of Hockey Night in Canada (or if other live CBC Sports broadcasts are scheduled for that evening), and 6:00 local (7:00 AT, 7:30 NT) otherwise. Certain stations carry local newscasts in that timeslot instead. Since September 2007, The National has been aired in HDTV, the first Canadian national newscast to do so.