Matt Skube announces decision to sign off from CTV News Ottawa at the end of April

CTV News at Five anchor Matt Skube has announced he is leaving Ottawa at the end of April after 11 years with CTV News.

Matt Skube will sign off as anchor of CTV News at Five and CTV News at 11:30 at the end of April after more than 11 years as a member of the CTV News Ottawa team.

Skube announced during CTV News at Five Monday evening that he will be leaving CTV News Ottawa on April 29, as his family embarks on a “new adventure.”

“I want to thank the entire CTV News team in Ottawa for their relentless work and dedication to telling the stories that are important to this community. It was a special team to be a part of for more than 11 years and one that I will miss dearly,” Skube said.

“I also want to thank the viewers and listeners in the national capital region, eastern Ontario and western Quebec. Thank you for always sharing your voices and your feedback, good or bad. It has been an honour to share your stories, one that I never took for granted. You are the heartbeat of what makes this community a special place to live.”

Skube joined CTV News Ottawa as the weekend weather anchor in 2013, before helping to launch CTV News at Five.

“When I hired Matt, he applied to do sports, but he included about 10-seconds of him doing the weather on his demo reel – so instead I hired him to do weather,” Peter Angione, Director of News and Information Programming with Bell Media Ottawa, said. “From that part-time weather role, Matt eventually moved to news as weekend anchor and hosting a weekend radio show on Newstalk 580 CFRA. He helped us successfully launch CTV News at Five. He has appeared as a prominent news anchor on all our local newscasts.”

In addition to anchoring CTV News at Five and CTV News at 11:30, Skube has supported numerous events and causes, including CHEO, Ronald McDonald House, Kids Help Phone and the Salvation Army’s Toy Mountain campaign.

After growing up in Thunder Bay, Skube attended St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia before enrolling at the College of Sports Media in Toronto. He landed his first broadcasting job at Thunder Bay Television after graduation before moving to Ottawa.