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The top 10 neighbors for CTV News span five distinct subcategories — no single kind dominates — which is the defining feature of a broad audience shape.
The two strongest neighbors are fellow News Publishers: CBC News Alerts at 0.81 and CBC News at 0.77. Both are Canadian broadcast news properties, and their scores sit noticeably above the rest of the field. After that, the similarity curve flattens and the neighbor set diversifies sharply. Ken Rutkowski (0.67) and Jeffrey Levin (0.66) are Journalists, not News Publishers — a cross-kind signal that individual media figures share audience shape with the outlet. Then comes Debra Messing at 0.66, an Actor, followed by The Globe and Mail at 0.66, a third News Publisher. Rosie O'Donnell (0.65, TV Personalities), Stormy Daniels (0.65, Reality TV Stars), Barbra Streisand (0.64, Musicians and Bands), and Jane Fonda (0.64, Actors) round out the ten.
Tallying the top 10: three News Publishers, two Journalists, three Actors, one TV Personality, one Reality TV Star, and one Musician — with scores compressed between 0.64 and 0.81 after the CBC pair. The cross-kind presence of actors, a TV personality, and a reality star alongside news outlets suggests an audience that follows politically engaged celebrity voices as readily as it follows institutional news sources.
The broad shape here reflects an audience that is not narrowly defined by news consumption alone — it extends into the orbit of culturally and politically vocal public figures.
