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The veteran newsanchor has signed a three-year contract that will keep him in the network's top news seat until 1999.
"The end of the century's kind of a nice time to reassess your life again - when those digits change," Robertson, 61, said yesterday.
Robertson had planned to leave this fall to make way for Keith Morrison. Since CTV fired Morrison in April, they've been trying to persuade Robertson to extend his reign.
One project originally intended to keep him busy after leaving the anchor desk continued anyway. The second of three hourlong feature specials, Lloyd Robertson In China, airs tonight at 10. Included are interviews with a former government minister who spent three years as a political prisoner, a TV anchorwoman fired after talking about the Tienanmen massacre on U.S. TV, and a young singer trying to make it in Western-style rock 'n' roll.
Robertson and crew were closely monitored during their time in China in June, accompanied everywhere by government "minders."
"What we had at one stage was four of them and four of us."