Tom Clark left CTV’s Power Play after the broadcaster cancelled plans to offer him an anchoring position on the national news, Howard Bernstein, a former television producer who has worked for most of the major English networks in Canada, wrote on his blog Wednesday.

“I understand that Tom was upset that he didn’t get Lloyd Robertson’s job. After more than three decades of hard work, it had to have come as a severe blow to see someone else get the job he had coveted and felt he had worked so hard for,” Bernstein, a broadcasting industry insider, wrote on his blog, Medium Close Up.

CTV announced in July that longtime CTV broadcaster Lisa LaFlamme will take Robertson’s spot in the anchor’s chair next year.

But Bernstein wrote that CTV had plans for LaFlamme and Clark to co-host the national news.

“I don’t know why Lisa Laflamme got the job. I do know that CTV’s original plans were for Lisa and Tom to co-host the news. Where that went awry I don’t know,” Bernstein wrote.

Clark, host of CTV’s parliamentary political program Power Play, announced Tuesday that he is leaving the network after almost 40 years with the broadcaster.

The announcement comes just before the fall parliamentary session that begins on Sept. 20.

Clark first announced his resignation on Twitter where he wrote, “suffice to say there is no more PowerPlay with Tom Clark.” 

Prior to hosting Power Play, Clark worked as CTV’s Washington bureau chief. During his career he covered several war zones and almost every Canadian federal election since 1974.

In a short press release, CTV said Clark was leaving to “pursue other opportunities.”

CTV did not announce a replacement.