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Canadian broadcast TV network

"Global TV" redirects here. For other uses, see [Global (disambiguation) § Television](/source/Global_(disambiguation)#Television).

Not to be confused with [TV Globo](/source/TV_Globo).

Television channel

Global Television Network Type Terrestrial television network Country Canada Broadcast area Canada parts of the United States via cable or antenna, depending on location Affiliates See § Global stations Headquarters Corus Quay, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Programming Picture format 1080i HDTV Ownership Owner Corus Entertainment Key people Jennifer Abrams (senior vice president, programming and platform, Corus Entertainment) Sister channels Home Network Flavour Network W Network Slice National Geographic Nat Geo Wild History Showcase DTour Global Reality Channel History Launched January 6, 1974; 52 years ago (1974-01-06) (original system in Ontario) August 18, 1997; 28 years ago (1997-08-18) (national network) Founder Al Bruner Peter Hill Former names CanWest Global System (used in the 1990s on non-Global branded Canwest stations) Links Website www.globaltv.com

The **Global Television Network** (more commonly called **Global**, or occasionally **Global TV**) is a [Canadian](/source/Television_in_Canada) English-language terrestrial television network. It is currently Canada's second most-watched private terrestrial television network after [CTV](/source/CTV_Television_Network), and has fifteen [owned-and-operated stations](/source/Owned-and-operated_station) throughout the country. Global is owned by [Corus Entertainment](/source/Corus_Entertainment) — the media holdings of [JR Shaw](/source/JR_Shaw) and other members of his family.

Global has its origins in a [regional television station](/source/CIII-DT) of the same name, serving [Southern Ontario](/source/Southern_Ontario), which launched in 1974. The Ontario station was soon purchased by the now-defunct [CanWest Global Communications](/source/Canwest), and that company gradually expanded its national reach in the subsequent decades through both acquisitions and new station launches, building up a quasi-network of independent stations, known as the **CanWest Global System**, until the stations were unified under the Ontario station's branding in 1997.

## History

### NTV

The network has its origins in NTV, a new network first proposed in 1966 by [Hamilton](/source/Hamilton%2C_Ontario) media proprietor [Ken Soble](/source/Ken_Soble), the co-founder and owner of independent station [CHCH-TV](/source/CHCH-DT) through his Niagara Television company.[1] Financially backed by [Power Corporation of Canada](/source/Power_Corporation_of_Canada), Soble submitted a brief to the [Board of Broadcast Governors](/source/Board_of_Broadcast_Governors) in 1966 proposing a national [satellite](/source/Broadcast_satellite)-fed network.[2] Under the plan, Soble's company would launch Canada's first broadcast satellite and would use it to relay the programming of CHCH to 96 new transmitters across Canada.[3] Soble died in December of that year; his widow, Frances, took over as president of Niagara Television,[4] while former [CTV](/source/CTV_Television_Network) executive Michael Hind-Smith and Niagara Television vice-president [Al Bruner](/source/Al_Bruner) handled the network application.[5] Soble had originally formulated the plan after failing in a bid to acquire CTV.[1]

The original proposal was widely criticized on various grounds, including claims that it exceeded the board's [concentration of media ownership](/source/Concentration_of_media_ownership) limits and that it was overly ambitious and financially unsustainable.[6] As well, it failed to include any plan for local news content on any of its individual stations beyond possibly the metropolitan [Toronto](/source/Toronto), [Montreal](/source/Montreal), and [Vancouver](/source/Vancouver) markets.[6]

By 1968, NTV put forward its first official licence application, under which the original 96 transmitters would be supplemented by 43 more transmitters to distribute a separate French-language service,[7] along with provisions for the free distribution of [CBC Television](/source/CBC_Television), [Radio-Canada](/source/Ici_Radio-Canada_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9), and a new noncommercial educational television service on the network's satellite.[7] Transponder space would also be leased to CTV and [Télé-Métropole](/source/CFTM-DT), but as competing commercial services, they would not have been granted the free distribution rights the plan offered to the public television services.[7] However, after federal communications minister [Paul Hellyer](/source/Paul_Hellyer) announced plans to move forward with the publicly owned [Anik](/source/Anik_(satellite)) series of broadcast satellites through [Telesat Canada](/source/Telesat_Canada) instead of leaving the rollout of satellite technology in the hands of private corporations, Power Corporation backed out of the application and left NTV in limbo.[8]

### Global Communications

The original logo (1974–1997) of Global featured a stylized "G".

Bruner was fired from Niagara Television in 1969, purportedly because his efforts to rescue the network application were leading him to neglect his other duties with the company's existing media operations.[9] He then put together another investment team to form Global Communications, which carried the network application forward thereafter.[10] By 1970, the [Canadian Radio and Television Commission](/source/Canadian_Radio-television_and_Telecommunications_Commission) had put out a formal call for "third" stations in several major cities. Global Communications put forward a revised application under which the network would launch with transmitters only in [Ontario](/source/Ontario), as an interim step toward the eventual buildout of the entire network originally envisioned by Soble.[8] Because Niagara Television and CHCH were no longer involved in the proposal, the 1970 application also requested a licence to launch a new station in Toronto as the chain's flagship.

The network licence was approved by the CRTC on July 21, 1972.[11] The group was granted a six-transmitter network in [Southern Ontario](/source/Southern_Ontario), stretching from [Windsor](/source/Windsor%2C_Ontario) to [Ottawa](/source/Ottawa).[12] They had also sought a seventh transmitter in [Maxville](/source/Maxville%2C_Ontario) that would have nominally served [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall%2C_Ontario) but could reach [Montreal](/source/Montreal),[13][12] but were turned down because of a CRTC moratorium on new English stations in the Montreal market.[11] The transmitters would all be fed from a central studio in Toronto.[12] The group promised a high level of [Canadian content](/source/Canadian_content) and agreed not to accept local advertising.

The station's initial plan was to broadcast only during prime time hours from 5 p.m. to midnight, while leasing daytime hours to the [Ontario Educational Communications Authority](/source/Ontario_Educational_Communications_Authority) to broadcast educational programming.[11] However, the offer never came to fruition, with the OECA opting instead to expand what would eventually become [TVOntario](/source/TVOntario) by launching its own transmitters.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

The new Global Television Network, with the callsign [CKGN-TV](/source/CIII-DT) (now CIII-DT), launched on January 6, 1974,[12] from studios located at a former factory in the [Don Mills](/source/Don_Mills) neighbourhood in [North York](/source/North_York) (now in Toronto) at 6 p.m.[13] local time. Global remains based there today. Although the Ontario station has always been based in Toronto, its main transmitter was licensed to [Paris](/source/Paris%2C_Ontario); halfway between [Kitchener-Waterloo](/source/Regional_Municipality_of_Waterloo) and Hamilton, transmitting on Channel 6, until 2009. Repeating transmitters were originally located near [Windsor](/source/Windsor%2C_Ontario) on Channel 22; [Sarnia](/source/Sarnia), Channel 29, [Uxbridge](/source/Uxbridge%2C_Ontario) on Channel 22, to serve the metro Toronto area; [Bancroft](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bsncroft,_Ontario&action=edit&redlink=1), on Channel 2; and [Hull, Quebec](/source/Hull%2C_Quebec), to cover the Ottawa area, on Channel 6.

### Launch

Global's original prime time schedule included [Patrick Watson](/source/Patrick_Watson_(journalist))'s documentary series *[Witness to Yesterday](/source/Witness_to_Yesterday)*, [Pierre Berton](/source/Pierre_Berton)'s political debate show *[The Great Debate](/source/The_Great_Debate_(Canadian_TV_series))*, a Canadian edition of [Bernard Braden](/source/Bernard_Braden)'s British consumer affairs newsmagazine *The Braden Beat*, [William Shatner](/source/William_Shatner)'s film talk show *[Flick Flack](/source/Flick_Flack)*, Sunday night [Toronto Toros](/source/Toronto_Toros) hockey games and a nightly variety series called *[Everything Goes](/source/Everything_Goes_(Canadian_TV_series))*,[12] as well as a few imported American series, including *[Chopper One](/source/Chopper_One)*, *[Dirty Sally](/source/Dirty_Sally),* and *[Doc Elliot](/source/Doc_Elliot)*. In March, the station drew a formal complaint from MP [James McGrath](/source/James_McGrath_(Canadian_politician)) against its airing of the 1969 Western film *[Heaven with a Gun](/source/Heaven_with_a_Gun)*, as the film featured scenes of violence that McGrath considered inappropriate.[14]

The station ran into a financial crisis within just three months. Due to the CRTC decision, it was forced to launch at midseason. Many companies had already allocated their advertising budgets for the season and had little money left to buy time on the newly minted network,[15] and even some of the advertisers who had booked time on the network backed out in light of the [1973 oil crisis](/source/1973_oil_crisis).[16] In addition, the short-lived American adoption of year-round [daylight saving time](/source/Daylight_saving_time) in January 1974 and the Ontario government's refusal to follow suit had unexpectedly forced *Everything Goes*, promoted as the network's flagship show, into airing directly opposite *[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson](/source/The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Johnny_Carson)* and thus attracting disastrous ratings.[17] As a result of the crisis, the station quickly lost access to its line of credit.[15]

Unable to meet daily expenses, Global initially approached potential bidders, including [Channel Seventynine](/source/CITY-DT), [Denison Mines](/source/Denison_Mines), [Standard Broadcasting](/source/Standard_Broadcasting), and the [Jim Pattison Group](/source/Jim_Pattison_Group),[15] and was soon bailed out by IWC Communications, owned by broadcaster [Allan Slaight](/source/Allan_Slaight), and Global Ventures Western Ltd., a syndicate that included Winnipeg movie theatre owner [Paul Morton](/source/Paul_Morton_(television_executive)) and [Izzy Asper](/source/Izzy_Asper), a [Manitoba](/source/Manitoba) politician turned broadcaster.[18] Asper's company, CanWest Capital, was in the process of obtaining the licence for what would become [CKND-TV](/source/CKND-DT) in Winnipeg, which planned to carry some of Global's programs under a syndication deal.[18]

### 1970s–1990s

In the spring of 1974, Global cancelled a significant number of its scheduled programs. By that fall, it was obvious that Global's original model was unsustainable, and it was forced to pick up a large amount of American programming to fill in the gaps. With American imports filling as much of the schedule as Canadian content rules would allow (60% Canadian overall, 50% Canadian in prime time), Global had effectively become "another [CTV](/source/CTV_Television_Network)."[19] With the exception of the nightly newscasts, few other Canadian-produced programs remained on the station, and the ones that did exist were largely criticized as cheaply produced filler.[19] John Spalding, the station's original program director, quit in 1975 after being unable to convince the station's owners to invest more money into higher-quality production.[20] To replace him, the company recruited programmer Bill Stewart away from CKCO-TV, Kitchener. Stewart's savvy program purchases in the ensuing years were largely credited with keeping the network viable while its viewership grew. The company enhanced its senior talent pool in 1979 with the arrival of sales guru Dave Mintz, formerly of [KVOS-TV](/source/KVOS-TV), as the network's president,[21] a post he held until his retirement in 1993, taking Global from the lowest-rated station in Toronto to the ratings leader along the way.[22] Over several years, the prime late evening newscast shifted between 10 and 11 p.m. and between 30 and 60 minutes. CKGN changed its callsign to [CIII-TV](/source/CIII-DT) in 1984, deferring to its widespread CATV distribution on Cable 3.

Asper bought a controlling interest in 1985, making him the first western-based owner of a major Canadian broadcaster. In 1989, Asper and Morton tried to buy each other out, a struggle that was resolved in favour of Asper and Canwest.

For its first decade, the network remained restricted to its six-transmitter chain in Ontario. However, soon after Asper bought controlling interest in Global, he seemed eager to grow his chain of stations into a third national network. He started by launching [CFRE-DT](/source/CFRE-DT) in [Regina](/source/Regina%2C_Saskatchewan) and [CFSK-DT](/source/CFSK-DT) in [Saskatoon](/source/Saskatoon),[23][24] and winning a legal battle for [CKVU-DT](/source/CKVU-DT) in Vancouver[25] during the second half of the 1980s. He also acquired the fledgling [CIHF-DT](/source/CIHF-DT) in [Halifax](/source/Halifax%2C_Nova_Scotia) in the early 1990s.[26] Canwest's stations now reached seven of Canada's ten provinces. The Canwest stations purchased many of their programs collectively, and consequently had similar—although not identical—broadcast schedules. They did not share common branding, however—although stations were sometimes indicated as being part of the "CanWest Global System" as a secondary brand, throughout the 1980s and early 1990s they each retained their own branding and continued to function as an ownership group of independent stations rather than as a fully unified network.

The second logo (1997–2006) of Global, which debuted with its formal rebranding as a national network. The crescent motif was also used on the logos of other Canwest properties such as [CH](/source/CH_(television_system)), [Prime](/source/Prime_(Canadian_TV_channel)), and [Mystery TV](/source/Mystery_TV), and is still featured on [DejaView](/source/DejaView)'s logo.

In 1997, Canwest bought a controlling interest in the [CBC](/source/CBC_Television) affiliate in [Quebec City](/source/Quebec_City), [CKMI-TV](/source/CKMI-DT), from [TVA](/source/TVA_(Canada)).[27] It was an open secret that Global was using CKMI as a vehicle to fulfill its quarter-century quest to get a station in Montreal, by some distance the largest market where it had no presence at all. [28]

With the acquisition of CKMI (though TVA retained a minority interest until 2002), Canwest now had enough coverage of Canada that it seemed logical to rebrand its station group as a network. Accordingly, on August 18, 1997, Canwest scrubbed all local branding from its stations and rebranded them as the "Global Television Network," the brand previously used solely by the Ontario outlet. A month later, CKMI disaffiliated from CBC, set up rebroadcasters in Montreal and [Sherbrooke](/source/Sherbrooke), and became the Quebec outlet of the newly minted network. It also built a new studio in Montreal and moved most of its operations there, though the licence nominally remained in Quebec City until 2009. Canwest's acquisition of CKMI expanded Global's reach to eight of Canada's 10 largest markets, with only rebroadcasters serving Ottawa and Montreal.

Even so, Global was still not a fully national network, as it did not have stations in [Calgary](/source/Calgary) and [Edmonton](/source/Edmonton). The CRTC turned down bids by Canwest for stations in those cities in the 1980s. As a result, Global continued its long-standing secondary affiliations in those cities on independent stations [CICT-TV](/source/CICT-DT) and [CITV-TV](/source/CITV-DT), respectively. Similarly, Global lacked a full-time station in [St. John's](/source/St._John's%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador), where Global programming was carried by longtime CTV affiliate [CJON-TV](/source/CJON-DT).

### 2000s

In 2000, Canwest acquired the conventional television assets of [Western International Communications](/source/Western_International_Communications) (WIC).[29] WIC's stations in Calgary, Edmonton, and [Lethbridge](/source/Lethbridge) had been airing some Global programs since 1988, and those stations formally joined the network on September 4, 2000.

The following fall, WIC's long-dominant Vancouver station [CHAN-TV](/source/CHAN-DT) was brought into the fold after its existing affiliation agreement with CTV expired, setting off [a sweeping realignment](/source/2001_Vancouver_TV_realignment) of television affiliations in southwestern British Columbia. Indeed, one main reason why Canwest bought WIC's television assets was because of CHAN's enormous translator network, which covered 97% of British Columbia. Global's previous Vancouver station, [CKVU-TV](/source/CKVU-DT), as well as WIC-owned Montreal CTV affiliate [CFCF-TV](/source/CFCF-DT), were sold off. WIC's remaining stations were maintained as [twinstick](/source/Duopoly_(broadcasting)#Canada) stations and were eventually integrated into a secondary system known as CH (rebranded as [E!](/source/E!_(Canadian_TV_system)) in 2007 in a partnership with [the American channel of the same name](/source/E!)), although financial pressures forced Canwest to sell or fold the E! stations in 2009.

Full network service is still not available over-the-air in [Newfoundland and Labrador](/source/Newfoundland_and_Labrador). However, CJON, having disaffiliated from CTV in 2002, now clears the vast majority of Global programming in that province, most recently adding the network's national newscast in mid-2009. Any remaining programs there may be accessed on cable or satellite through Global stations from other markets (most commonly Edmonton's CITV) or through the network's website.

Following Canwest's purchase of [Southam Newspapers](/source/Southam_Newspapers) (later Canwest Publishing) and the *[National Post](/source/National_Post)* from [Conrad Black](/source/Conrad_Black) in 2001, their media interests were merged under a policy of [cross-promotion](/source/Cross-promotion) and [synergy](/source/Synergy). Journalists from the *Post* and other Canwest papers made frequent appearances on Global's news programs, passengers on the now-defunct serial drama *[Train 48](/source/Train_48)* habitually read the *Post*, and Global programs were promoted in Canwest newspapers. However, this practice has now been largely abandoned, particularly after Canwest's breakup in 2010.

In late 2004, with CTV beginning to dominate the ratings, Canwest reorganized its Canadian operations and hired a number of new executives, all formerly of various U.S. media firms, leading to a major overhaul of Global that was announced in December 2005. The most obvious change was a new logo, replacing the "crescent" with a new "[greater than](/source/Greater_than)" logo, with the Global wordmark in a new font, that was introduced on February 5, 2006 (coinciding with Global's broadcast of [Super Bowl XL](/source/Super_Bowl_XL)).[30] New logos and graphics were designed for news and network promotions, and several newscasts received new timeslots and formats. The company subsequently removed the crescent, which had been a common design element in many Canwest logos, from other properties it owned or sponsored over time.

On April 10, 2008, the network announced that its Toronto and Vancouver stations would start broadcasting their over-the-air signals in those markets in [high definition](/source/High-definition_television). CIII and CHAN officially started transmitting in HD on April 18, 2008.[31] The network has also launched digital signals at its stations in [Calgary](/source/Calgary) ([CICT-DT](/source/CICT-DT)) and [Edmonton](/source/Edmonton) ([CITV-DT](/source/CITV-DT)) as of July 2009.

### 2010s

Following Canwest seeking [creditor protection](/source/Bankruptcy_protection) in late 2009, [Shaw Communications](/source/Shaw_Communications) acquired Canwest's broadcasting assets on October 27, 2010, and folded them into a new division, [Shaw Media](/source/Shaw_Media), of which Global is the flagship.[32] Canwest's newspaper assets had been sold off earlier in the year as [Postmedia Network](/source/Postmedia_Network).

On April 1, 2016, Shaw Media was sold to [Corus Entertainment](/source/Corus_Entertainment), a sister company to Shaw Communications. In approving the transaction, the CRTC noted that Corus and Shaw shared a common *de facto* owner in Shaw founder [JR Shaw](/source/JR_Shaw), and treated the two companies as "a single voice" under the CRTC's rules on diversity of ownership. For this reason, while the deal was marketed as an acquisition, the CRTC treated it as a corporate reorganization for regulatory purposes.[33][34]

## Television listings

In television listings such as *[TV Guide](/source/TV_Guide_(Canada))*, where space limitations usually require television networks to be referred to by a three-letter abbreviation, the abbreviations "GLO," "GLB," or "GTV" are commonly used, depending on the publication. None of these abbreviations has any standing as an official name for the network, however—the network's own short form name for itself is always "Global."

## Programming

Main article: [List of programs broadcast by Global Television Network](/source/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Global_Television_Network)

### News

Main article: [Global News](/source/Global_News)

Global News is the news and current affairs division of the Global Television Network, which is based in Vancouver. National programs broadcast by the division include Global's flagship national newscast *[Global National](/source/Global_National)* and newsmagazine shows such as *[16x9](/source/16x9_(TV_series))*. The network also offers various amounts of local news programming on its eleven O&Os. Local news programming on most of Global's O&Os mirror the newscast schedules of many U.S. television stations; most Global-owned stations carry a morning newscast of three or four hours in length, a noon newscast, supper hour newscasts of between 30 and 90 minutes and a half-hour to hour-long late evening newscast. Global-owned stations in certain major markets also carry locally based [public affairs](/source/Public_affairs_(broadcasting)) programs under the *Focus* brand.

In addition, Corus also operates several Global-branded news/talk radio stations across Canada under the *Global News Radio* moniker.

### Entertainment

Global does not have what can be called a main schedule, apart from news. Even before the WIC purchase, the Global stations had widely varying program lineups, and the WIC purchase only exacerbated the differences. For example, CHAN held the British Columbia rights to many shows that aired on CTV until 2001, except for *[The Oprah Winfrey Show](/source/The_Oprah_Winfrey_Show)*. Factors influencing the stations' programming include time zone differences, local programming, and ratings for non-Global shows.

Global has built its business on profitable entertainment programming produced in the United States and has long been criticized for not investing enough in [Canadian content](/source/Canadian_content). Canadian programming carried on the network, such as a revival of 1960s American science fiction series *[The Outer Limits](/source/The_Outer_Limits_(1995_TV_series))*, or the Chicago-set drama *[Zoe Busiek: Wild Card](/source/Wild_Card_(TV_series))*, has often avoided Canadian themes, presumably to focus on sales to United States and international [cable](/source/Cable_television) or [syndication](/source/Television_syndication) markets – although *[Psi Factor](/source/Psi_Factor)* did include Canadian themes, including a "killer wheat" episode and episodes set in Northern Quebec and Halifax. Series initially intended for the U.S. and international market are sometimes called "industrial" productions and largely disappeared with the collapse of the international action hour market.

From the late-1990s to the mid-2000s, Global aired somewhat more identifiably Canadian entertainment programming, including the long-running finance drama *[Traders](/source/Traders_(TV_series))*, the British-Canadian animated comedy *[Bob and Margaret](/source/Bob_and_Margaret)*, the police procedural drama *[Blue Murder](/source/Blue_Murder_(Canadian_TV_series))*, the nightly [improvised](/source/Improvisation) drama *[Train 48](/source/Train_48)*, the sitcom *[The Jane Show](/source/The_Jane_Show)* and the reality show *[My Fabulous Gay Wedding](/source/My_Fabulous_Gay_Wedding)*. In 2003, Global signed comedian [Mike Bullard](/source/Mike_Bullard_(television)), host of the nightly *[Open Mike with Mike Bullard](/source/Open_Mike_with_Mike_Bullard)* on [CTV](/source/CTV_Television_Network) and [The Comedy Network](/source/The_Comedy_Network), to a multi-year contract for a new nightly [talk show](/source/The_Mike_Bullard_Show) on Global, but that series was cancelled after 60 episodes amid poor ratings.

Global purchased the rights to produce a Canadian version of the popular entertainment magazine *[Entertainment Tonight](/source/Entertainment_Tonight)*; *[ET Canada](/source/Entertainment_Tonight_Canada)* launched on September 12, 2005. It also secured Canadian production rights to the American [reality series](/source/Reality_series) *[The Apprentice](/source/The_Apprentice_(American_TV_series))*, but a Canadian version of the program never came to fruition. They also produce a Canadian version of the [reality series](/source/Reality_television) *[Big Brother](/source/Big_Brother_Canada)*.

Global, like all Canadian broadcast outlets, benefits from Canada's [simultaneous substitution](/source/Simultaneous_substitution) (or "simsub") regulations, which allow content owners to control programming rights for a particular show in Canada. When an American broadcast network is broadcasting the same show at the same time that Global is (such as the programs mentioned above), Canadian cable subscribers may only watch the Global Television broadcast, even when trying to view the American stations. This law gives them double exposure for their content and a larger share of advertising revenue, effectively blocking American border cities from access to the Canadian market. This was done to help give money to the networks to fund Canadian content development. Global is not the only Canadian broadcaster to use simsubs; nonetheless, some complaints, specific to Global, have arisen due to the following related practices:

- Some Global stations have superimposed the phrase "*on Global*" on a program's main titles, often in a font that poorly replicates that of the title itself. This sometimes meant that a single superimposed version was used with each episode, potentially interfering with running gags within the opening credits. For instance, the opening of *[American Dad!](/source/American_Dad!)* during the early seasons featured a news headline that changed with each episode, but for a time, the same headline might be shown on multiple episodes on Global, an issue that was later rectified. This practice was discontinued altogether with the start of the fall 2006 season.

- Split-screen credits are also used to allow for network promos (as of the 2009–10 season, the show's own stylized production credits are displayed rather than a network-generated uniform credit sequence). On some shows, including *[The Simpsons](/source/The_Simpsons)* and *[Family Guy](/source/Family_Guy)*, there are special closing credits that may use additional scenes or special music that is altered or lost when Global uses a split screen. While the use of split-screen credits is common among networks in Canada and the U.S., how Global treats one program and how the U.S. network treats the same episode may be different.

- In some cases, next-episode previews, such as those on *[The Apprentice](/source/The_Apprentice_(American_TV_series))*, are not shown. This may be because these promos are made in-house by the network (in this case, [NBC](/source/NBC)), and cannot be edited ahead of broadcast.

- Since the late 2000s, several American networks have begun to start certain shows shortly before or after :00 or :30 past the hour to avert audience loss. Global does not necessarily follow this practice, meaning the last few minutes of the preceding show may be lost to those watching the U.S. network. For instance, if NBC schedules *The Apprentice* to start at 9:02, but Global schedules its start for exactly 9:00, the last two minutes of NBC's 8:00 program may be blocked by the Global signal. This is not unique to Global and may vary by service provider, since cable and satellite providers, not the networks, are responsible for scheduling and initiating simsubs.

- If an American program on a U.S. network is delayed due to breaking news or a sporting event on the American network and is scheduled for broadcast at that time on Global, Global will also delay that episode until it starts on the American network to intentionally simsub. One example is an episode of *[House](/source/House_(TV_series))* that aired after [Super Bowl XLII](/source/Super_Bowl_XLII) in 2008 (see below).

- Global was the Canadian broadcast-television rightsholder for the [National Football League](/source/National_Football_League) and, hence, the [Super Bowl](/source/Super_Bowl), through the end of the 2006 season (these rights were bought by [CTV](/source/CTV_Television_Network) starting with the 2007 season). As with any other U.S. network program, Global could and did simsub the American feed. However, the Super Bowl is particularly controversial, as the U.S. network [Super Bowl commercials](/source/Advertising_in_the_Super_Bowl), likely the most anticipated set of commercials of any given year, could not be seen on either Global or the applicable U.S. station. Instead, while some international advertisers (such as [Budweiser](/source/Budweiser_(Anheuser-Busch))) did buy time on Global for the U.S. ads, many Canadian companies simply ran ads introduced long before the game. Nonetheless, in recent years,[*[when?](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items)*] nearly all American commercials have been available via various websites after the game, which may have placated some complainants.

Global cross-promotes heavily with other Corus Entertainment properties in the markets where both services operate in parallel.

On June 6, 2007, the Canadian actors' union [ACTRA](/source/ACTRA) picketed Global's fall [upfronts](/source/Upfronts) presentation to protest the lack of Canadian content on current television network schedules.[35]

### Sports

In 1979, Global – then a regional network in Ontario – purchased the [Toronto Blizzard](/source/Toronto_Blizzard_(NASL)) soccer team and produced and aired coverage of the team's games in-house. The team was not a success on the field, in attendance or ratings, and Global sold the franchise in 1981 but continued to broadcast seven games a year until 1983.[36]

Aside from its brief experiment with soccer, the Global network has never had an in-house sports production division as do CBC, CTV/TSN, & Citytv/Sportsnet. Network sports broadcasts are either [simulcast](/source/Simulcast) with American networks or outsourced to independent producers such as [Molstar](/source/Molson). During the [1987](/source/1987_Stanley_Cup_playoffs) and [1988 Stanley Cup playoffs](/source/1988_Stanley_Cup_playoffs), [Global aired NHL games](/source/NHL_on_Global) syndicated by [Carling O'Keefe](/source/Carling_O'Keefe). Global was the longtime broadcaster of [National Football League](/source/National_Football_League) football games in Canada, an association that ended in 2007 when [CTV](/source/CTV_Television_Network) outbid Global for the NFL broadcast package. The network was a long-time broadcaster of [PGA Tour](/source/PGA_Tour) events.

Beyond event coverage, many Global stations were well known for local late-night sports highlights shows, such as *Sportsline* in Ontario, *[Sports Page](/source/Sports_Page)* in Vancouver (later moved to former sister station [CHEK-TV](/source/CHEK-DT)), *2&7 Sports at 11* in Calgary and *Sports Night* in Edmonton. Most of these programs were later unified under the *Global Sports* brand. However, due to declining audiences, by fall 2005 all but the Ontario program had been cancelled, although stations continued to cover sports in their local newscasts. Global Ontario's sports program was finally cancelled in January 2007; at that point, the station closed its sports department entirely, and for a time outsourced sports coverage to [Sportsnet](/source/Sportsnet) and [The Score / Sportsnet 360](/source/Sportsnet_360).

Some Global O&Os outside of Ontario (such as CHAN Vancouver and CITV Edmonton) continue to feature locally produced sports segments on their local newscasts. On the other hand, the sports segments aired during local newscasts on [CIHF-DT](/source/CIHF-DT) in Saint John and [CKMI-DT](/source/CKMI-DT) in Montreal are produced from CHAN's Vancouver studio, presented by that station's sports anchors.

Until the discontinuation of [Fox Sports World Canada](/source/Fox_Sports_World_Canada), [CKND-DT](/source/CKND-DT) in Winnipeg also produced the *[Fox Soccer Report](/source/Fox_Soccer_Report)*, which was seen on the network and [Fox Soccer](/source/Fox_Soccer) in the United States. It was replaced in 2012 by the [Sportsnet](/source/Sportsnet)-produced *[Fox Soccer News](/source/Soccer_Central)*.

In 2015, Global broadcast coverage of the [Canada West](/source/Canada_West_Universities_Athletic_Association) conference's university football championship, including coverage of one semi-final game, and the [Hardy Cup](/source/Hardy_Trophy) game the following week. The telecasts were produced through [Shaw TV](/source/Shaw_TV)'s *[Canada West Football on Shaw](/source/Canada_West_Football_on_Shaw)* package.[37]

### Video on-demand

Global streams live and on-demand programming via its website and apps for mobile devices and [digital media players](/source/Digital_media_player). In 2020, the Global apps were relaunched to include [streaming for subscribers](/source/TV_Everywhere) of most of Corus Entertainment's specialty channels, mirroring a similar move announced by CTV.[38]

## Global HD

In October 2004, Global launched a [1080i](/source/1080i) [high definition](/source/High-definition_television) simulcast feed of its Toronto station [CIII-TV](/source/CIII-DT) called Global HD and started airing select American programs in HD; some Canadian series such as *[Falcon Beach](/source/Falcon_Beach)* eventually began to be included among its HD programs. At the time, the service was only available via [digital cable](/source/Digital_cable). On April 18, 2008, Global officially launched a digital transmitter in Toronto, making the HD simulcast of CIII-TV available over-the-air. The network also launched an HD simulcast feed of its Vancouver station ([CHAN-TV](/source/CHAN-DT)) on the same day.

Global HD is available nationally via satellite and on digital cable as well as for free [over-the-air](/source/Digital_terrestrial_television) using a regular TV antenna and a digital tuner (included in most new television sets) on the following channels:

City Station OTA digital channel (virtual channel) Calgary, Alberta CICT-DT 41 (2.1) Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island CHNB-DT-14 42 (42.1) Edmonton, Alberta CITV-DT 13 (13.1) Fredericton, New Brunswick CHNB-DT-1 44 (11.1) Halifax, Nova Scotia CIHF-DT 8 (8.1) Kamloops, British Columbia CHKM-DT 22 (6.1) Kelowna, British Columbia CHBC-DT 27 (2.1) CHKL-DT 24 (5.1) Lethbridge, Alberta CISA-DT 7 (7.1) Midland, Ontario CIII-DT-7 7 (7.1) Montreal, Quebec CKMI-DT-1 15 (15.1) Moncton, New Brunswick CHNB-DT-3 27 (27.1) Ottawa, Ontario CIII-DT-6 6 (6.1) Paris, Ontario CIII-DT 17 (6.1) Penticton, British Columbia CHBC-DT-1 32 (13.1) CHKL-DT-1 30 (10.1) Prince George, British Columbia CIFG-DT 29 (12.1) Quebec City, Quebec CKMI-DT 20 (20.1) Regina, Saskatchewan CFRE-DT 11 (11.1) Saint John, New Brunswick CHNB-DT 12 (12.1) Saskatoon, Saskatchewan CFSK-DT 42 (4.1) Sherbrooke, Quebec CKMI-DT-2 10 (15.1) Thunder Bay, Ontario CHFD-DT 4 (4.1) Toronto, Ontario CIII-DT-41 41 (41.1) Vancouver, British Columbia CHAN-DT 22 (8.1) Vernon, British Columbia CHBC-DT-2 20 (7.1) CHKL-DT-2 22 (12.1) Windsor, Ontario CIII-DT-22 22 (22.1) Winnipeg, Manitoba CKND-DT 19 (9.1)

The above noted transmitters were converted to digital by August 31, 2011, as part of Canada's over-the-air transition deadline in mandatory markets from analog to digital. As part of its purchase by Shaw Communications in 2011, Shaw committed to converting all of the network's over-the-air analog transmitters to digital by 2016.

## Global stations

The Global network has long been much more decentralized than either CBC or CTV. For most programs, there is no "network" feed *per se*, and in effect every commercial break is a station break. National advertising is certainly available, but such ads are seamlessly integrated into local ad blocks.

In fact, it is not uncommon to see different lengths of commercial breaks from one station to the next even during identical programming. This occurs even though all Global stations have had their master control operations centralized in Calgary since fall 2006.

From 2010 to 2016, with the exception of CIII-DT in Toronto, stations used sustained on-screen [bugs](/source/Digital_on-screen_graphics) using each station's full local brand as opposed to simply "Global". In September 2016, except for local newscasts, Global has updated its bug back to "Global" without an additional local station city below it.

### Owned-and-operated stations

*Notes:*

- *1) Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters (******) indicate a flagship station of the Global Television Network;*

- *2) Two boldface plus signs appearing following a station's call letters (**++**) indicate a station that was part of the Canwest Global System until it was merged with the Global Television Network brand in 1997;*

City of licence Station Channel TV (RF) Year of affiliation Owned since Notes Calgary, Alberta CICT-DT 2.1 (41) 1988 (as a secondary affiliate) 2000 Master control hub for all owned-and-operated stations until August 29, 2022 Edmonton, Alberta CITV-DT 13.1 (13) 1988 (as a secondary affiliate) 2000 Halifax, Nova Scotia CIHF-DT 8.1 (8) 1988 1994 Kelowna, British Columbia CHBC-DT 2.1 (27) 2009 2000 Kingston, Ontario CKWS-DT 11.1 (11) 2016 (for news programming only; became full-time O&O in 2018) 2016 Lethbridge, Alberta CISA-DT 7.1 (7) 1988 (as a secondary affiliate) 2000 Montreal, Quebec CKMI-DT++ 20.1 (20) 1997 (previously secondary 1982–1992) 1997 Oshawa, Ontario CHEX-DT-2 22.1 (29) 2016 (for news programming only; became full-time O&O in 2018) 2016 Peterborough, Ontario CHEX-DT 12.1 (12) 2016 (for news programming only; became full-time O&O in 2018) 2016 Regina, Saskatchewan CFRE-DT++ 11.1 (11) 1990 1987 Saint John, New Brunswick CHNB-DT 12.1 (12) 1988 1994 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan CFSK-DT++ 4.1 (42) 1990 1987 Toronto, Ontario CIII-DT** 6.1 (6) 1974 1974 Master control hub for all owned-and-operated stations since August 29, 2022 Vancouver, British Columbia CHAN-DT** 8.1 (22) 2001 2000 Studio facilities based in Burnaby, British Columbia Winnipeg, Manitoba CKND-DT++ 9.1 (40) 1975 1985

Several O&Os predate the first appearance of the Global banner in 1974. Specifically, CKMI, CICT, CHBC, CHEX, CISA and CKWS launched in the 1950s as [CBC Television](/source/CBC_Television) [affiliates](/source/Network_affiliate), while CHAN-TV launched in 1960 and soon became Vancouver's original [CTV](/source/CTV_Television_Network) affiliate. All of these were eventually supplanted by network-owned stations or transmitters.

Most of these stations serve their entire province or region through a network of relay stations as a part of the key station's licence, although some of their transmitters may air separate advertising targeted to their local community.

### Affiliates and secondary carriers

City of licence Station Channel TV (RF) Year of affiliation Owner Notes St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador CJON-DT (informal secondary affiliation) 21.1 (21) 2002 Stirling Communications International Nominally an independent station known as "NTV", CJON is sometimes considered a Global affiliate, as Global has been that station's primary source of programming since dropping its primary CTV affiliation in 2002. However, NTV does not always carry the full Global lineup, and continues to air some CTV specials, as well as national newscasts from both networks. Thunder Bay, Ontario CHFD-DT 4.1 (4) 2010 Dougall Media Uses on-air brand "Global Thunder Bay", despite not being an O&O. Previously a CTV affiliate.

### Former stations

#### Owned-and-operated

City of licence Station Year of affiliation Year of disaffiliation Notes Vancouver, British Columbia CKVU-DT 1997 2001 Had to be divested to own CHAN-TV in Vancouver and CHEK-TV in Victoria, sold to CHUM Limited. Currently owned by Rogers Sports & Media as a Citytv O&O. Kenora, Ontario CJBN-TV 2011 2017 Shaw Communications elected not to renew the station's licence. The station closed on January 27, 2017.

#### Secondary affiliates

City of licence Station Year of affiliation Year of disaffiliation Current affiliation Notes Burlington, Vermont/Plattsburgh (city), New York WVNY 1987 1990 ABC Provided coverage of Montreal for the Canadian Football Network, as the Global system did not have any affiliates in Quebec at the time. Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan CKSA-DT 2016 2021 Defunct Previously an affiliate for CBC Television from 1960 until 2016. Became a Citytv affiliate from December 2021 until its closure on May 13, 2025.

### Other Global-branded channels

Main article: [E! (Canadian TV system)](/source/E!_(Canadian_TV_system))

Global previously maintained a secondary [television system](/source/Television_system) similar to [CTV 2](/source/CTV_2). CH was originally launched on February 12, 2001, by [Canwest Global Communications](/source/Canwest) after acquiring the [Western International Communications](/source/Western_International_Communications) properties in 2000. The system was launched in September of that year when the [large network shuffle in Vancouver occurred](/source/2001_Vancouver_TV_realignment), only to provide a secondary schedule parallel to Canwest's larger Global Television Network. It initially focused on airing programs from the U.S. broadcast networks that could not fit on Global's own schedule, to avail of [simultaneous substitution](/source/Simultaneous_substitution) opportunities. The system became "E!" in fall 2007, as a result of a deal with [Comcast](/source/Comcast) to carry programming from that company's U.S.-based [E!: Entertainment Television](/source/E!), although it continued to air much the same American network series in primetime and the afternoon.

The E! television system ceased operations on September 1, 2009, due to low ratings and corporate financial difficulties that eventually led to Canwest filing for [bankruptcy protection](/source/Bankruptcy_protection) and selling its properties to [Shaw Media](/source/Shaw_Media); the E! [O&O stations](/source/Owned-and-operated_station) experienced varied fates ([CHCH](/source/CHCH-DT) [Hamilton](/source/Hamilton%2C_Ontario) and [CJNT](/source/CJNT-DT) Montreal were sold to [Channel Zero](/source/Channel_Zero_(company)), [CHEK](/source/CHEK-DT) [Victoria](/source/Victoria%2C_British_Columbia) was sold to an employee-led group; [CHBC](/source/CHBC-DT) [Kelowna](/source/Kelowna) remained with Canwest and was converted into a Global O&O, and [CHCA](/source/CHCA-TV) [Red Deer](/source/Red_Deer%2C_Alberta) ceased operations outright), while the Pattison Group stations affiliated with the [Rogers Media](/source/Rogers_Media)-owned [Citytv](/source/Citytv) system.[39] As E!, local news and other regional programming, as well as most local community sponsorships on the O&O stations, used local branding (using the callsign branding scheme common with Canadian stations not owned by a network or television system). This decision was at least partly made to avoid confusion with *[E! News](/source/E!_News)*, but likely intended to ensure that local newscasts were not perceived as celebrity-oriented. E! in the U.S. later reached an agreement to bring the channel's brand and programming to Bell Media's [Category 2](/source/Category_A_services) [specialty channel](/source/Specialty_channel) Star! (which had a similar format to E! U.S. and had carried some of its programming prior to the 2007 rebranding of CH), rebranding it as a [Canadian version of E!](/source/E!_(Canadian_TV_channel)) on November 29, 2010.[40]

Other Global-branded channels included the [Global Reality Channel](/source/Global_Reality_Channel) that was devoted to reality shows launched in 2010 and ceased operations in 2012,[41] [Prime](/source/DTour), [DejaView](/source/DejaView) and [Mystery TV](/source/Crime_%26_Investigation_(Canadian_TV_channel)), which the latter three channels formerly wore the previous Global logo.

## See also

- [List of Global Television Network personalities](/source/List_of_Global_Television_Network_personalities)

- [2007 Canada broadcast TV realignment](/source/2007_Canada_broadcast_TV_realignment)

- [CBS](/source/CBS)

- [CITV](/source/CITV-DT)

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## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Global Television Network](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Global_Television_Network).

- [Official website](https://www.globaltv.com)

- [Global Television history at Canadian Communications Foundation](https://web.archive.org/web/20100201012810/http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/networks/networks_Global_Television.html)

v t e Broadcast television networks and systems in Canada Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC Television Ici Radio-Canada Télé English-language commercial Citytv CTV CTV 2 Global French-language commercial TVA Noovo Multicultural Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Omni Television Religious Yes TV indieNET Defunct A-Channel Baton Broadcast System E! Joytv MCTV Northern Access Network Northern Television Réseau Pathonic See also Legislative channels Public broadcasting List of television stations in Canada 2001 Vancouver TV realignment 2007 Canada broadcast TV realignment v t e Additional resources on North American television North America List of local television stations in North America DTV transition North American TV mini-template Canada Canadian networks List of Canadian television networks List of Canadian television channels List of Canadian specialty channels Local Canadian TV stations List of United States stations available in Canada 2001 Vancouver TV realignment 2007 Canada broadcast TV realignment Mexico Mexican networks Local Mexican TV stations United States American networks List of American cable and satellite networks List of American over-the-air networks Local American TV stations (W) Local American TV stations (K) Spanish-language TV networks 1989 South Florida television affiliation switch 1994–1996 U.S. TV realignment 2006 U.S. TV realignment List of Canadian television stations available in the United States

v t e Corus Entertainment Broadcast television Global (O&O) CFRE-DT CFSK-DT CHAN-DT CHBC-DT CHEX-DT CHEX-DT-2 CHNB-DT CICT-DT CIHF-DT CIII-DT CISA-DT CITV-DT CKMI-DT CKND-DT CKWS-DT Cable television/ specialty channels Children Boomerang Cartoon Network Disney Channel Treehouse YTV Entertainment Adult Swim CMT Crime & Investigation DejaView DTour MovieTime Showcase W Network Lifestyle Flavour Network Global News 24/7 Global News: BC 1 History History2 Home Network Lifetime National Geographic National Geographic Wild Slice Corus Média (French) Historia SériesPlus Télétoon (la nuit) Over-the-top streaming Teletoon+ StackTV Terrestrial radio (by call sign) AM CFIQ CFPL CHED CHQR CJOB CJOY CKNW FM CFGQ-FM CFHK-FM CFLG-FM CFMI-FM CFMK-FM CFNY-FM CFOX-FM CFPG-FM CFPL-FM CHAY-FM CILQ-FM CIMJ-FM CING-FM CIQB-FM CISN-FM CJDV-FM CJKR-FM CJOT-FM CJSS-FM CJXY-FM CKBT-FM CKCB-FM CKDK-FM CKNG-FM CKQB-FM CKRU-FM CKRY-FM CKWF-FM CKWS-FM Production assets Corus Studios Kids Can Press Nelvana Waterside Studios Former/defunct/ historical brands and predecessors ABC Spark Action Alliance Atlantis BBC Canada Canwest CHCA-TV CHML CHQT CJNT-TV Cooking Channel CoolTV Corus Quebec Cosmopolitan TV Country Canada Discovery Kids Disney Jr. Disney XD Dusk E! Edge TV Family Fine Living Food Network Fox Sports World Canada FYI Global Reality Channel HBO Canada (Western & North feed) HGTV IFC KidsCo Klutz Press Encore Avenue La Chaîne Disney Leonardo World Locomotion Magnolia Network Canwest MediaWorks New Zealand Moffat Communications Movie Central Max Trax Network Ten Nick+ Nickelodeon Oprah Winfrey Network Qubo Selkirk Communications Shaw Media Sundance Channel TLN Network Teletoon at Night Teletoon Retro Télétoon Rétro Toon Boom Video Italia Western International Communications X-Treme Sports Some of the assets listed above are majority-owned, wholly-owned, by Corus Entertainment, or are under license. Refer to full asset list for detailed information.

v t e Global Television Network Owned-and-operated stations CHAN-DT Vancouver CHBC-DT Kelowna CISA-DT Lethbridge CICT-DT Calgary CITV-DT Edmonton CFRE-DT Regina CFSK-DT Saskatoon CKND-DT Winnipeg CIII-DT Toronto CHEX-DT-2 Oshawa CHEX-DT Peterborough CKWS-DT Kingston CKMI-DT Montreal CHNB-DT Saint John CIHF-DT Halifax Affiliates CHFD-DT Thunder Bay CJON-DT St. John's Defunct CJBN-TV Kenora See also Corus Entertainment

v t e Sports television in Canada Broadcast networks Full sports divisions CBC Sports Radio-Canada Sports Occasional or U.S. simulcasts only Sports on Citytv CTV Sports Sports on Global Television Network Sports on Noovo Sports on CHCH Mainstream specialty English Sportsnet One East Ontario West Pacific 360 TSN 1 2 3 4 5 French Réseau des sports RDS2 TVA Sports 2 3 Sports news / information French RDS Info Niche specialty (English) Sport-specific ATN Cricket Plus ATN DD Sports beIN Sports EuroWorld Sport Fight Network HPItv REV TV Canada NBA TV Canada Sportsnet World Ten Cricket Lifestyle and recreation Sportsman Channel Water Television Network Wild TV Streaming services DAZN Hotstar GolfTV OneSoccer FloSports Fubo Occasional broadcasts Commonwealth Broadcasting Network EastLink TV Rogers TV Shaw Spotlight YourTV Defunct Breakaway PPV Canadian Football Network ESPN Classic Fox Sports World Canada GolTV NHL Network Leafs Nation Network Sens TV WTSN WWE Network X-Treme Sports Foreign Afro Sports (US) Big Ten Network (US) Fox Sports Racing (US) Golf Channel (US) KHL-TV (Russia) MLB Network (US) NFL Network (US) NHL Network (US) Sport Plus (Greece)

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