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  1. CIII-DT, virtual channel 41 (UHF digital channel 17), is the flagship station of the Global Television Network, licensed to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CIII-DT's studios are located at 81 Barber Greene Road (near Leslie Street) in the Don Mills district of Toronto, and its transmitter is located atop the CN Tower in downtown Toronto. The station serves much of the population of Ontario through a network of 13 transmitters across primarily the southern and central portions of the province.
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  3. On cable, CIII-DT is available on Rogers Cable channel 3 in the Greater Toronto Area. On satellite, the station is carried on Shaw Direct channel 131 and Bell Satellite TV channel 1052.
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  5. By way of its transmitter network, CIII-DT also serves as the de facto Global affiliate for Ottawa (through CIII-DT-6), Southwestern Ontario (through CIII-DT-4 in Owen Sound and CIII-DT-22 in Stevenson) and Northern Ontario (through CFGC-DT in Greater Sudbury and CFGC-DT-2 in North Bay).
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  7. The station first signed on the air on January 6, 1974 as CKGN-TV (before its use by the station, the CKGN callsign had previously been used by what is now CTV owned-and-operated station CKNY-TV in North Bay from 1955 to 1962). It branded itself as the "Global Television Network," a name which reflected its then-unprecedented coverage of most of Southern Ontario from six transmitters (a seventh that would have reached Montreal was turned down) fed from a centralized studio. From its launch in 1974 until 2009, the station's main transmitter was licensed to Paris, a small town near Brantford, but Toronto became the station's primary city of licence following an amendment to the channel 41 licence in 2009. Through its entire history, however, the station's main studio facility has been based in a converted factory (built 1954 for Barber Greene Canada Limited) in the Don Mills area of North York (since 1998, located in Toronto).
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  9. It had hoped to be distinct from CBC and CTV by airing a number of its own Canadian-made programs. Three months later, however, many of these programs had been canceled due to deep financial problems. It had made a serious blunder by signing on in the middle of the 1973–74 television season, and prospective advertisers did not have the money to spare for commercial spots. It barely registered as a blip in the ratings; in Toronto, for instance, it only drew a 2.5 share, just a fraction of those drawn by CBC and CTV. Its line of credit was yanked, and it was unable to meet daily expenses.
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  11. Amid losses of over a million dollars a month, the network was forced to scrap its ambitious business model just to survive. Instead, it began airing as much non-Canadian content as allowed (at the time, Canadian content regulations required stations to broadcast domestically produced programs for 60% of its overall schedule, and 50% during prime time), becoming essentially a clone of CTV. The station's financial difficulties continued until it was bailed out by two conglomerates in 1977 – a Toronto-based group headed by Paul Morton and a Winnipeg-based group headed by Izzy Asper. The Asper group bought controlling interest in 1985. In 1989, the two groups tried to buy out each other's shares, and the CRTC ended the contest by allowing Asper and his company, Canwest, to take full ownership.
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  13. The station's callsign was changed to CIII-TV in January 1984, in accordance with its 10th anniversary of broadcasting. The Windsor/Cottam transmitter would be an exception to the rebroadcasters that were also assigned the CIII calls that month for a few years as it continued to be identified in CRTC documents as CKGN-TV-1, perhaps because of licensing issues with nearby broadcasters in the Detroit market (the CKGN calls are now used by an FM radio station in Kapuskasing, Ontario).
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  15. CIII has evolved into a much more Toronto-centric station in recent years. Previously, it employed a number of freelance journalists from across the province who filed reports for Global News. This, along with extensive provincewide weather coverage, gave the station a distinctive Ontario feel for many years. By the late 1990s, however, its focus had shifted almost exclusively toward Toronto.
  16.  
  17. Asper's stations (including CKVU-TV in Vancouver, Saskatchewan stations CFRE-TV at Regina and CFSK-TV at Saskatoon, CKND-TV in Winnipeg and CIHF-TV in Halifax/Saint John) formed a mini-network across portions of Canada outside of Ontario that by 1990 was known as the Canwest Global System. In August 1997, Canwest bought CKMI-TV in Quebec City and set up rebroadcasters in Montreal and Sherbrooke. It then scrubbed all local branding from its stations and rebranded them as the "Global Television Network," Canada's third national television network. Around this time, CIII became known internally as "Global Ontario", but generally avoided using the name on-air, even after most other Global stations began using regional branding in 2006. The Ontario station began to identify as "Global Toronto" in 2009 following the aforementioned licence amendment, but continues to use only the main Global logo in its bug outside of news programming, unlike other Global stations.
  18.  
  19. CIII-DT presently broadcasts 34 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station also airs the public affairs program Focus Ontario. In addition to its main news department in Toronto, the station also operates news bureaus in Sault Ste. Marie, Mississauga, Niagara Falls and at the National Press Centre in Ottawa. CIII does not employ its own entertainment reporters. Entertainment news coverage is provided by Entertainment Tonight Canada.
  20.  
  21. Current local news programs
  22. Weekdays:
  23. Global News Morning (6:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.)
  24. Global News at Noon (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
  25. Global News at 5:30 (5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)
  26. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  27. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.)
  28.  
  29. Weekends:
  30. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  31. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
  32.  
  33. ===
  34. CKND-DT, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 40), is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CKND-DT's studios are located on the 30th floor of 201 Portage in downtown Winnipeg, with transmitter atop the building. On cable, the station is available on Shaw Cable and MTS TV channel 12. On Shaw Direct, it is carried on channels 335 (Classic) and 34 (Advanced). There is a high definition feed offered on Shaw Cable digital channel 211, MTS TV channel 1012, and Shaw Direct channels 27 (Classic) and 527 (Advanced).
  35.  
  36. CKND's predecessor, KCND-TV, began broadcasting from Pembina, North Dakota, in November 1960. Although a U.S. station, it depended almost entirely on advertising from the media market of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In February 1973, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced that it had received two applications for new television stations in Winnipeg. One had been submitted by Western Manitoba Broadcasters Ltd., the parent company of CKX-TV in Brandon, Manitoba. The other application had been received from Continental Communications Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia, represented by Ray Peters, the president of Vancouver CTV affiliate CHAN-TV.
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  38. The CRTC solicited competing applications for the new Winnipeg television licence, and Peter Liba, who was then the executive assistant to Manitoba Liberal Party leader Izzy Asper, suggested that they make a bid. Wanting to save money on buying the needed equipment, Asper negotiated with Gordon McLendon to acquire the assets of KCND, convincing him that a new Winnipeg station would cut into KCND's revenues and that Winnipeg advertisers would likely lose tax deductions for American advertising costs.
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  40. McLendon sold the station's facilities and equipment to Canwest Broadcasting, established by Asper and partners Paul Morton and Seymour Epstein, for $780,000, contingent on Canwest securing a broadcasting licence. At the CRTC's public hearings in Winnipeg in May 1974, Canwest noted that the acquisition of KCND would give their new Winnipeg station a $2 million advertising base and would save $1.5 million in capital and start-up costs compared to the alternative of launching a completely new station.
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  42. At the same hearing, competing applications were presented by Western Manitoba Broadcasters Ltd. and by Communications Winnipeg Co-Op, which proposed a member-supported non-commercial station. (Continental Communications had withdrawn its application prior to the hearings.) John Boler, the owner of Valley City–Fargo, North Dakota CBS affiliate KXJB-TV and future owner of KVRR/KNRR, also used the occasion to announce his intention to launch a new Pembina-based station on channel 12.
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  44. In September 1974, the CRTC awarded the Winnipeg channel 9 licence to Canwest, which formally took possession and assumed day-to-day management of KCND-TV on March 31, 1975 (due to foreign ownership restrictions, the McLendon Corporation remained the official licensee of KCND until it surrendered the station's broadcasting licence to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission [FCC] later that year). The same month, Canwest confirmed that the new station would operate from a former supermarket at 603 St. Mary's Road in Winnipeg and use an antenna mounted on the CBWT tower in Starbuck, Manitoba, to avoid having to dismantle KCND's tower during the transition. KCND-TV general manager G. O. Johnson was appointed executive vice-president and general manager of CanWest Broadcasting. In May 1975, Canwest announced that KCND's 17 Winnipeg-based employees had all accepted offers of employment at the new station, but that there was little interest among the station's 22 Pembina-based employees.
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  46. During Labour Day weekend, on August 31, 1975, CKND signed on channel 9 (broadcast) and channel 12 (cable), both shown prominently in the station's logo. Both CKND and KCND simulcast the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon until 5:30 p.m. on September 1, 1975, after which KCND permanently left the air.
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  48. The former KCND tower was later moved to Asper's birthplace of Minnedosa, Manitoba, a small town 46 kilometres (29 mi) north of Brandon, to serve western Manitoba. Together, the two transmitters reach 91% of Manitoba's population. Its first regularly scheduled program following the MDA telethon was The Hollywood Squares.
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  50. In 1981, KCND became the call letters for KCND-FM, the first Prairie Public Radio (now North Dakota Public Radio) station in Bismarck, North Dakota. The same year, the U.S. FCC issued a construction permit for a new station to serve Pembina, North Dakota on channel 12. The station's launch, however, would remain delayed until 1986.
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  52. During a June 1981 hearing to extend CKND-TV's signal into the Westman area and to hear the application by Western Manitoba Broadcasters Ltd. (Craig) for a new television station at Portage la Prairie, Canwest said that the Westman transmitter on a VHF channel would reach up to 175,000 more viewers than with the CKND-TV Winnipeg signal. The signal would stretch from the US border to Dauphin, and from Central Manitoba to Saskatchewan.
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  54. At an April 1982 CRTC hearing regarding licensing a new television station for southern Manitoba, Canwest stated that while they were given VHF channel 2 to operate the CKND-TV2 rebroadcaster, they could have used VHF channel 13 instead. Canwest also stated that it would require a population of over 100,000 to serve the Interlake area with two or three UHF transmitters, rather than the 30,000 that existed at the time.
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  56. On-air signal testing on channel 2 with colour bars, test slides and test programming began in early August. CKND-TV-2 began broadcasting at 6 p.m. on September 1, 1982. Cable TV viewers in Dauphin were unable to watch the launch of CKND-TV-2 channel 2 because the cable company, Westman Media Co-op, did not have an antenna ready to receive the new signal.
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  58. On January 1, 1986, channel 12 returned in Pembina, North Dakota, as KNRR, a satellite of independent station KVRR (channel 15) in Fargo. Canadian cable providers were prohibited from distributing the signal, however, by an October 1986 CRTC decision in response to broadcaster concerns about the "potentially damaging effect of this station by providing Canadian advertisers with access to large amounts of commercial airtime at rates substantially lower than those they would be obliged to pay Canadian television licensees in order to reach the same potential audience." As the satellite station was never profitable due to its location, as well as its difficulties in being able to reach the Winnipeg audience, KNRR went off the air from June to October 2009 as the station did not upgrade to a digital signal.
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  60. Along with the other Canwest-owned stations, CKND was rebranded as Global in the fall of 1997. CKND's studios also produced Fox Soccer Report, which aired throughout the world on Fox Sports World Canada, Fox Soccer Channel, and Fox Sports Middle East. On September 1, 2008, CKND moved its operations downtown to Canwest Place (now called 201 Portage).
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  62. On April 1, 2016, Shaw Media (which was rebranded from Canwest in 2010) was sold to Corus Entertainment. The deal provided CKND three radio stations (CJOB, CFPG-FM and CJKR-FM) as sister properties.
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  64. CKND-DT presently broadcasts ​24 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week (​4 and a half hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). Starting April 11, 2016, Global Winnipeg, along with all Global owned-and-operated stations, rebranded its news programs. All of their news programs received new names.
  65.  
  66. Current local news programs
  67. Weekdays:
  68. Global News Morning (6:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.)
  69. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  70. Global News at 10 (10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.)
  71.  
  72. Weekends:
  73. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  74. Global News at 10 (10:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.)
  75.  
  76. ===
  77. CFRE-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 11, is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CFRE-DT's studios are located on Hoffer Drive and McDonald Street on the northeast side of Regina, and its transmitter is located near Louis Riel Trail/Highway 11, northwest of Regina.
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  79. On cable, CFRE-DT is available in high definition on Access Communications channel 508, and Sasktel Max channel 305 in the Regina area. On satellite, it is carried on Shaw Direct channel 171, and Bell Satellite TV channel 594.
  80.  
  81. The Communications Tower (associated with the local early broadcasts in 1987) is the tallest structure in Saskatchewan at over 300 metres (984 ft) with lights and top antenna. The Tower was constructed by Towerectors, a company that specialized in constructing Communications Towers. Towerectors was owned and operated by Gerhard F. Hein and George Anderson.
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  83. The station first signed on the air on September 6, 1987, under the ownership of Canwest. CFRE and its sister station in Saskatoon, CFSK, were branded as "STV", and became part of the CanWest Global System in 1990 until the Global Television Network brand was expanded to all of Canwest's stations in 1997.
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  85. CFRE-DT presently broadcasts 27 hours of local newscasts each week (with five hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station also airs the public affairs program Focus Saskatchewan.
  86.  
  87. Current local news programs
  88. Weekdays:
  89. Global News Morning (6:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.)
  90. Global News at 5 (5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
  91. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  92. Global News at 10 (10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.)
  93.  
  94. Weekends:
  95. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  96. Global News at 10 (10:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.)
  97.  
  98. ===
  99. CFSK-DT, virtual channel 4.1 (UHF digital channel 42), is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CFSK-DT's studios are located on Robin Crescent on the northwest side of Saskatoon (near the Saskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport), and its transmitter is located on Agra and Settlers Ridge Roads (near Highway 41), northeast of Saskatoon.
  100.  
  101. On cable, the station is available on Shaw Cable channel 3 and Sasktel Max channel 5. There is a high definition feed offered on Shaw Cable digital channel 211, Sasktel Max channel 305, and Bell Satellite TV channel 236.
  102.  
  103. The station first signed on the air on September 6, 1987, under the ownership of Canwest. CFSK and its sister station in Regina, CFRE-TV, were initially branded as "STV" (short for "Saskatchewan Television"). It joined the Canwest Global System in 1990. At the time that STV went on the air, it was Saskatoon's third locally based over-the-air television station, joining a market that included CTV's CFQC and the then-operational CBC affiliate, CBKST. However, technically it was Saskatoon's second fully licensed station; CBKST was licensed as a rebroadcaster of Regina's CBKT.
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  105. Canwest discontinued the STV branding, along with all other individual local station brandings in 1997, when the Global Television Network brand was expanded to all of Canwest's stations. One of STV's major broadcasts in its early years was the children's program Size Small Island (that show was originally broadcast on sister station CKND-TV in Winnipeg), which was syndicated around the world (the show's host, Helen Lumby, officially launched the mini-network's first broadcast in Saskatoon in 1987). Since the closure of CBKST in 2012, CFSK is one of only two over-the-air broadcast stations originating from Saskatoon.
  106.  
  107. CFSK-DT presently broadcasts 27 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays); it is among the few Global stations (and one of the few television stations in Canada) to carry a prime time newscast during the 10 p.m. hour.
  108.  
  109. Current local news programs
  110. Weekdays:
  111. Global News Morning (6:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.)
  112. Global News at 5 (5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
  113. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  114. Global News at 10 (10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.)
  115.  
  116. Weekends:
  117. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  118. Global News at 10 (10:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.)
  119.  
  120. ===
  121. CIHF-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 8, is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Owned by Corus Entertainment, it is a sister station to CHNB-DT in Saint John, New Brunswick. The two stations share a studio on Gottingen Street in Downtown Halifax; CIHF-DT's transmitter is located on Washmill Lake Drive on the city's west side.
  122.  
  123. On cable and satellite, the station is available on EastLink TV channel 6, Bell Aliant TV channel 4, Bell Satellite TV channel 204, and Shaw Direct channels 329 (Classic) and 60 (Advanced). There is a high-definition feed offered on Eastlink TV digital channel 602, Bell Aliant TV channel 402, and Shaw Direct channels 50 (Classic) and 550 (Advanced).
  124.  
  125. Global Halifax is also one of five Global TV stations available for viewing live on the Global TV app and website (cable/satellite subscription required) and on StackTV on Amazon Prime Video (Amazon Prime subscription required).
  126.  
  127. CIHF-TV was launched on September 5, 1988, and was initially owned by the Irving family of Saint John, New Brunswick and their New Brunswick Broadcasting Company. It was co-owned with Saint John-based CHSJ-TV, the CBC Television affiliate for all of New Brunswick. The station initially had only one transmitter, in Halifax; it served the rest of Nova Scotia via cable. When MITV launched, it took all prime time American shows from CBC station CBHT—reportedly a prelude to the CBC dropping all prime time American programming nationwide.
  128.  
  129. It was a sister station to CIHF-TV-2 in Saint John. Both stations were branded as MITV (Maritimes Independent Television), and their schedules were almost identical. However, the stations offered separate newscasts to their respective provinces and opportunities for advertisers to buy ad space on one or both stations. Furthermore, although the Saint John station's callsign made it appear that it was a rebroadcaster of the Halifax station, both stations were separately licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). At the time, MITV was the only over-the-air independent television station in the area, with studios and main operation centre in Halifax, and all other functions in Saint John. As MITV shared owners with CHSJ-TV, a popular joke in the Maritimes was that MITV stood for "More Irving Television".
  130.  
  131. In 1989, retransmitters were added in Bridgewater, Truro, and Wolfville. The transmitter network was expanded further in 1993 to include service to Shelburne, Sydney, New Glasgow, and Yarmouth.
  132.  
  133. After losing $5 million each year since sign-on, MITV was sold to Canwest on August 29, 1994. This was part of a three-way deal, which saw the CBC taking control of CHSJ-TV, moving it to Fredericton, and renaming it CBAT, making it a full CBC O&O. Later in the year, MITV moved its operational and business headquarters to Halifax.
  134.  
  135. In 1995, MITV's Saint John offices were moved out of the old CHSJ building and into a new facility in Brunswick Square. Within a year of new ownership and its resulting reorganization and marketing focus, the station became profitable for the first time in its short history. In 1997, when Canwest rebranded its stations as the Global Television Network, MITV became Global Maritimes.
  136.  
  137. Additional retransmitters signed on in 1998, in Mulgrave and Antigonish.
  138.  
  139. On December 17, 2012, Global Maritimes officially began operations at its new home on Gottingen Street in Downtown Halifax. Previously, its operations were located on Akerley Blvd. in an industrial park in the Halifax suburb of Dartmouth.
  140.  
  141. In April 2013, CIHF was rebranded as Global Halifax, while sister station CIHF-2 in Saint John was rebranded as Global New Brunswick, marking the first time the stations have not used the same brand. The stations began producing separate nightly newscasts in addition to their already existing separate evening newscasts, and a new senior correspondent was hired for Global New Brunswick. The stations will continue to share news-gathering resources and anchors. Despite the separate branding, the two stations' non-news schedules remain virtually identical, except for separate idents and commercials.
  142.  
  143. CIHF-DT presently broadcasts 34 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6 and a half hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). On Saturdays and Sundays, Global Halifax and Global New Brunswick share a combined Global News at 6 and Global News at 11 under the Global Maritimes brand.
  144.  
  145. Current local news programs
  146. Weekdays:
  147. Global News Morning (6:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.)
  148. Global News at 5 (5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)
  149. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  150. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.)
  151.  
  152. Weekends:
  153. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  154. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
  155.  
  156. ===
  157. CHNB-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 12, is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, serving as the network's outlet for both New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island (by way of a repeater in Lot 22 serving Charlottetown). Owned by Corus Entertainment, it is a sister station to CIHF-DT in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The two stations share studios on Gottingen Street in Downtown Halifax; CHNB-DT's transmitter is located on Mount Champlain. Aside from the transmitter, CHNB-DT does not maintain any physical presence locally in New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island. On cable, the station is available on Rogers Cable and Eastlink channel 6. On satellite, it is carried on Bell Satellite TV channel 198.
  158.  
  159. The station was launched on September 5, 1988 as CIHF-TV-2, owned by the Irving family's New Brunswick Broadcasting Company, which also owned CHSJ-TV, the CBC affiliate for all of New Brunswick. The station launched with three transmitters, namely those in Saint John, Fredericton, and Moncton. When MITV launched, the station took all prime time American shows from CHSJ—reportedly a prelude to the CBC dropping all prime time American programming nationwide.
  160.  
  161. It was closely tied with sister station CIHF-TV in Halifax. Both shared the same branding, MITV (Maritimes Independent Television), and their schedules were almost identical. However, the stations offered separate newscasts to their respective provinces and opportunities for advertisers to buy ad space on one or both stations. Furthermore, despite the New Brunswick station's rebroadcaster-like callsign, the stations were separately licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). At the time, MITV was the only over-the-air independent television station in the area, with studios and main operation centre in Halifax, and all other functions in Saint John. As MITV shared owners with CHSJ-TV, a popular joke in the Maritimes was that MITV stood for "More Irving Television".
  162.  
  163. After losing $5 million each year since sign-on, MITV was sold to Canwest on August 29, 1994. This was part of a three-way deal, which saw the CBC taking control of CHSJ-TV, moving it to Fredericton, and renaming it CBAT, making it a full CBC O&O. Later in the year, MITV moved its operational and business headquarters to Dartmouth.
  164.  
  165. In 1995, MITV's Saint John offices were moved out of the old CHSJ building and into a new facility in Brunswick Square. Within a year of new ownership and its resulting reorganization and marketing focus, the station became profitable for the first time in its short history. In 1997, as a part of Canwest's rebranding programme, MITV became "Global Maritimes".
  166.  
  167. Additional retransmitters signed on in 1998, in Charlottetown, Woodstock, Miramichi, and St. Stephen.
  168.  
  169. On December 17, 2012, Global Maritimes officially began operations at its new home on Gottingen Street in Downtown Halifax. Previously, its operations were located on Akerley Blvd. in an industrial park in the Halifax suburb of Dartmouth.
  170.  
  171. In April 2013, CIHF-2 was rebranded Global New Brunswick, while sister station CIHF was rebranded Global Halifax, marking the first time the stations have not used the same brand. The stations began producing separate nightly newscasts in addition to their already existing separate evening newscasts, and a new senior correspondent was hired for Global New Brunswick. The stations will continue to share newsgathering resources and anchors. Despite the separate branding, the two stations' non-news schedules are almost identical with the exception of idents and commercials.
  172.  
  173. Although the station has always been separately licensed, it was not until June 18, 2013 that its callsign changed from CIHF-DT-2 to CHNB-DT.
  174.  
  175. The Maritimes are located in the Atlantic Time Zone, which is one hour ahead of the Eastern Time Zone, where Global's CIII Toronto is located. In order to accommodate such a time zone difference and maximize simultaneous substitution opportunities with the American stations carried on cable, CHNB's prime time schedule deviates from that of most other Global O&Os, with some shows airing earlier in the evening, and occasionally on different nights, compared to other Global stations. (Global's stations in Alberta, which operate on Mountain Time but are in markets where the American network affiliates available on cable are on Pacific Time, usually have a very similar prime time schedule.)
  176.  
  177. Global New Brunswick airs two local newscasts a day: Global News at 6 and Global News at 11. Global News at 6 is followed by Global National at 6:30 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays, Global Halifax and Global New Brunswick share a combined Global News at 6 and Global News at 11 under the Global Maritimes brand. In addition, Global New Brunswick simulcasts Global News Morning (weekday mornings from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.) as well as Global News at 5 from Global Halifax (weekdays from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.). All of these news programs are broadcast from the Halifax studios. The station also operates a news bureau in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
  178.  
  179. Current local news programs
  180. Weekdays:
  181. Global News Morning (6:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.)
  182. Global News at 5 (5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)
  183. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  184. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.)
  185.  
  186. Weekends:
  187. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  188. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
  189.  
  190. ===
  191. CKMI-DT, virtual and UHF digital channel 46, is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CKMI's studios are located inside the Dominion Square Building in Downtown Montreal, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Royal. On cable, the station is available on Vidéotron Illico digital cable channel 8 in standard definition and channel 608 in high definition in the Montreal area, and on Bell Satellite TV channel 234. On Shaw Direct, it is carried on channels 330 (Classic) and 59 (Advanced), and in high definition on channels 43 (Classic) and 530 (Advanced).
  192.  
  193. The station launched on March 17, 1957, and was the second privately owned station in Quebec. It was licensed to Quebec City, and aired an analogue signal on VHF channel 5. CKMI was originally owned by Télévision de Québec, along with the province's first private station, CFCM-TV. The station's studios were located alongside CFCM's facilities in Sainte-Foy, then a suburb of Quebec City. Télévision de Québec was a consortium of cinema chain Famous Players and Quebec City's three privately owned radio stations, CHRC, CKCV and CJQC. It immediately became Quebec City's CBC Television affiliate, taking all English-language programming from CFCM. In 1964, following the opening of CBVT, CFCM disaffiliated from Radio-Canada (the French-language arm of the CBC) and joined the loose association of independent stations that evolved into TVA, while CKMI remained with CBC.
  194.  
  195. Télévision de Québec was nearly forced to sell its stations in 1969 due to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) new rules requiring radio and television stations to be 80% Canadian-owned. The largest shareholder, Famous Players, was a subsidiary of American film studio Paramount Pictures. Eventually, Famous Players reduced its shares to 20% by 1971, allowing Télévision de Québec to keep CKMI and CFCM. The company renamed itself Télé-Capitale in 1974. CKMI and CFCM were bought by Pathonic in 1979, and then by Télé-Metropole (which changed its name to TVA) in 1989. For many years, CKMI was known on-air as "MI-5".
  196.  
  197. CKMI faced severe financial problems for much of its history as a CBC affiliate, in large part because the area's anglophone population was just barely large enough for the station to be viable as a privately owned CBC affiliate (Quebec City, unlike Montreal, is a virtually monolingual francophone city). For most of its first 40 years on the air, it stayed afloat only because of the revenues from CFCM, long the dominant station in Quebec City. Much of its viewership came from anglophone members of the National Assembly and anglophone provincial government employees. For many years, its only newscast was a five-minute update, as its viewership was deemed too small to justify a full-fledged news department.
  198.  
  199. It began airing Global shows in the 1980s, and was picked up by most cable providers in Montreal as a result. By 1992, however, growing financial trouble forced CKMI to drop all non-CBC programming and become a de facto repeater of Montreal's CBC O&O, CBMT. It also carried CBMT's newscasts, though CKMI aired its own five-minute newscast, Inside Quebec, before CBMT's Newswatch on weeknights.
  200.  
  201. Relief did not come until 1997, when TVA sold a 51% controlling interest in the station to Izzy Asper's Canwest Global Communications, while retaining 49% interest. TVA and Canwest formed a joint venture that assumed ownership of CKMI. CKMI then added semi-satellites in Montreal and Sherbrooke, reappearing on Montreal cable systems as a result. The purchase closed on August 18, 1997. With the addition of CKMI, Canwest's stations had enough coverage of Canada that on August 18, 1997–the day Canwest closed on its purchase of controlling interest in the station–Canwest rebranded its station group as the Global Television Network. On that date, CKMI disaffiliated from CBC and became the exclusive Global outlet for Quebec.
  202.  
  203. As part of the deal, CKMI moved from VHF channel 5 to UHF channel 20 using a transmitter at the Quebec City tower farm atop Mount Bélair. The CBC took over CKMI's old transmitter site in Sainte-Foy and used it to set up CBVE-TV, a full-time repeater of CBMT. Following the digital transition in 2011, the station relocated to channel 11, using CBVT's old analogue frequency and transmitter atop Mount Bélair; CBVE-TV would close on July 31, 2012, due to the CBC's budget cuts.
  204.  
  205. Global had spent almost a quarter-century trying to get a transmitter in Montreal. When the network originally launched in 1974 as an Ontario-based network, original plans called for a transmitter in Maxville, near Cornwall. While it would have primarily served Hawkesbury, it would have provided a strong grade B signal to Montreal. However, the CRTC vetoed it, since it was believed Montreal's anglophone population wasn't large enough for what would have essentially been three privately owned English-language stations. In 2002, Global bought out TVA's remaining interest in CKMI.
  206.  
  207. The station shifted most of its operations, as well as the focus of its news coverage, to Montreal soon after the launch of the Montreal transmitter. This made sense, since Montreal is home to almost three-fourths of Quebec's anglophones. It also began sending its signal to the Montreal transmitter first. However, it remained licensed to Quebec City, and its "official" main studio remained in Sainte-Foy. This changed in 2009, when the CRTC allowed that station to move its license to Montreal as well. However, as mentioned above, for all intents and purposes it has been a Montreal station since joining Global.
  208.  
  209. From 1997 to 2009, CKMI was officially classed as a "regional" station, and as such was not allowed to sell local advertising in Montreal. However, when the station moved its license to Montreal in 2009 (effectively making the Montreal rebroadcaster the station's primary transmitter), it gained local advertising rights in Montreal for the first time. As it was now officially a Montreal station, it rebranded from "Global Quebec" to "Global Montreal". Despite this, CKMI remains the only English-language Montreal station that is unavailable to American cable viewers in northeast New York and northern New England. This is likely to protect the rights of stations in the Burlington, Vermont–Plattsburgh, New York market, as Global has long relied on American-produced programming.
  210.  
  211. In 2009, CKMI's main production facilities and news operations relocated from a building shared with TVA on De Maisonneuve Boulevard East in Montreal to the Dominion Square Building, home of The Gazette, in Downtown Montreal.
  212.  
  213. CKMI-DT presently broadcasts 29 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 and a half hours each weekday, and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output out of any English-language television station in the Montreal market. The station also airs a half-hour program called Focus Montreal, looking at the events in Montreal during the past week. In addition to its main news department in Montreal, the station also operates news bureaus in Quebec City and Sherbrooke.
  214.  
  215. Current local news programs
  216. Weekdays:
  217. Global News Morning (6:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.)
  218. Global News at Noon (12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
  219. Global News at 5:30 (5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)
  220. Global News at 6:30 (6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
  221. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.)
  222.  
  223. Weekends:
  224. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  225. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
  226.  
  227. ===
  228. CICT-DT, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 25), is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CICT-DT's studios are located on 23 Street Northeast and Barlow Trail in Calgary, near the Mayland Heights neighbourhood, and its transmitter is located near Old Banff Coach Road/Highway 563 and Artists View Drive, near the Calgary city limits. It serves as the master control hub for all 15 Global owned-and-operated stations across Canada.
  229.  
  230. On cable, CICT-DT is available on Shaw Cable channel 7, Bell Satellite TV channel 244, and Shaw Direct channels 338 (Classic) and 17 (Advanced). A high definition feed is offered on Shaw Cable digital channel 211, Rogers Cable channel 118, and Shaw Direct channels 15 (Classic) and 515 (Advanced).
  231.  
  232. CICT-TV first signed on the air on October 8, 1954 as CHCT-TV, and was the first television station in the province of Alberta (as a result, it is also the oldest television station in the country that is part of the Global Television Network). The station was originally an affiliate of CBC Television. Its studios, offices and transmitter facility were located on a hill seven miles (11 km) west of the city. The station was owned by Calgary Television Ltd., a consortium of Calgary radio stations CFCN, CFAC and CKXL. The "CT" in CHCT stood for "Calgary Television".
  233.  
  234. During the construction of the transmitter, the 70-foot (21 m), 5-ton antenna was being hoisted on the top of the 600-foot (180 m) tower when the cable snapped and the antenna fell all the way down the tower to imbed itself 15 feet (4.6 m) in the ground. No one was injured in the accident, and the antenna was able to be repaired, but the station's launch was delayed by 10 days. A year later, CHCT moved its studios and offices from the transmitter site on Old Banff Coach Road, to a renovated badminton club/sea cadet drill hall on 955 Rideau Road S.W. in Calgary.
  235.  
  236. Notable programs that were produced at the original studio include Klara's Korner, a cooking show that was in national syndication for many years; Yan Can Cook, a cooking show hosted by Martin Yan which later aired for many years on PBS in the United States; Stampede Wrestling, which was produced for over 20 years, finding loyal audiences worldwide; and It Figures, which originated at the station and was produced for nearly 20 years.
  237.  
  238. In 1957, CKXL Ltd. sold its share in Calgary Television Ltd. to Fredrick Shaw, who had recently sold his share in CKXL-AM to Tel-Ray Ltd. CFCN sold off its share in 1961 when it opened its own station, CFCN-TV. In 1968, Tel-Ray sold its stake to Selkirk Communications, who changed the callsign to CFAC-TV to match CFAC radio, of which Selkirk was part-owner (and full owner from 1971). On September 1, 1975, after the CBC launched its own station in Calgary, CBRT (channel 9; prior to its sign-on, Calgary was the largest TV market in Canada without a CBC owned-and-operated station of its own), CFAC-TV disaffiliated from CBC and became an independent station. In 1979, the station branded itself as "2&7", the latter channel number referring to both its cable location and to sister station CFAC-TV7 in Lethbridge (now CISA). For a number of years afterwards, it continued to use the old CFAC "star" logo alongside the 2&7 logo.
  239.  
  240. In 1981, the station moved to its new home, the Calgary Television Centre, a move reflecting its growth since its disaffiliation from the CBC. After obtaining the television rights to the (then-newly relocated) Calgary Flames NHL franchise the year before, the station purchased a seven-camera mobile unit soon after. The station has been the Flames' television partner since 1980. In the fall of 1982, the station became the first station in Calgary to begin broadcasting a 24-hour schedule. Programs seen during the overnight hours consisted of movies and reruns of The Jackie Gleason Show, among other shows.
  241.  
  242. Although it continued to nominally be an independent station, in 1988, CFAC-TV began airing some programs from the Global Television Network. In 1989, Maclean-Hunter purchased Selkirk Communications, but due to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ownership regulations at the time (Maclean-Hunter already owned CFCN-TV), CFAC-TV was sold to Western International Communications (WIC). A year after WIC bought channel 2, it changed the call letters to CKKX-TV. In 1992, CKKX's news operations were expanded with the acquisitions of a satellite uplink truck and a fleet of electronic news gathering microwave trucks.
  243.  
  244. On September 7, 1993, CKKX changed its callsign to CICT-TV, and also took on the brand of "Calgary 7", referring to the station's cable channel. WIC's properties were split between Shaw Communications and Canwest in 1998. This move required CRTC approval, the plans for which were filed in 1999 and approved in 2000. Canwest acquired WIC's television assets, including CICT; incidentally, Shaw later bought Canwest's assets amidst the latter company seeking creditor protection in 2009, with the properties becoming the present-day Shaw Media (which is based in the same city).
  245.  
  246. On September 4, 2000, CICT joined the Global Television Network full-time as an owned-and-operated station, along with fellow Alberta stations CITV-TV in Edmonton and CISA in Lethbridge. By 2001, CICT-TV began relays in Drumheller (CICT-TV-1) and Banff (CICT-TV-2).
  247.  
  248. CICT airs the entire Global programming lineup, operating on the same schedule as its Edmonton sister station CITV-DT. All non-news programming and some Calgary-based newscasts are also aired on fellow sister station CISA-DT in Lethbridge.
  249.  
  250. CICT presently broadcasts 46 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7 and a half hours each weekday and 4 and a half hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output out of any English-language television station in the Calgary market.
  251.  
  252. Current local news programs
  253. Weekdays:
  254. Global News Morning (5:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.)
  255. Global News at Noon (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
  256. Global News at 5 (5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
  257. Global News Hour at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
  258. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.)
  259.  
  260. Weekends:
  261. Global News Morning (7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.)
  262. Global News Hour at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
  263. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
  264.  
  265. ===
  266. CITV-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 13, is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CITV-DT's studios are located on Allard Way Northwest in the Pleasantview neighbourhood of Edmonton, and its transmitter is located just off of Highway 21, southeast of the city. The station carries the full Global network schedule, and its programming is similar to sister station CICT-DT in Calgary. CITV's master control is also based out of CICT, along with the remainder of Global's owned-and-operated stations.
  267.  
  268. On cable, CITV-DT is available on Shaw Cable channel 8, Bell Satellite TV channel 240, Telus TV channel 9104, and Shaw Direct channels 339 (Classic) and 21 (Advanced). A high definition feed is offered on Shaw Cable digital channel 211, Telus TV channel 104, and Shaw Direct channels 11 (Classic) and 511 (Advanced).
  269.  
  270. The station first signed on the air on September 1, 1974. CITV was originally owned by Allarcom, owned by Dr. Charles Allard, and launched under the brand "Independent Television" (ITV), a brand that the station used until 2000, when it became part of the Global Television Network. In 1991, Allarcom was purchased by Western International Communications' WIC Television division, which in turn was purchased by Canwest Global Communications in 1999. CITV joined the Global Television Network on September 4, 2000, along with fellow Alberta stations CICT in Calgary and CISA in Lethbridge, but CICT had been carrying Global's programming since 1988.
  271.  
  272. Beginning in 1981, CITV became a national superstation, being offered on most cable television systems across the country through the Cancom (now Shaw Broadcast Services) service for Canadian cable television providers too distant to receive most over-the-air television signals. It is still carried on satellite television nationwide through Bell Satellite TV and Shaw Direct, as well as on several cable systems across Canada outside Alberta, including in all of Newfoundland and Labrador and some areas of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and the Yukon.
  273.  
  274. From 1980 to 1982, the station's studios were used for taping episodes of the Canadian sketch comedy SCTV; since the station itself was the focus of the storylines, CITV's lobby and control room were often used for SCTV scenes. (The show had previously taped in Toronto at CIII, Global's flagship station, somewhat ironically.)
  275.  
  276. CITV presently broadcasts 46 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7 and a half hours each weekday and 4 and a half hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output out of any English-language television station in the Edmonton market. In addition to its main news department in Edmonton, the station also operates news bureaus in Fort McMurray and Red Deer.
  277.  
  278. Current local news programs
  279. Weekdays:
  280. Global News Morning (5:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.)
  281. Global News at Noon (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
  282. Global News at 5 (5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
  283. Global News Hour at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
  284. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.)
  285.  
  286. Weekends:
  287. Global News Morning (7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.)
  288. Global News Hour at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
  289. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
  290.  
  291. ===
  292. CISA-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CISA-DT's studios are located inside the Royal Bank building at the corner of 7 Street South and 4 Avenue South in Downtown Lethbridge, and its transmitter is located near Highway 25 and Range Road 221, just outside the city. On cable, the station is available on Shaw Cable channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 211.
  293.  
  294. The station carries the full Global network schedule, and its programming is similar to sister station CICT-DT in Calgary. CISA's master control is also based out of CICT, along with the remainder of Global's owned-and-operated stations. It is the smallest station in the Global network (formerly second to the defunct Shaw-owned affiliate CJBN-TV in Kenora, Ontario) and is the only standalone commercial station in Southern Alberta.
  295.  
  296. The station first signed on the air on November 20, 1955 as CJLH-TV, broadcasting on VHF channel 7 from a 167,000-watt transmitter atop a 638-foot tower located at what was the city limits of Lethbridge. The station was a joint venture between local radio station CJOC (the "CJ" in the call sign) and the Lethbridge Herald (the "LH"). It was managed by CJOC's owners, Taylor Pearson & Carson, and began life as an affiliate of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) television network. Network programs on kinescope arrived within a few days to a week after they went to air live in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, or the U.S. networks. Three months after CJLH went to air, measurement services showed that the station had a potential audience of 9,400 homes, but within a year, that grew to 19,200, and of those, 16,000 had bought television sets. At the time, CJLH was the only station in the Lethbridge area.
  297.  
  298. In 1958, the timeshifting problems the station had with network programming were eliminated when it was able to get a direct microwave link to the CBC network via its Calgary time-delay centre. The problem still existed for live sports events, such as NHL hockey and CFL football telecasts. In 1961, CJLH expanded into the Crowsnest Pass area, by opening a repeater station at Burmis on channel 3. An application from CFCN-TV in Calgary to open a repeater station in Lethbridge was unsuccessful in getting CRTC approval that year.
  299.  
  300. However, a year later in 1968, an agreement was reached between CFCN and CJLH to share space on the CJLH tower and building for technical equipment. On September 3, CFCN went on the air with a repeater station on channel 13. That same year, the station's first 2-inch black and white videotape recorder was installed, and a repeater in Brooks began operations, transmitting at low power on VHF channel 3.
  301.  
  302. In 1970, program production was increased significantly when CJLH became a two-camera operation. Two years later, the Herald sold its stake in the station to Selkirk Communications (as Taylor Pearson & Carson had been renamed in 1959), who changed its call sign to CJOC-TV to match the radio station. It became a semi-satellite of co-owned CFAC-TV in Calgary (now CICT-DT), and continued local production with shows such as Time Out, Ski Reports, Our Town, Sunday Hour, Thought for the Day, Focus on University, College Campus and numerous specials. In 1974, CJOC went full colour with two colour cameras and three colour 1" VTRs. CFCN moved out of the CJOC building and into its own during that same year.
  303.  
  304. On September 1, 1975, CFAC-TV disaffiliated from the CBC and became an independent station when CBC Television put its own station, CBRT (channel 9), on the air. On the same day, CJOC also disaffiliated from the CBC as CBRT had set up a rebroadcaster in Lethbridge. In 1976, it changed its callsign to CFAC-TV-7. Despite its rebroadcaster-like callsign, it was still licensed as a full-fledged station. The station took on the same branding as CFAC-TV in Calgary, adopting the moniker "2&7 Lethbridge Television". In 1979, the station increased its transmitter power to 167,000 watts. In 1988, it added a satellite dish to get video news feeds from Global Television, and also began carrying some of Global's entertainment programming along with its Calgary sister.
  305.  
  306. In 1989, Selkirk Communications merged with CFCN's then-owner, Maclean Hunter, who immediately sold most of Selkirk's television holdings, including CFAC-TV-7, to Western International Communications. One year later, WIC changed the station's calls to the current CISA-TV. Through the years, CISA's commitment to local programming has continued to reap both industry awards, making it one of the country's most awarded stations, and audience numbers in its local area.
  307.  
  308. In 1998, the Griffiths family sold WIC's assets to Shaw Communications and Canwest. In 1999, agreements were lodged with the CRTC to split WIC assets between Canwest, Corus Radio and Shaw. The CRTC approved the purchase in 2000: Western International Communications was sold to Canwest, and CISA-TV became a full-time Global Television Network station under the brand "Global Lethbridge" on September 4 that year. CISA was the last Global station to have its website integrated into the canada.com network.
  309.  
  310. Since 1970, CISA's non-news schedule has been identical to that of CICT. Both stations air Global programming on the same schedule as CITV in Edmonton.
  311.  
  312. CISA-DT presently broadcasts 13 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with two hours on weekdays, and 1 and a half hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the lowest local newscast output out of Global's news-producing owned-and-operated stations.
  313.  
  314. Current local news programs
  315. Weekdays:
  316. Global News Morning (5:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.; CICT simulcast)
  317. Global News at Noon (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.; CICT simulcast)
  318. Global News at 5 (5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.; CICT simulcast)
  319. Global News Hour at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
  320. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.)
  321.  
  322. Weekends:
  323. Global News Morning (7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.; CICT simulcast)
  324. Global News Hour at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
  325. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
  326.  
  327. ===
  328. CHBC-DT, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 27), is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CHBC-DT's studios are located on Leon Avenue (near Water Street) in Downtown Kelowna, and its main transmitter is located near Lambly Creek Road in Central Okanagan; CHBC also operates 18 rebroadcast transmitters across the southeastern part of the province.
  329.  
  330. Since the dismantling of the former E! television system and its switch to Global, CHBC has largely acted as a de facto semi-satellite of sister station CHAN-DT in Vancouver, airing the majority of its programming in pattern, but with evening newscasts covering the Okanagan region.
  331.  
  332. On cable, CHBC-DT is available on Shaw Cable channel 4 and Telus Optik TV channel 116. There is a high definition feed offered on Shaw Cable digital channel 211.
  333.  
  334. The station first signed on the air on September 21, 1957, originally operating as a CBC affiliate. Its signal covered the central Okanagan, broadcasting at 3,700 watts of power from its main studios and transmitter in Kelowna. The station was founded by three local radio stations: CKOV-AM (now CKQQ-FM) in Kelowna, CKOK (now CKOR) in Penticton and CJIB (now CKIZ-FM) in Vernon. Due to the mountainous terrain of the area, which impaired the primary signal in certain areas, the station began operating repeaters a few weeks later in Vernon (broadcasting on VHF channel 7, at 310 watts) and Penticton (broadcasting on VHF channel 13, at 300 watts). At the time of the station's sign-on, only 500 homes in the area had television receivers, but that amount rose to 10,000 the following year. The station had ordered two studio cameras, but due to the number of television stations that started up in North America during that period, the station had to make do with one camera on loan for a year until the order was filled. They also relied on 16 mm film, which was developed first by a local photo lab, and then again in-house.
  335.  
  336. In late 2003, the CBC notified CHBC that it did not intend to renew its affiliation agreement with the station after it expired in August 2005. In response, the station filed an application with the CRTC in 2004 to disaffiliate from the CBC; the CRTC gave approval to the disaffiliation on February 28, 2005. CBC Television's Vancouver O&O CBUT subsequently added a new rebroadcast transmitter in Kelowna, broadcasting on UHF channel 45. After its BCI-TV partner CFJC-TV received similar approval to disaffiliate from the CBC, both stations switched affiliations on February 27, 2006 and continued the operation of BCI-TV with new programs supplied from Canwest's secondary CH television system.
  337.  
  338. CHBC was the only Canwest-owned CH station to not use the CH brand on-air, opting to brand by its call letters instead, with its newscasts being titled CHBC News. The local newscast branding remained in use following CH's rebranding as E! in 2007. All programming on CHBC outside locally produced shows were branded under the "E!" name.
  339.  
  340. In November 2008, CHBC announced that it would move the production facilities for its newscasts from its studios in Kelowna to sister station CHEK in Victoria, to be produced from a virtual set, with production being taken over by Vancouver sister CHAN-TV. In addition, the noon newscast was cancelled.
  341.  
  342. On February 5, 2009, Canwest announced it would explore "strategic options", including a possible sale, for CHBC and its other E! owned-and-operated stations, stating that "a second conventional TV network [was] no longer key to the long-term success" of the company. Although for a time it was reported that CHBC might cease operations, Canwest ultimately decided to convert it into a Global owned-and-operated station on August 31, 2009. The Global Television Network's programming was already available in the Okanagan region through CHAN-TV out of Vancouver, which has operated a semi-satellite in the region, CHKL-TV, since the early 1980s. Station management later reversed its decision to move the studio segments to Victoria due to viewer complaints. The half-hour 11:00 p.m. newscast would later be expanded to one hour to make up for the loss of the half-hour noon newscast, while the 5:00 p.m. news began with a half-hour lifestyle-oriented newscast that was anchored by Doris Janssen.
  343.  
  344. CHBC and CHAN are expected to continue to operate separately for the foreseeable future, due in large part to the two stations' highly rated local and provincial newscasts. However, the two stations' schedules and advertising are virtually identical, including local news programming outside the supper hour. More specifically, CHBC simulcasts CHAN's programming at all times, with the exception of daily Kelowna-based newscasts seen exclusively on CHBC and its scheduling of the network's national evening newscast Global National, which CHBC airs at 6:00 p.m. (whereas CHAN airs it at 5:30 p.m.). Initially, there were also very minor differences within the two stations' prime time schedules, however both CHAN and CHBC began airing a common prime time schedule by the fall of 2011 if not sooner.
  345.  
  346. On July 7, 2010, CHBC introduced a new virtual set that is controlled out of the master control facilities at CHAN's studios in Vancouver. The station dropped the E!-era graphics it used for its newscasts and implemented a package used by Global's O&Os, but the station's newscasts continued to be branded as CHBC News until April 2013, when its newscasts were retitled as Global Okanagan News.
  347.  
  348. CHBC-DT presently broadcasts 19 and a half hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 3 and a half hours each weekday and 1 hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition to its main news department in Kelowna, the station also operates news bureaus in Vernon and Penticton.
  349.  
  350. Current local news programs
  351. Weekdays:
  352. Global News Morning (5:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.; CHAN simulcast)
  353. Global News at Noon (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
  354. Global News at 5 (5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)
  355. Global News at 6:30 (6:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
  356. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.)
  357.  
  358. Weekends:
  359. Global News Morning (7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.; CHAN simulcast)
  360. Global News at 5:30 (5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)
  361. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
  362.  
  363. ===
  364. CHAN-DT, virtual channel 8 (UHF digital channel 22), is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, serving as the network's West Coast flagship outlet. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CHAN-DT's studios are located on Enterprise Street in the suburban city of Burnaby, which also houses Global's national news centre. The station's transmitter is located atop Mount Seymour.
  365.  
  366. On cable, CHAN-DT is available on Shaw Cable channels 11 and 211 in the Vancouver area. On satellite, it is carried on Bell Satellite TV channel 1152, and Shaw Direct channel 212.
  367.  
  368. The station first signed on the air at 4:45 p.m. on October 31, 1960. Founded by Art Jones' Vantel Broadcasting, it originally operated as an independent station. It acquired several programs from CTV upon that network's launch on October 1, 1961; it would eventually join the network formally in 1965.
  369.  
  370. The station operated from a temporary studio housed at 1219 Richards Street in Downtown Vancouver, until its full-time studio facility at 7850 Enterprise Street in Burnaby was opened in 1962. Soon after the station's launch, CHAN began installing relay transmitters across the province, and now reaches 96% of British Columbia. Through its over-the-air signal, CHAN also reaches an American audience in neighbouring Whatcom County, Washington.
  371.  
  372. In 1963, local entrepreneur Frank Griffiths, owner of radio station CKNW (980 AM), purchased CHAN-TV from Vantel, along with nearby CBC affiliate CHEK-TV (channel 6) in the Vancouver Island city of Victoria, from its original owner, David Armstrong. At that point, CHEK began airing a few CTV programs, usually scheduled at different times than when CHAN aired them. It would become a full-time CTV affiliate in January 1981, but maintained a shuffled schedule. Griffiths' Western Broadcasting Communications later sold a minority share of the station to Selkirk Communications, before buying back full control in 1989.
  373.  
  374. In 1986, BCTV set up a fully functional broadcast studio pavilion at the Vancouver Expo 86, whose theme was transportation and communication. The BCTV pavilion allowed visitors to see, and participate, in every step of how a television station operates, as well as how newscasts and television shows were produced. The pavilion was also used by the station for coverage of the Expo, and by visiting journalists.
  375.  
  376. As early as 1971, CHAN unofficially began using the brand "BCTV". In 1973, BCTV became CHAN's official on-air branding, which remained in use until 2001, when it adopted the "Global BC" brand. The "BCTV" brand was retained for its local newscasts until February 2006. However, the "BCTV" brand became so firmly established in the province that many people still call the station by that name today.
  377.  
  378. CHAN was CTV's third-largest affiliate, and by far the largest in Western Canada. As such, it was one of the backbones of the CTV network for many years and one of the network's most successful affiliates. However, it was always somewhat hostile toward CTV. Management believed that the network's flagship station, CFTO-TV in Toronto, had too much influence over the network. In particular, CHAN felt CFTO received favouritism in the production of CTV's Canadian programming in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
  379.  
  380. Nonetheless, until 1997, CHAN bought the provincial rights to several popular series from CFTO's parent company, Baton Broadcasting. However, tensions were exacerbated that year when Baton won a licence to operate a new television station in Vancouver, CIVT-TV (channel 32), and immediately moved much of CHAN's stronger programs there. Baton won controlling interest in CTV soon after channel 32's launch, and it became an open secret that CIVT would eventually replace CHAN as the CTV station for the Vancouver market.
  381.  
  382. CHAN had signed a long-term contract with CTV several years earlier that would not expire until 1999, but was extended to 2001. However, the sign-on of CIVT meant that CHAN could only air CTV's base schedule of 40 hours of programming per week. The station had to fill the schedule with its local newscasts and lower-profile programming supplied by parent company Western International Communications. A small amount of CHUM Limited-produced programs also aired on CHAN at times during the period from 1997 to 2001, including CityLine.
  383.  
  384. On June 6, 2000 WIC's stations were purchased by Canwest Global Communications, which owned the Global Television Network. As a result, CHAN was due to become the Global outlet for all of British Columbia. Although Global already owned a station in Vancouver, CKVU (channel 10), it opted to sell CKVU to CHUM Limited and move its affiliation to CHAN. By this time, CHAN operated a network of over 100 transmitters covering almost all of the province, and had been the province's dominant news station for three decades. In contrast, CKVU operated only three transmitters covering the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island.
  385.  
  386. CHAN-TV's affiliation agreement with CTV expired on September 1, 2001, sparking a major shakeup in British Columbia television. The Global affiliation, held by CKVU, moved to CHAN, which became the network's new O&O under the "Global BC" brand.
  387.  
  388. For the most part, CHAN does not deviate much from the Global schedule. Some programs carried on Global's daytime schedule in other markets – primarily library programs from Corus Entertainment's specialty channels – are not cleared on CHAN in order to make room for the station's various local news programs. In February, the station broadcasts the annual Variety Show of Hearts telethon.
  389.  
  390. CHAN-DT presently broadcasts 48 and half hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7 and a half hours on weekdays and 5 and a half hours on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among Global's television stations (either owned-and-operated or affiliated), as well as the highest local newscast output out of any English-language television station in the Vancouver market.
  391.  
  392. Current local news programs
  393. Weekdays:
  394. Global News Morning (5:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.)
  395. Global News at Noon (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
  396. Global News at 5 (5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
  397. Global News Hour at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
  398. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.)
  399.  
  400. Weekends:
  401. Global News Morning (7:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.)
  402. Global News at Noon (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
  403. Global News Hour at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
  404. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
  405.  
  406. ===
  407. CKWS-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 11, is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CKWS-DT's studios are located on Queen Street in downtown Kingston, and its transmitter is located near Highway 95 on Wolfe Island, south of Kingston.
  408.  
  409. On cable, CKWS-DT is available on Cogeco digital channel 702 in high definition in Kingston and the Belleville/Trenton area. On satellite, the station is carried on Bell Satellite TV channel 233, and Shaw Direct channel 143.
  410.  
  411. CKWS signed-on December 18, 1954, as an affiliate of the CBC network. It was originally a joint venture between Roy Thomson and the Davies family, owners of the Kingston Whig-Standard (the source of its calls). The station has been sold three times: to the Kanatec Corporation, bought by Power Corporation in 1977 and to Corus in 1999.
  412.  
  413. During its days as a private CBC affiliate, it aired the minimum amount of CBC programming (40 hours per week).
  414.  
  415. On May 20, 2015, Corus and Bell Media announced an agreement whereby Corus' CBC affiliates, including CKWS, would leave the public network and instead "affiliate" with CTV. The switch took effect on August 31, 2015. Most TV service providers serving the region also carry CBC owned-and-operated station CBOT Ottawa, and any that do not will have to add a CBC affiliate such as CBOT to their basic services to comply with CRTC regulations. Legally, the affiliation was described as a "program supply agreement", and not as an "affiliation" (a term with specific legal implications under CRTC rules), as Corus maintained editorial control over the stations' programming and the ability to sell local advertising, and did not delegate responsibility for CTV programs aired by the station to Bell Media. Affiliations also require the consent of the CRTC.
  416.  
  417. The switch was approved by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission on August 27, 2015, when it dismissed objections by Rogers Media (who argued that the change was an "affiliation" and thus required CRTC consent to implement, and was not in the public interest because it created duplicate sources of CTV programming), and by a resident who complained that as he only received television over the air, he would lose his ability to receive CBC Television as a result of the disaffiliation.
  418.  
  419. On August 14, 2018, it was announced that CKWS' affiliation agreement with CTV would expire on August 27; the station subsequently became a Global owned-and-operated station, rebranding itself as Global Kingston.
  420.  
  421. CKWS produces 29 and a half hours per week of local news programming, with 5 and a half hours every weekday, and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays.
  422.  
  423. Current local news programs
  424. Weekdays:
  425. Global News Morning (6:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.)
  426. Global News at Noon (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
  427. Global News Hour at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
  428. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
  429.  
  430. Weekends:
  431. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  432. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
  433.  
  434. ===
  435. CHEX-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 12, is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CHEX-DT's studios are located on Monaghan Road (near Rose Avenue) in the southern portion of Peterborough, and its transmitter is located on Television Hill, just outside Peterborough.
  436.  
  437. On cable, the station is available on Cogeco digital channel 702 in high definition in the Peterborough area. On satellite, it is carried on Shaw Direct channel 142, and Bell Satellite TV channel 217.
  438.  
  439. The station signed on the air on March 26, 1955 as an independently-owned affiliate of CBC Television; its inaugural broadcast was a National Hockey League ice hockey game. CHEX was founded by a media partnership that already published the Peterborough Examiner newspaper and owned radio station CHEX (now CKRU). The partnership included politician Rupert Davies, who was also involved in a similar arrangement in Kingston that established CKWS-TV. The Davies family sold its media interests to Power Corporation of Canada in 1976. On April 13, 2000, the station was acquired by Canadian media conglomerate Corus Entertainment.
  440.  
  441. On May 20, 2015, Corus and Bell Media announced an agreement whereby its three CBC stations would leave the public network (after 60 years in the case of CHEX) and "affiliate" with CTV. The affiliation switch took effect on August 31, 2015. Most TV service providers serving the region already carry CBLT, and any that do not will have to add a CBC affiliate such as CBLT to their basic services in order to comply with Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) regulations.
  442.  
  443. Legally, the affiliation with CTV was described as a "program supply agreement", and not as an "affiliation" (a term with specific legal implications under CRTC rules), as Corus maintained editorial control over the stations' programming and the ability to sell local advertising, and did not delegate responsibility for CTV programs aired by the station to Bell Media. The switch was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on August 27, 2015, when it dismissed objections by Rogers Media (who argued that the change was an "affiliation" and thus required CRTC consent to implement, and was not in the public interest because it created duplicate sources of CTV programming), and by a resident who complained that as he only received television over the air, he would lose his ability to receive CBC Television as a result of the disaffiliation. Following the expiration of CHEX's three-year deal with CTV, the station became a Global owned-and-operated station (O&O) and rebranded itself as Global Peterborough on August 27, 2018.
  444.  
  445. CHEX-DT produces 29 and a half hours per week of local news programming, with 5 and a half hours every weekday, and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays.
  446.  
  447. Current local news programs
  448. Weekdays:
  449. Global News Morning (6:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.)
  450. Global News at Noon (12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
  451. Global News at 5 (5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
  452. Global News Hour at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
  453. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
  454.  
  455. Weekends:
  456. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.)
  457. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.)
  458.  
  459. ===
  460. CHEX-DT-2, virtual channel 22 (UHF digital channel 29), is a Global owned-and-operated television station licensed to Oshawa, Ontario, Canada and serving the Regional Municipality of Durham. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CHEX-DT-2's studios are located on Simcoe Street (just north of King Street) in Downtown Oshawa, and its transmitter is located on Enfield Road in Clarington. On cable, the station is available on Rogers Cable channel 12 in Oshawa; it is also carried on Rogers Cable digital channel 129 in the Greater Toronto Area.
  461.  
  462. CHEX-TV-2 was originally a CBC Television affiliate until August 31, 2015, when it became an affiliate of CTV. On August 14, 2018, it was announced that CHEX-TV-2's affiliation agreement with CTV would expire on August 27; the station subsequently became a Global owned-and-operated station known as Global Durham as of September 6.
  463.  
  464. Although operating as a separate station from Peterborough sister station CHEX-DT, it retains the CHEX-DT-2 callsign used when the station operated as a rebroadcaster of CHEX.
  465.  
  466. Oshawa, although larger in population than Peterborough, had not been granted a television station in the original channel assignments issued during the 1950s. Instead, the city was folded into the Toronto market. CHEX-TV-2 signed on the air in 1992, when CBC Television affiliate CHEX-TV in Peterborough began relaying its programming on a new rebroadcast transmitter in Oshawa; prior to 1988, the UHF channel 22 allocation had been used by CIII-TV's Toronto-area transmitter (and de facto flagship transmitter) in Uxbridge.
  467.  
  468. In 1993, the Oshawa transmitter became a semi-satellite with some slight differences in local programming. In 2004, the station relaunched as a full-fledged station with a very different schedule; for instance, the station produces a separate local newscast, Studio 12 News and current affairs program In Depth with Dan Carter, that are produced independently from CHEX and focus on the Durham Region. The station remained affiliated with CBC despite the fact its signal overlaps with that of the network's Toronto owned-and-operated station (O&O) CBLT-DT; as a result, the Toronto market was served by two CBC stations (the first since 1961, when CHCH-TV became an independent station).
  469.  
  470. On May 20, 2015, Corus and Bell Media announced an agreement whereby Corus' CBC affiliates, including CHEX-TV-2, would leave the public network and instead affiliate with CTV. The affiliation switch took effect on August 31, 2015. Due to the overlapping coverage discussed above, most TV service providers serving the region already carry CBLT, and any that do not will have to add a CBC affiliate such as CBLT to their basic services in order to comply with Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) regulations. CTV already served the CHEX-TV-2 viewing area through its Toronto O&O CFTO-DT; in consequence, the Toronto market was then served by two CTV outlets in most parts of the market (CFTO plus either CHEX-TV-2 or CKCO-DT in Kitchener). However, CHEX-TV-2 provided exclusive terrestrial coverage of CTV programming in most of the Durham Region and Toronto's east side, as CFTO's digital signal on VHF channel 9 is nulled to the east.
  471.  
  472. The switch was approved by the CRTC on August 27, 2015, when it dismissed objections by Rogers Media and by a resident who complained that as he only received television over the air, he would lose his ability to receive CBC Television as a result of the disaffiliation.
  473.  
  474. Legally, CHEX-TV-2's affiliation with CTV was described as a "program supply agreement," and not as an "affiliation" (a term with specific legal implications under CRTC rules), as Corus maintained editorial control over the stations' programming and the ability to sell local advertising, and did not delegate responsibility for CTV programs aired by the station to Bell Media.
  475.  
  476. On September 6, 2016, CHEX-DT, CHEX-TV-2 and CKWS-DT in Kingston began airing Global National at 5:30 p.m., as well as simulcasting The Morning Show from CIII-DT in Toronto. The station was rebranded as Global Durham on October 31, 2016, although entertainment programming was still supplied from CTV until August 27, 2018. The use of the Global news programming and name is despite the duplication from the coverage of CIII's Toronto signal; unlike CFTO, CIII's digital signal is omnidirectional, with a city grade signal as far east as Ajax and a Grade A signal as far east as Oshawa.
  477.  
  478. Today, the station carries the entire Global schedule, with the only exception being the soap opera The Young and the Restless, which is being not carried by CHEX-TV-2 in favour of syndicated programming at 4:30 p.m., and a local newscast at 5 p.m., however, Durham Region viewers are still able to see the soap through the network's flagship station, CIII, in Toronto, in its normal time slot.
  479.  
  480. Current local news programs
  481. Weekdays:
  482. Global News Morning (6:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.; CIII simulcast)
  483. Global News at Noon (12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.; CIII simulcast)
  484. Global News at 5 (5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
  485. Global News at 5:30 (5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.; CIII simulcast)
  486. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.; CIII simulcast)
  487. Global News at 7 (7:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.)
  488. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.)
  489.  
  490. Weekends:
  491. Global News at 6 (6:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.; CIII simulcast)
  492. Global News at 11 (11:00 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.; CIII simulcast)
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