22 Facts About Global TV

Global TV has its origins in a regional television station of the same name, serving Southern Ontario, which launched in 1974.

Global TV then put together another investment team to form Global Communications, which carried the network application forward thereafter.

Global TV Communications put forward a revised application under which the network would launch with transmitters only in Ontario, as an interim step toward the eventual buildout of the entire network originally envisioned by Soble.

Unable to meet daily expenses, Global TV initially approached potential bidders including Channel Seventynine, Denison Mines, Standard Broadcasting and the Jim Pattison Group, and was bailed out by IWC Communications, a syndicate which included Toronto businessman Paul Morton, broadcaster Allan Slaight and Izzy Asper, a Manitoba politician turned broadcaster.

Global TV enhanced its senior talent pool in 1979 with the arrival of sales guru Dave Mintz, formerly of KVOS-TV, as the network's president, 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.

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However, soon after Asper bought controlling interest in Global TV, he seemed eager to grow his chain of stations into a third national network.

Global TV started by launching CFRE-DT in Regina and CFSK-DT in Saskatoon, and winning a legal battle for CKVU-DT in Vancouver during the second half of the 1980s.

Global TV acquired the fledgling CIHF-DT in Halifax in the early 1990s.

Similarly, Global TV lacked a full-time station in St John's, where Global TV programming was carried by longtime CTV affiliate CJON-TV.

Global TV News is the news and current affairs division of the Global TV Television Network, which is based in Vancouver.

Global TV-owned stations in certain major markets carry locally based public affairs programs under the Focus brand.

Global TV 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.

In 2003, Global TV signed comedian Mike Bullard, host of the nightly Open Mike with Mike Bullard on CTV and The Comedy Network, to a multi-year contract for a new nightly talk show on Global TV, but that series was cancelled after 60 episodes amid poor ratings.

Global TV purchased the rights to produce a Canadian version of the popular entertainment magazine Entertainment Tonight; ET Canada launched on September 12,2005.

Global TV is not the only Canadian broadcaster to use simsubs; nonetheless, some complaints, specific to Global TV, have arisen due to the following related practices:.

Global TV was the longtime broadcaster of National Football League football games in Canada, an association that ended in 2007 when CTV outbid Global TV for the NFL broadcast package.

Global TV Video is an online internet television service offering programming that airs both on Global TV and many of Corus Entertainment's cable channels.

In October 2004, Global TV launched a 1080i high definition simulcast feed of its Toronto station CIII-TV called Global TV HD and started airing select American programs in HD; some Canadian series such as Falcon Beach eventually began to be included among its HD programs.

Global TV HD is available nationally via satellite and on digital cable as well as for free over-the-air using a regular TV antenna and a digital tuner on the following channels:.

Global TV network has long been much more decentralized than either CBC or CTV.

In September 2016, except for local newscasts, Global TV has updated its bug back to "Global TV" without an additional local station city below it.

Global TV previously maintained a secondary television system similar to CTV 2.