Global News
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Global News is the news and current affairs division of the Canadian Global Television Network. The network is owned by Corus Entertainment, which oversees all of the network's national news programming as well as local news on its 21 owned-and-operated stations.
Corus currently operates one all-news radio station, and previously operated several talk radio stations, under the "Global News Radio" brand. The same division also operates a news website under the same brand.
National programs
Although Global stations had always carried local news in various forms, the first tentative steps towards a national presence came in 1994 with the launch of
In September 2001, Global replaced Canada Tonight with a new network newscast,
Originally airing in different timeslots around the country, Global National moved to a standard 5:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. Atlantic) start time nationwide in 2006. Since then, Global National has gained ground on longtime number-one CTV National News, overtaking it on several occasions. A Mandarin version of the newscast, titled Global National Mandarin, launched on January 23, 2012, with anchor Carol Wang, and is seen weeknights on Shaw Multicultural Channel in Vancouver and Calgary.[1]
On January 7, 2013, the network extended its
Global launched its first investigative
During the
The West Block, a Sunday morning national political affairs show, debuted on November 6, 2011.[3] Hosted by Tom Clark from 2011 to 2016, its current host is Mercedes Stephenson.
The investigative series 16x9 as well as Global National Mandarin were both cancelled on June 28, 2016.[4][5] Global National Mandarin aired its final broadcast on June 30, 2017 .
Local programs
In the network's original form as an independent station based exclusively in Ontario, the original news anchors were Peter Trueman and Peter Desbarats who launched Global News in 1974.[6]
Until 1997, the name Global News was used only for the local newscasts on Global Ontario, and Canwest's other local television stations all had different newscast titles.
With the nationwide launch of the Global brand in 1997, Global News was also adopted as a standard title for local newscasts on Global owned-and-operated stations. The long-dominant CHAN-TV Vancouver (BCTV) had been an exception; its news operation was renamed BCTV News on Global when it became a Global owned-and-operated in 2001, and its individual newscast titles (e.g. News Hour) were also retained.[citation needed]
Upon the acquisition of the assets of Western International Communications in 2000 by Global's then-parent company Canwest, it launched the CH television system in 2001, which consisted of CHEK-TV Victoria, CHCH-TV Hamilton and CJNT-TV Montreal as well as CHCA-TV Red Deer. Its newscasts were titled CH News.[citation needed]
As part of a network-wide branding overhaul, local newscast titles and timeslots were standardized effective February 6, 2006,
- Global News Morning: weekdays 5–9 am and weekends 7–10 am (BC, Calgary, Edmonton); weekdays 6–10 am (Halifax); weekdays 6–9 am (all other stations); (previously known as Morning News)
- Global News at Noon: weekdays and weekends at noon (previously known as Noon News Hour)
- Global News at 5: weekdays at 5:00 pm (BC, Okanagan, Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Saskatchewan; previously known as Early News)
- Global News at 5:30: weekdays at 5:30 pm (Toronto and Montreal)
- Global News Hour at 6: nightly at 6:00 pm (BC, Calgary, and Edmonton, previously known as News Hour)
- Global News at 6: nightly at 6:00 pm for 30 minutes (Lethbridge, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Halifax, New Brunswick; previously known as Evening News)
- Global News at 6:30: weeknights at 6:30 pm (Okanagan and Montreal)
- ) or 11:00 pm (previously known as News Hour Final or News Final)
- Focus: Weekends (Regina/Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, BC1)
On October 4, 2007, Canwest announced it would be centralizing news production control room functions for all owned-and-operated stations (except CHBC-TV Kelowna) at four broadcast centres – CHAN-DT Vancouver, CITV-TV Edmonton, CICT-TV Calgary, and CIII-TV Toronto. The company stated this would allow all of its stations to make a transition to high definition broadcasting, and create around 50 new jobs at the four stations. Approximately 250 positions were to be eliminated in the other stations, the majority of which were behind-the-scenes/technical positions.[8]
A press release from the company has also stated that on-air talent (including weather anchors), reporters, producers, photographers, editors, and other news gathering positions will remain at the affected stations. Global Edmonton took over production of Global Maritimes' newscasts in mid-August 2008, and on September 4, 2008, took over production of all newscasts at
On May 31, 2011, Shaw Media announced that new weekday local morning shows would be launched on Global Toronto, Global Winnipeg, Global Saskatoon, Global Regina and Global Maritimes in late 2011. Local Sunday morning newscasts were also announced for Global Edmonton and Global Calgary, which launched in September 2011. The increase in news programming is part of a benefits package that Shaw Media has promised to fulfill as a condition to purchasing the network.[9]
On May 30, 2012, Shaw Media announced further expansions to Global's news programming offerings, with the launch of a new half-hour noon newscast on Global Toronto on August 27, and the expansion of primetime newscasts on Global Winnipeg, Global Saskatoon, Global Regina to one hour (and in turn, re-branding them from Prime News to News Hour Final) on August 20. The previously announced weekday morning newscasts on Global Montreal and Global Maritimes were also confirmed to launch in fall 2012 on dates yet to be determined (their launches were later postponed to early 2013).[10] Local morning newscasts on Global BC, Global Edmonton and Global Calgary were also expanded, with the weekday morning newscasts on all three stations lengthened to four hours on August 27, and the Sunday morning news programs expanding to three hours starting September 2, 2012. 16:9 was also moved from Saturdays to Friday nights, and Global News' website also received a redesign in early 2013 with compatibility for mobile devices in mind.[11]
Centralization
On April 9, 2015, Shaw announced cutbacks of Global's local news operations and a subsequent re-organization. Under these changes, which began to take effect in August 2015, production of late night and weekend newscasts in markets outside of Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, and Toronto, are centralized out of Global's studios in Toronto. Anchors and meteorologists are provided by the centralized news operation, while local stories are presented by the station's reporters.[12]
Local morning shows in these markets also switched to a hybrid local/national format with an eight-minute long national segment every half-hour. Local morning shows and evening newscasts otherwise continue to be produced locally. Troy Reeb, Global's senior vice president of news and station operations, explained that these changes would allow individual stations to devote more resources to the creation of local news content for television and digital platforms, and reduce redundancy in their coverage of national headlines. Reeb also explained that the changes were meant to allow staff reductions, whilst allowing the network to "find innovative ways" to distribute news content; at least 80 jobs were lost nationwide as part of the process.[13][14]
In June 2015, Global announced that it had acquired Canadian rights to
Centralization of news presentation has been partially reverted as of January 2019. 11:00 p.m. newscasts east of Manitoba are still anchored from Toronto. Global Regina, Global Saskatoon, and Global Winnipeg no longer use Toronto anchors for their 10:00 p.m. local newscasts. Further decentralization has occurred as of March 2021, with the three prairie stations centralizing their weekday evening newscast production through a new MMC base out of Global's Regina's facility. The Saskatchewan 5 p.m. news, the Regina and Saskatoon 6 & 10 p.m. newscasts, and the Winnipeg 10:00 p.m. news, are presented in an MMC format by an anchor from the Global's Winnipeg studios. Global Winnipeg's 6:00 p.m newscast continues to be presented live from Winnipeg.[17] Weekend newscasts have not changed and are still anchored out of Toronto from Saskatchewan to Nova Scotia.
In September 2020, Global Montreal switched to a Toronto anchor for its evening news.[18]
News channels
On January 11, 2012, Shaw Media announced it had filed an application with the
On September 22, 2014, Shaw Media filed an application with the CRTC to launch a national news channel, to be branded as Global News 1.[21] Billed as a "hybrid" local and national news channel, the service would broadcast news reports from Global's national news bureau and its local stations, and would open eight new newsrooms in underserved areas of Canada.[22] The application is pending CRTC approval. According to a news release, Global News 1 was intended to launch in 2016 but there were no further updates on the channel after its initial announcement.
Global News 24/7 Online
On March 2, 2020, Corus Entertainment officially launched their new Global TV app and website which included more options for streaming live channels, including 24-hour Global News feeds. Similar to the proposed Global News 1 concept, users can select their region from a list of Global markets to receive local newscasts, national news headlines, live news events, and weather in the ticker on the side of the screen. The content of the newscasts are nationally produced using Global's multi-market anchors at Toronto and local anchors from its Calgary and Vancouver newsrooms. If a local market is selected, the feed will be replaced with that market's local newscast at their scheduled airing times. As of April 2022, feeds from all Global stations (except Global New Brunswick and Global Durham) are available. Unlike the other channels available for streaming on the Global TV app and website, the Global News 24/7 channels do not require a sign-in by a TV provider and can be accessed completely free of charge.[23] The service was expanded to Amazon Prime Video in early April 2020. It is available free of charge to all Amazon users, without an Amazon Prime subscription required; local feeds for BC, Toronto, Edmonton, and Calgary, as well as the national Indi Global News 24/7 feed is available on Prime.
Global News Weekend
Global News Weekend, a new national morning show streaming exclusively through the Global TV app and globaltv.com, was announced on April 24, 2020. The show is hosted by Global Toronto personalities Aalia Adams and Mike Arsenault. Airing from 7am to 10am ET on Saturdays and Sundays, the show provides viewers with "content ranging from the latest breaking news to exciting and in-depth interviews and frequent, detailed weather reports."[24]
Global News Radio
In 2017, Corus Radio began to re-brand
As of January 2022, the "Global News Radio" brand is no longer in use on Corus' news-talk stations as the primary brand, however hourly and half-hourly news bulletins on those stations remain branded as "Global News". The only station still using the "Global News Radio" brand full time is CHQT Edmonton, where it broadcasts an all-news format, and simulcasts TV newscasts from Global Edmonton.
Stations that formerly operated under the branding:
Province | City | Call Sign | Format |
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Alberta | Calgary | CHQR | News talk |
Edmonton | CHED | News talk** | |
British Columbia | |||
Vancouver | CKNW | News talk | |
Manitoba | |||
Winnipeg | CJOB | News talk | |
Ontario | |||
London | CFPL | News talk | |
Hamilton | CHML | News talk | |
Toronto | CFIQ | News talk |
Criticism
In July 2010, Global National showed footage of a demonstration at the 2010 Winter Olympics in a segment about a Toronto march held by groups demanding a public inquiry into police actions during a G20 conference. The report included clips of violence that erupted on Toronto streets during the event. After this was reported in Canadian blog Insights, Global claimed it was an "unintentional editing error".[27]
References
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- ^ "Global News Takes Breakfast to New Heights With a National Version of the Morning Show". Global Television / Shaw Media press release. December 12, 2012. Archived from the original on December 15, 2012. Retrieved December 16, 2012.
- ^ "CTV’s Question Period to face competition" Archived 2012-10-25 at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Star, September 9, 2011.
- ^ "Global National Mandarin Wrapping Up Production | Shaw Support". community.shaw.ca. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
- ^ Staff. "16X9 cancelled, Liza Fromer contract not renewed amid changes at Global News". Archived from the original on 2016-08-01. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
- ^ "Former Global News anchor Peter Desbarats remembered as ‘first-class journalist’" Archived 2014-02-14 at the Wayback Machine. Global News, February 12, 2014.
- ^ Global News Brings Enhanced National and Local News Package Archived 2009-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, Global press release, February 1, 2006. Accessed online August 7, 2010 via Channel Canada.
- ^ "CanWest To Launch State-of-the-Art Broadcast Centres; Cuts Jobs". Channel Canada. 4 October 2007. Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ^ Global News redefines morning television in Toronto with The Morning Show featuring the return of Liza Fromer Archived 2011-07-02 at the Wayback Machine, Global press release, May 31, 2011. Accessed online June 22, 2011.
- ^ TV, Live. "Global News Edmonton Live Stream | Watch Live TV Free". Global News Edmonton Live Stream | Watch Live TV Free. Retrieved 2023-04-13.
- ^ "Global News Boosts Local Programming Across the Country". Broadcaster Magazine. May 30, 2012. Archived from the original on June 2, 2016. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
- ^ Faguy, Steve. "Another step in Global's faking of local news". Archived from the original on 18 August 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
- ^ "Global News announces significant changes to how news is produced". Global News. Archived from the original on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ^ Faguy, Steve (April 21, 2015). "Global TV cuts staff in Montreal, will anchor some local newscasts from Toronto". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on 24 April 2015. Retrieved 26 April 2015.
- ^ Faguy, Steve. "Global Montreal adding more local newscasts this fall". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on 4 June 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ "Global Montreal planning a noon local newscast this fall (but why?)". Fagstein. Archived from the original on 4 June 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
- ^ "Global restructures Manitoba & Saskatchewan news operations". 4 February 2021.
- ^ Faguy, Steve (2020-09-22). "Global Montreal replaces Jamie Orchard with Toronto-based anchor, cancels Focus Montreal". Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ Shaw Media to Launch All-News Network in BC Archived 2012-01-22 at the Wayback Machine, Broadcaster Magazine, January 11, 2012.
- ^ "Shaw granted 24-hour all-news channel for British Columbia". GlobalTVBC.com. Shaw Media. 2012-07-20. Archived from the original on 2012-09-08. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
- ^ "Shaw Media seeking to launch Global News 1 national all-news channel" Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine. Financial Post, July 4, 2014.
- ^ "Shaw Media announces proposal for 24-hour channel Global News 1". Global News. September 24, 2014. Archived from the original on 2021-04-13. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ^ "Global TV app adds Adult Swim and National Geographic to channel lineup". Archived from the original on 2020-03-03. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
- ^ "'Global News Weekend': New morning show launching on Global TV app". Global News. Archived from the original on 2020-04-29. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
- ^ "CHQT (iNews 880)/Edmonton Rebrands Today As Global News Radio 880 Edmonton". All Access. Archived from the original on 2018-08-07. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ^ "Corus rebrands another news-talk station". Cartt.ca. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ^ Columbia Journalism Review "Canadian Media in Crisis Archived 2010-10-20 at the Wayback Machine"