Global Television Network

The Global Television Network (also Global TV, or more commonly just Global) is an English-language Canadian commercial television network owned by media company Corus Entertainment. It airs a mix of American TV shows and movies, along with some Canadian shows. It is the second-largest commercial network in Canada after CTV, in terms of size and audience reach.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Criticism of liberal bias, fake news and journalistic unprofessionalism
* 3 Global TV affiliates
* 3.1 Owned by Corus Entertainment
* 3.2 Independently owned
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## History[edit]

Global TV has its roots in a planned, but never launched, network called NTV, which was proposed to the Board of Broadcast Governors (the forerunner of today's Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission) in 1966 by Ken Soble, the owner of Hamilton, Ontario TV station CHCH-TV.[1] NTV was planned as a network which would carry the programming of CHCH to a network of satellite-fed retransmitters across Canada. Soble died in December 1966, leading to his widow Frances and Al Bruner, the vice-president of CHCH's then-parent Niagara Television, to take over the leadership of CHCH and continue the network proposal.[2] The NTV proposal was criticized for being financially unsustainable, exceeding media ownership limits of the time and for not planning on local news content outside of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. NTV never got off the ground after financial backer Power Corporation backed out of the network application to the BBG in 1968.

Following his release from CHCH in 1969, Bruner went ahead with an application to the CRTC for a scaled-down version of NTV, now going by the name Global TV under Bruner's Global Communications. Global planned to launch only in southern Ontario, with transmitters fed from a station based in Toronto. The network launched on January 6, 1974 with its Toronto station, CKGN-TV (now CIII-DT) and six retransmitters located between Windsor and Ottawa (a seventh transmitter at Maxville, Ontario was denied due to that town's proximity to Montreal, which was under a CRTC-imposed moratorium on new TV stations in the city at that time).

Global became financially insolvent within three months of its launch and was purchased by a group headed by Izzy Asper, who later became the owner of Winnipeg TV station CKND-TV. Global began syndicating the shows it carried to other independent stations in Canada soon after its bailout. Asper's company, CanWest Capital, later merged with Global Communications to create Canwest Global Communications and acquired controlling interest in the network in 1985.

Canwest subsequently began acquiring some of the stations that carried Global programming, including CKVU-TV Vancouver and CIHF-TV Halifax, as well as launching stations in Saskatchewan under the branding of STV, to form the Canwest Global System, a system of independent stations with individual branding for each station, in 1990. Following the acquisition of majority ownership in Quebec City's then-CBC affiliate CKMI-TV and relaunching it as a Global station, the system relaunched as a network on August 18, 1997, using the generic Global TV brand (with no regional branding variations) on all of its owned stations from Vancouver to Halifax. When Canwest purchased the broadcast TV assets of Western International Communications in 2000, it added former WIC-owned independent stations in Alberta (CITV-TV Edmonton, CICT-TV Calgary and CISA-TV Lethbridge) to Global TV that year, then added former CTV affiliate CHAN-TV Vancouver on September 1, 2001 as a replacement for CKVU, which was up for sale and went independent the same day. Canwest went into creditor protection in October 2009 and its assets, including Global TV, were acquired by Shaw Communications in October 2010, then were turned over in turn to Shaw sister company Corus in April 2016.

From its 1974 launch, Global has grown to its current level of 15 stations owned by Corus, along with one independently-owned affiliate. St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador independent station CJON-DT is also supplied with some Global programming, though it is not branded as such on the station (except for national newscast Global National) but is instead marketed as syndicated programming.

## Criticism of liberal bias, fake news and journalistic unprofessionalism[edit]

Once a bastion for fair reporting in its newscasts, Global, like the rest of the mainstream media, has recently taken a turn toward the Left akin to the CBC and most of the American networks in its news reporting and has shown blatant liberal bias and dishonesty in certain reports it has filed.

* When the election campaign bus of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was recently blocked by Aboriginal protesters during a campaign stop in Victoria, Global News political correspondent David Akin (who is also a member of the NDP-supporting media union Unifor, which has engaged in conflict of interest by producing election campaign ads attacking the Conservatives[3]) falsely claimed online that the bus had not been blocked and that video posted of the blockade by the protesters was "fake news" despite being present at the event.[4] Akin was called out for his dishonesty soon after he made his claim online, with Rebel News reporters Sheila Gunn Reid and Efron Monsanto calling Akin fake news for his comments while videographer Mocha Bezirgan replied to Akin by pointing out to him that he was not telling the truth, then posted a half-hour time-lapse video of the incident showing the protesters' actions; rather than retract his lie or apologize, Akin, showing himself unwilling to face or accept the truth, responded by indignantly blocking Bezirgan from his Twitter account.
* When the Trudeau campaign was confronted by protesters at a later campaign stop in White Rock, British Columbia, Global News reporter Abigail Bimman, who was in White Rock to cover the campaign, falsely claimed in a Twitter post that one of the protesters had yelled an anti-Semitic slur at Trudeau, a claim which was discredited in video posted by Rebel News in response.[5] After the video was posted, Bimman doubled down on her lie in response, insisting that she had heard an anti-Semitic slur used by one of the protesters, which was also debunked by Rebel News reporter Matt Brevner (who stated that he heard no such comments ever used by the protesters against Trudeau). Bimman's tweet was also heavily criticized by numerous posters in response,[6] with many of them calling Bimman out for lying as they stated that they heard no anti-Semitic slurs yelled in the video as claimed by Bimman, but that one of the anti-Trudeau protesters had actually yelled that the protesters did not want a two-tiered society, referencing the unconstitutional mandating of "vaccine passports" by Trudeau and his provincial counterparts.
* Shortly after Pierre Poilievre became the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada on September 10, 2022, David Akin engaged in journalistic unprofessionalism by seeing fit to heckle Poilievre and constantly interrupt and talk over him during a speech Poilievre was giving; Poilievre shut Akin down in response by calling him a "Liberal heckler".[7]
* Global News reporter Rachel Gilmore, a self-appointed "fake news fighter", was outed as a fake news pusher herself[8] when she retweeted a since-discredited Vice Media report that had claimed that Tesla owner Elon Musk had consulted with Russian president Vladimir Putin regarding a diplomatic solution to end the Russia-Ukraine war.[9] After getting roasted for posting her misinformation-spreading post on Twitter over an hour after Musk debunked Vice's claims (in which he stated that he had spoken to Putin only once, about space, 18 months prior to the Vice article) and for her hypocrisy in accusing others of spreading "fake news" and "disinformation" while doing exactly that herself, Gilmore was forced to update her post to include Musk's refutal of the Vice story.

Global has also come under criticism as one of numerous Canadian media outlets, large and small, that took bribe money from Justin Trudeau (totaling nearly C$660 million) to cover for him in news reports (including asking him "softball" questions while whitewashing and ignoring the numerous scandals he has faced while in power) and spout the same fake news, lies and twisting of narratives already being spewed by the CBC.[10] The Canadian Taxpayers Federation launched a petition in February 2022 that called for an end to Trudeau's unethical use of taxpayer funds to bribe other media outlets (including Global) to report favorably about the Trudeau regime and to lie about and smear the regime's opponents like the CBC does, as well as calling for the CBC to be defunded.[11]

## Global TV affiliates[edit]

### Owned by Corus Entertainment[edit]

Station  | City  | First sign-on date  | Notes

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CHAN-DT  | Vancouver, British Columbia  | October 31, 1960  | Replaced CKVU-DT as Vancouver's Global affiliate when CKVU became independent on September 1, 2001; originally an independent station at its launch, then was a CTV affiliate from that network's launch on October 1, 1961 until August 31, 2001
CHBC-DT  | Kelowna, British Columbia  | September 21, 1957  | Was a CBC affiliate until February 27, 2006, then became independent until joining Canwest's E! system on September 7, 2007; joined Global on August 31, 2009 after E! ceased operations
CICT-DT  | Calgary, Alberta  | October 8, 1954  | Was Calgary's original CBC affiliate until September 1, 1975, when it became independent after CBC-owned CBRT signed on; joined Global on September 4, 2000; was known as CHCT-TV until 1968, then CFAC-TV until 1990 and then CKKX-TV until 1993
CITV-DT  | Edmonton, Alberta  | September 1, 1974  | Was independent until joining Global on September 4, 2000
CISA-DT  | Lethbridge, Alberta  | November 20, 1955  | Was a CBC affiliate until September 1, 1975, when it became independent after CBC-owned CBRT signed on in Calgary; joined Global on September 4, 2000; was known as CJLH-TV until 1972, then CJOC-TV until 1976 and then CFAC-TV-7 until 1990
CFSK-DT  | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan  | September 6, 1987  | Independent until it joined Global on August 18, 1997
CFRE-DT  | Regina, Saskatchewan  | September 6, 1987  | Independent until it joined Global on August 18, 1997
CKND-DT  | Winnipeg, Manitoba  | August 31, 1975  | Originated in Pembina, North Dakota as ABC/NBC affiliate KCND-TV in 1960; acquired by Canwest on March 31, 1975 and relaunched in Winnipeg with its current call sign on August 31 that year; independent until it joined Global on August 18, 1997
CIII-DT  | Toronto, Ontario  | January 6, 1974  | Flagship station of Global TV; was known as CKGN-TV until 1984
CKWS-DT  | Kingston, Ontario  | December 18, 1954  | Was a CBC affiliate until August 31, 2015, when it affiliated with CTV; disaffiliated from CTV to join Global on August 27, 2018
CHEX-DT  | Peterborough, Ontario  | March 25, 1955  | Was a CBC affiliate until August 31, 2015, when it affiliated with CTV; disaffiliated from CTV to join Global on August 27, 2018
CHEX-TV-2  | Oshawa, Ontario  | 1992  | Began as a rebroadcaster of CHEX-TV in Peterborough, then became a semi-satellite with some separate programming in 1993; was a CBC affiliate until August 31, 2015, when it affiliated with CTV; disaffiliated from CTV to join Global on August 27, 2018
CKMI-DT  | Montreal, Quebec  | March 17, 1957  | Originated in Quebec City, where it was officially licenced and based until moving to Montreal in 2009; was a CBC affiliate until it joined Global on August 18, 1997
CHNB-DT  | Saint John, New Brunswick  | September 5, 1988  | Formerly a semi-satellite of CIHF Halifax until April 15, 2013 under the call sign CIHF-TV-2; independent until it joined Global on August 18, 1997
CIHF-DT  | Halifax, Nova Scotia  | September 5, 1988  | Independent until it joined Global on August 18, 1997

### Independently owned[edit]

Station  | City  | First sign-on date  | Notes

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CHFD-DT  | Thunder Bay, Ontario  | October 14, 1972  | Owned by Dougall Media; was Thunder Bay's original CTV affiliate until February 12, 2010
CJON-DT  | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador  | September 6, 1955  | Owned by Stirling Communications International; was a CBC affiliate until October 1, 1964, then a primary CTV affiliate until 2002; technically an independent station, but carries some news and entertainment programming from Global TV in addition to news and sports programming from CTV and entertainment programming from other sources

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Global TV history
2. ↑ "Fired CTV official pilots plans for a third, satellite-based network". The Globe and Mail, January 19, 1967.
3. ↑ Why didn’t mainstream media report when Aboriginal protests blocked Trudeau’s campaign bus? at Rebel News
4. ↑ Trudeau campaign bus blocked by Indigenous activists at Rebel News
5. ↑ Protesters chase Prime Minister Trudeau out of British Columbia event at Rebel News
6. ↑ Abigail Bimman: "Trudeau marched by police all the way down street away from announcement site and around the corner before getting in a vehicle as he was surrounded and screamed at by protesters the whole time" at Twitter (Warning: Contains liberal fake news and some tweets with foul language)
7. ↑ Pierre Poilievre accuses mainstream media journalist of being "Liberal heckler" at True North YouTube channel
8. ↑ Ian Miles Cheong: "So you ripped off the VICE report and didn’t do any fact checking of your own or get comment from Elon Musk" at Twitter
9. ↑ Global News' Rachel Gilmore publishes breaking fake news about Elon Musk at Rebel News
10. ↑ Multiple references:
* How Trudeau bought the media at the Western Standard
* Justin Trudeau Gives $595 Million Tax Relief to ‘Eligible’ Media at Breitbart News Network
* Trudeau’s Manipulation of the Media
* Every news media who secretly took Trudeau's $61M pre-election pay-off at Rebel News
11. ↑ Taxpayer watchdog launches petition to defund CBC and end media funding at True North

## External links[edit]

* Global TV official website