CIII-TV
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CIII-DT-41 is a television station
owned by Shaw Communications
that serves much of the population of the Canadian
province of Ontario
. It is a flagship station of the Global Television Network
. From its launch in 1974 until 2009, the station's main transmitter was licensed to Paris
, a small town near Brantford, but following a licence amendment in 2009, Toronto
is now the station's primary city of licence. Through its entire history, however, the station's main studio has always been in Toronto. Most cable television
systems in Ontario carry the station, normally on channel 3.
Upon launching in 1974, the station was known as the "Global Television Network
", a name which reflected its then-unprecedented coverage of several Ontario markets through a network of satellite-fed transmitters. The name would be adopted nationally by the Canwest (now Shaw Media
) station group in 1997, at which point CIII became known internally as "Global Ontario", but generally avoided 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
, unlike other Global stations.
The callsign CKGN-TV was changed to CIII-TV in January 1984, to mark the 10th anniversary of the station. The Windsor/Cottam transmitter would be an exception for a few years as it continued to be identified in CRTC documents as CKGN-TV-1, perhaps because of licensing issues with nearby Detroit broadcasters (see "Transmitters and Facilities" below). ("CKGN" was a former callsign for a television station in North Bay, Ontario
from 1955 to 1962, known today as CKNY-TV
. The "CKGN" calls are now used by a Kapuskasing, Ontario
radio station, CKGN-FM
.)
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. In the late 1990s, its focus turned almost exclusively toward Toronto.
CIII was originally owned by Global Communications, which was fully acquired by Izzy Asper
in 1989. Asper's stations, including UTV
in Vancouver, STV (CFRE-TV
/CFSK-TV
) in Saskatchewan
, CKND-TV
in Winnipeg
, and MITV
in the Maritimes
, formed a mini-network for a number of years, which evolved into the Global that Canadians know today. All of these stations began using the "Global" brand, in addition to CIII, in 1997.
Early on, its flagship news program Global News was developed under the guidance of Bill Cunningham, a CBC News veteran, and in the beginning it was anchored by Peter Trueman
in Toronto
and Peter Desbarats
in Ottawa
. In the early years it was one of the most successful and important programs the station had. Peter Trueman has noted in his memoir that the program was groundbreaking: "Our newsroom-studio combination ... served as a model for the new CHAN-TV
facilities in Vancouver, and it is currently [1979] the inspiration for Ted Turner
's new Cablenews operation in Atlanta". The CBC also looked to it for inspiration when it changed its national news format in the early 1980s. The program also pioneered the use of "regional correspondents", usually print or radio journalists, who would regularly advise the station about stories in their part of Ontario. This allowed field producers and a Global crew to target key stories of the day. "This is the main reason that much of Global's ex-urban coverage has been so effective", Trueman wrote in 1979.
During the 1980s, Global greatly expanded its news operation, with an hour-and-a-half of news starting at 5:30 p.m., plus news at noon and at 11 p.m. By the end of the 1980s, the noon news was simply called News at Noon, the 5:30 news was called First News, the 6:00 news was called The Six O'Clock Report, and the 11:00 news was called The World Tonight. Trueman left in 1988. Other anchors over the years have included Mike Anscombe
, Beverly Thomson
, John Dawe, Jane Gilbert, Peter Kent
, Loretta Sullivan, Bob McAdorey
, Thalia Assuras
, and Anne-Marie Mediwake
.
In keeping with the avoidance of regional branding noted above, CIII, up until recently used "Global News", as opposed to a regional name such as "Global Ontario", as its main news brand. In the fall of 2009, however, for news programming, it began using "Global Toronto", since its newscasts focus primarily on that city. Individual newscasts are titled News Hour, News Final, etc. Global Toronto doesn't have its own entertainment or sports reporters. Entertainment news is provided by Entertainment Tonight Canada
and sports news is provided by the all sports channel The Score Television Network.
From 1994 to 2001, CIII also produced First National, which was anchored by Peter Kent
and seen at 6:30 p.m. weeknights. In 2001, the program was replaced by Canada Tonight
, which in turn was replaced that fall with Global National
, anchored by Kevin Newman
, it originated from Global BC
in Vancouver
before moving to a dedicated studio in Ottawa
in February 2008. From February to August 2009, CIII simulcast CHCH-TV
's Morning Live, originating in Hamilton, Ont.
, from 7:00 AM to 9:00 a.m. CIII previously produced its own morning show called Global News Morning, but dropped it after low ratings and as a cost-cutting measure. The Noon News Hour was cancelled as well. The CHCH simulcast was later dropped after Canwest sold the Hamilton station to Channel Zero
, with CIII now airing second-run lifestyle programming in the morning timeslot. CIII currently reruns the previous night's News Hour Final.
On October 11, 2011 CIII-TV launched a three-hour morning newscast titled The Morning Show
. Hosted by Liza Fromer and Dave Gerry (both former hosts of Citytv's Breakfast Television
programme in Toronto and Vancouver, respectively), production of the show takes place in a new storefront studio at Shaw Media's Bloor Street building in Downtown Toronto; Kris Reyes serves as the news anchor of the show, and Daru Dhillon provides weather forecasts. The new programme runs from 6 to 9 a.m. ET
. The announcement also coincided with the announcements of new local morning shows for other Global stations across Canada. The station also moved its early-evening newscast, News Hour, a half-hour earlier to 5:30 p.m. to coincide with a shift of Global National to the 6:30 p.m. slot, joining Montreal's CKMI-DT and Halifax's CIHF-DT as the only Global stations to carry the network's national newscast in that timeslot.
Local program hosts
Weather team
Traffic
Reporters
Studios and offices are located at 81 Barber Greene Road in the Don Mills
section of Toronto, the same address from which broadcasts began in 1974. Secondary studio and news bureau
facilities are located at the National Press Centre in Ottawa.
A series of rebroadcast transmitters relay the CIII signal to much of Ontario. Most of these use the call sign CIII followed by a number to denote their status as rebroadcasters, except in Sudbury and North Bay
where the CFGC call sign is assigned. The most likely explanation for using CFGC is that the close resemblance between the number 1 and the letter I would make CIII-TV-11 an undesirable call sign for Sudbury, while North Bay couldn't use CIII-TV-2 as that call sign is already in use in Bancroft
.
These six transmitters formed the original 1974 service:
The Cottam transmitter was frequently blank during the airing of prime-time American imports as the signal reached into Detroit; Windsor is reckoned as part of the Detroit market for purposes of programming rights. This also affected CBC's station in Windsor, CBET
, which frequently had to air alternative programs. For more information on this, see Media in Windsor, Ontario
and Media in Detroit
.
In 1986, the CRTC approved the relocation of the Windsor-area transmitter from Cottam to Stevenson. This transmitter (then CIII-TV-1) was silent for several years following a transmitter fire in the late 1970s. Some time after this, the CIII-TV-22 call letters from the now-disused Uxbridge transmitter were re-assigned to the Stevenson transmitter. The transmitter is located southwest of Wheatley
, between Wheatley and Leamington, but its signal is aimed northeast (towards Chatham-Kent
), and barely reaches Windsor and Detroit—presumably to protect the Detroit stations.
CIII-TV-22 (the transmitter in Uxbridge) had an effective radiated power of 5 MW, making it Canada's most-powerful transmitter.
The Uxbridge transmitter was eliminated in 1988, replaced by CIII-TV-41, broadcasting from the CN Tower
in Toronto. For all intents and purposes, given that the station is based in Toronto, this was CIII's main transmitter and Global's flagship even before the station officially moved its licence to Toronto in 2009. This was the case with the Uxbridge transmitter as well. Starting in 2008, CIII began sending its signal to the Toronto transmitter first, since the Paris transmitter does not yet have digital capability.
Other transmitters were gradually introduced, including (launch dates in parenthesis):
CIII is not available in Thunder Bay
, but Thunder Bay Television
station CHFD
broadcasts a large amount of Global programming and uses the Global branding. TBTV's owners, the Dougall family, were concerned about Global threatening their local television monopoly (DougallMedia controls all local network television output for the Thunder Bay region and had previously lobbied the CRTC to cease CHCH-TV
's cable transmissions in the mid-1990s) and pressured the CRTC to deny Global's application to build a transmitter there. However, in 2009, Thunder Bay Television had proposed to switch the affiliation of CHFD from CTV to Global. As a result, Global programming is available in Thunder Bay, just not via CIII-TV's province-wide network of repeaters. The Global Television Network is also not available in Kenora; the local CTV
affiliate, CJBN-TV
, airs some Global programming.
Initial attempts to cover Peterborough and Kingston
from the Bancroft transmitter had yielded poor to marginal results; this signal has since been largely supplanted (for Peterborough only) by the more-powerful CIII-TV-27.
Global's CIII-TV-41 Toronto, along with CHCH Hamilton
and Global BC began over-the-air high-definition broadcasts in 2008.
In the early 1990s, additional transmitters were added to expand Global's footprint in Ontario.
In July 2009, CIII-DT-41 in Toronto began broadcasting.
After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion
, which took place on August 31, 2011, CIII-DT-41 moved from channel 65 to its current analog channel number, 41, following transition, because of the phaseout of channels 52-69.
Global transitioned its CIII-TV Paris, CIII-TV-6 Ottawa and CIII-TV-7 Midland (serving Barrie) transmitters to digital by August 31, 2011. Global has decided to transition Midland's transmitter after the deadline and by 2016. CIII-DT-41 Toronto increased coverage area to serve the Barrie area between the transition deadline and when the Midland transmitter begins broadcasting in digital.
CIII-TV-22 Stevenson (Windsor and Chatham) converted to digital August 8, 2011. The transmitter is reduced in power and viewing area has shrunk.
CIII-TV-55 Fort Erie vacated its channel frequency as of August 31, 2011. Global decided to shut down this transmitter. Coverage to the areas in Canada served by the Fort Erie transmitter are provided by CIII-DT-41 Toronto.
Global plans on transitioning its remaining transmitters to digital by 2016.
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
owned by Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...
that serves much of the population of the Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
province of Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
. It is a flagship station of the Global Television Network
Global Television Network
Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...
. From its launch in 1974 until 2009, the station's main transmitter was licensed to Paris
Paris, Ontario
Paris, Ontario is a community on the Grand River in Ontario, Canada. The town was established in 1850. In 1999, its town government was amalgamated into that of the County of Brant, Ontario, thus ending about 149 years as a separate incorporated municipality.-History:The town was first settled in...
, a small town near Brantford, but following a licence amendment in 2009, Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
is now the station's primary city of licence. Through its entire history, however, the station's main studio has always been in Toronto. Most cable television
Cable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...
systems in Ontario carry the station, normally on channel 3.
Upon launching in 1974, the station was known as the "Global Television Network
Global Television Network
Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...
", a name which reflected its then-unprecedented coverage of several Ontario markets through a network of satellite-fed transmitters. The name would be adopted nationally by the Canwest (now Shaw Media
Shaw Media
Shaw Media is the television broadcasting division of Shaw Communications. Shaw Media owns the Global Television Network, which broadcasts via 11 television stations, as well as various specialty channels including HGTV Canada, Showcase, Food Network Canada, and History Television.Despite also...
) station group in 1997, at which point CIII became known internally as "Global Ontario", but generally avoided 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
Digital on-screen graphic
A digital on-screen graphic is a watermark-like station logo that many television broadcasters overlay over a portion of the screen-area of their programs to identify the channel...
, unlike other Global stations.
History
The station was launched on January 6, 1974 under the CKGN-TV call letters, but has always been known on-air as Global. It had been hoped to be distinct from CBC and CTV by airing a number of its own Canadian-made programs. Three months later, the station was in deep financial trouble, and had cancelled many of its own programs. To survive, the network essentially became a clone of CTV, airing as much non-Canadian content as allowed (at the time, Canadian content regulations required 50 percent overall, with 60 percent in prime time). The station's financial difficulties continued until it was bailed out by two conglomerates in 1977, one based in Ontario, the other in western Canada. Several years later, both tried to buy out the other's interest, and the CRTC ended the contest by allowing the western group to take full ownership, a landmark change in Canadian broadcasting that ended the dominance of central Canada.The callsign CKGN-TV was changed to CIII-TV in January 1984, to mark the 10th anniversary of the station. The Windsor/Cottam transmitter would be an exception for a few years as it continued to be identified in CRTC documents as CKGN-TV-1, perhaps because of licensing issues with nearby Detroit broadcasters (see "Transmitters and Facilities" below). ("CKGN" was a former callsign for a television station in North Bay, Ontario
North Bay, Ontario
North Bay is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is the seat of Nipissing District, and takes its name from its position on the shore of Lake Nipissing.-History:...
from 1955 to 1962, known today as CKNY-TV
CKNY-TV
CKNY is a Canadian television station, broadcasting in North Bay, Ontario. It is an owned-and-operated station of CTV.-History:...
. The "CKGN" calls are now used by a Kapuskasing, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
radio station, CKGN-FM
CKGN-FM
CKGN-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 89.7 FM in Kapuskasing, Ontario and 94.7 FM in Smooth Rock Falls.Owned and operated by Radio communautaire KapNord cooperative, it is a non-profit community radio station for the region's franco-ontarian community.-History of the CKGN call...
.)
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. In the late 1990s, its focus turned almost exclusively toward Toronto.
CIII was originally owned by Global Communications, which was fully acquired by Izzy Asper
Izzy Asper
Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper, , Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate, was the founder of the now defunct CanWest Global Communications Corp and father to its former CEO and President Leonard Asper, former director and corporate secretary Gail Asper, as well as Executive Vice President David Asper...
in 1989. Asper's stations, including UTV
CKVU-TV
CKVU-DT is a television station based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Owned by Rogers Media , it was the second station to become part of the Citytv system in Canada.-History:CKVU's history dates back to 1975, when Western Approaches Ltd...
in Vancouver, STV (CFRE-TV
CFRE-TV
CFRE-DT is a television station which broadcasts from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is part of the Global Television Network.-History:The station was launched on September 6, 1987 by Canwest...
/CFSK-TV
CFSK-TV
CFSK-DT is a television station which broadcasts from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is part of the Global Television Network.-History:The station was launched on September 6, 1987 by Canwest...
) in Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
, CKND-TV
CKND-TV
CKND-DT is a television station that broadcasts from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is the Manitoba outlet for the Global Television Network.-History:...
in Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
, and MITV
CIHF-TV
CIHF-DT, channel 8, is a television station in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Owned by Shaw Media, it serves the Maritime provinces as an owned-and-operated station of the Global Television Network...
in the Maritimes
Maritimes
The Maritime provinces, also called the Maritimes or the Canadian Maritimes, is a region of Eastern Canada consisting of three provinces, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. On the Atlantic coast, the Maritimes are a subregion of Atlantic Canada, which also includes the...
, formed a mini-network for a number of years, which evolved into the Global that Canadians know today. All of these stations began using the "Global" brand, in addition to CIII, in 1997.
News operation
CIII-DT currently produces a total of 28 hours of local newscasts each week (with five hours on weekdays and 1½ hours on weekends).Early on, its flagship news program Global News was developed under the guidance of Bill Cunningham, a CBC News veteran, and in the beginning it was anchored by Peter Trueman
Peter Trueman
Peter Trueman, O.C. is a Canadian television and radio personality. He is best known for his work for the Global Television Network between 1974 and July 1988...
in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
and Peter Desbarats
Peter Desbarats
Peter Desbarats, OC is a Montreal, Quebec-born Canadian author, playwright and journalist. He is the former dean of journalism at the University of Western Ontario , a former commissioner in the Somalia Inquiry and a former Maclean-Hunter chair of Communications Ethics at Ryerson University in...
in Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
. In the early years it was one of the most successful and important programs the station had. Peter Trueman has noted in his memoir that the program was groundbreaking: "Our newsroom-studio combination ... served as a model for the new CHAN-TV
CHAN-TV
CHAN-DT is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. Owned by Shaw Communications as a part of its Shaw Media division, it is the West Coast flagship station of the...
facilities in Vancouver, and it is currently [1979] the inspiration for Ted Turner
Ted Turner
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television...
's new Cablenews operation in Atlanta". The CBC also looked to it for inspiration when it changed its national news format in the early 1980s. The program also pioneered the use of "regional correspondents", usually print or radio journalists, who would regularly advise the station about stories in their part of Ontario. This allowed field producers and a Global crew to target key stories of the day. "This is the main reason that much of Global's ex-urban coverage has been so effective", Trueman wrote in 1979.
During the 1980s, Global greatly expanded its news operation, with an hour-and-a-half of news starting at 5:30 p.m., plus news at noon and at 11 p.m. By the end of the 1980s, the noon news was simply called News at Noon, the 5:30 news was called First News, the 6:00 news was called The Six O'Clock Report, and the 11:00 news was called The World Tonight. Trueman left in 1988. Other anchors over the years have included Mike Anscombe
Mike Anscombe
Mike Anscombe is a Canadian broadcaster who appeared on the Global Television Network between 1974 and 1997 as a news anchor; most notably as one of the "Three Nice Guys" when he co-anchored Global's noon newscast with John Dawe and Bob McAdorey. He is a former host of CBC Sports Hockey Night in...
, Beverly Thomson
Beverly Thomson
Beverly Thomson is a Canadian journalist and co-host of Canada AM, CTV's national morning show. In 2006, she received the Gemini Humanitarian Award....
, John Dawe, Jane Gilbert, Peter Kent
Peter Kent
Peter Kent, PC, MP is a Conservative member of parliament for the riding of Thornhill, and the current Minister of the Environment in the 28th Canadian Ministry.Previously, he was Deputy Editor of Global Television, a Canadian TV network...
, Loretta Sullivan, Bob McAdorey
Bob McAdorey
Robert Joseph McAdorey was a Canadian television and radio broadcaster.Robert McAdorey was born and raised in Niagara Falls. In the 1960s, McAdorey was one of Canada's most influential radio DJs, as the afternoon 1300-1600 and later drivetime, weekdays 1600-1900 host on 1050 CHUM...
, Thalia Assuras
Thalia Assuras
- External links :* , an October 1998 article from a UWO website...
, and Anne-Marie Mediwake
Anne-Marie Mediwake
Anne Marie Abeyesinghe Mediwake is a Canadian television news anchor. Formerly co-anchor of Global Toronto's 6 p.m. News Hour, she was hired in September 2009 by the CBC News Network...
.
In keeping with the avoidance of regional branding noted above, CIII, up until recently used "Global News", as opposed to a regional name such as "Global Ontario", as its main news brand. In the fall of 2009, however, for news programming, it began using "Global Toronto", since its newscasts focus primarily on that city. Individual newscasts are titled News Hour, News Final, etc. Global Toronto doesn't have its own entertainment or sports reporters. Entertainment news is provided by Entertainment Tonight Canada
Entertainment Tonight Canada
Entertainment Tonight Canada is a daily entertainment newsmagazine show that airs primetime on Global Television in Canada. Encore presentations can also be found on the Slice and TVtropolis channels, both of which are part of the Shaw Media network...
and sports news is provided by the all sports channel The Score Television Network.
From 1994 to 2001, CIII also produced First National, which was anchored by Peter Kent
Peter Kent
Peter Kent, PC, MP is a Conservative member of parliament for the riding of Thornhill, and the current Minister of the Environment in the 28th Canadian Ministry.Previously, he was Deputy Editor of Global Television, a Canadian TV network...
and seen at 6:30 p.m. weeknights. In 2001, the program was replaced by Canada Tonight
Canada Tonight
Canada Tonight was a Canadian television newscast which aired on stations owned by Western International Communications from 1993 to 2001. It was produced out of the studio of CHAN-TV in Burnaby, British Columbia. There were two versions of the newscast; the one seen outside BC was anchored by...
, which in turn was replaced that fall with Global National
Global National
Global National is the national newscast of Canada's Global Television Network. Dawna Friesen anchors the program's weekday edition from the Global BC studios; Robin Gill currently anchors the weekend edition...
, anchored by Kevin Newman
Kevin Newman (Canadian journalist)
Kevin Newman is a Canadian journalist and news anchor. From 2001 to 2010, he was the anchor and executive editor of Global National, and hosted Global's weekly newsmagazine series Global Currents. In August 2011 he became the co-host of CTV's Question Period..- Life and career :Newman was born in...
, it originated from Global BC
CHAN-TV
CHAN-DT is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. Owned by Shaw Communications as a part of its Shaw Media division, it is the West Coast flagship station of the...
in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
before moving to a dedicated studio in Ottawa
Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
in February 2008. From February to August 2009, CIII simulcast CHCH-TV
CHCH-TV
CHCH-DT, channel 11, is a television station originating in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with transmitters located throughout Ontario. CHCH currently operates as an independent station, having previously served as a CBC Television affiliate, and more recently as the flagship station of the...
's Morning Live, originating in Hamilton, Ont.
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
, from 7:00 AM to 9:00 a.m. CIII previously produced its own morning show called Global News Morning, but dropped it after low ratings and as a cost-cutting measure. The Noon News Hour was cancelled as well. The CHCH simulcast was later dropped after Canwest sold the Hamilton station to Channel Zero
Channel Zero Inc.
Channel Zero is an independent Canadian broadcasting and media group, which holds assets in television broadcasting and film distribution.The company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-Ownership structure:...
, with CIII now airing second-run lifestyle programming in the morning timeslot. CIII currently reruns the previous night's News Hour Final.
On October 11, 2011 CIII-TV launched a three-hour morning newscast titled The Morning Show
The Morning Show (Canadian TV series)
The Morning Show is a Canadian breakfast television show airing on Global Television Network's Toronto station . The program is hosted by Liza Fromer and Dave Gerry, with Kris Reyes as news anchor, Daru Dhillon as weather presenter, and Kimberly Fowler as airborne traffic reporter...
. Hosted by Liza Fromer and Dave Gerry (both former hosts of Citytv's Breakfast Television
Breakfast Television
Breakfast Television is a Canadian morning news and entertainment program which airs on the Citytv stations . Each station produces its own local edition of Breakfast Television....
programme in Toronto and Vancouver, respectively), production of the show takes place in a new storefront studio at Shaw Media's Bloor Street building in Downtown Toronto; Kris Reyes serves as the news anchor of the show, and Daru Dhillon provides weather forecasts. The new programme runs from 6 to 9 a.m. ET
Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time...
. The announcement also coincided with the announcements of new local morning shows for other Global stations across Canada. The station also moved its early-evening newscast, News Hour, a half-hour earlier to 5:30 p.m. to coincide with a shift of Global National to the 6:30 p.m. slot, joining Montreal's CKMI-DT and Halifax's CIHF-DT as the only Global stations to carry the network's national newscast in that timeslot.
Newscast titles
- Global NewsGlobal NewsGlobal News is the news and current affairs division of Global Television Network in Canada, overseeing all local and national news programming on the network's eleven owned-and-operated stations .-National programs:...
(1974–present) - The Trueman Report (11 p.m. newscast; 1979–1988)
- First News (5:30 p.m. newscast; early 1980s–1987)
News team
Anchors- Liza Fromer - The Morning Show (weekday mornings at 6 a.m.)
- Dave Gerry - The Morning Show (weekday mornings at 6 a.m.)
- Carolyn MacKenzie - Global Evening News and News Final (weekends at 6 and 11 p.m.)
- Anne MroczkowskiAnne MroczkowskiAnne Mroczkowski is a Canadian TV reporter and news anchor. She is currently co-anchor of Global News Hour, along with Leslie Roberts, a job she started on June 1, 2010....
- News Hour (weeknights at 5:30 p.m.) - Kris Reyes - The Morning Show (weekday mornings at 6 a.m.)
- Leslie RobertsLeslie RobertsLeslie Roberts is a Canadian journalist and TV personality, primarily from his position as the executive editor and anchor for Global Ontario's News Hour from 5:30-6:30 p.m. He also anchors the GTA's only one hour local news at 11pm. He was also the host and successor to Bill Carroll's 10 a.m. -...
- News Hour and News Hour Final (weeknights at 5:30 and 11 p.m.)
Local program hosts
- Susan HaySusan HaySusan Hay is a weather anchor for Global Toronto. She has been with Global since May 1989 and was previously with the CTV television network affiliate CICI in Sudbury, Ontario. Hay has also donated to many charities as well as hosts the televised Toronto Santa Claus Parade...
- host of Making A Difference; also fill-in anchor - Leslie Roberts - host of Focus Ontario
Weather team
- Anthony Farnell - lead meteorologist; News Hour and News Hour Final (weeknights at 5:30 and 11 p.m.)
- Bill Coulter (CMOS-endorsed weathercaster) - meteorologist; Global Evening News and NewsFinal (weekends at 6 and 11 p.m, moving to CP24 as of December 5, 2011,)
- Daru Dhillon - weather and traffic anchor; The Morning Show (weekday mornings at 6 a.m.)
- Debbie Neufert - substitute weather anchor
- Jaclyn Whittal - weather anchor Global Evening News and News Final (weekends at 6 and 11 p.m,)
Traffic
- Kimberly Fowler - airborne traffic reporter
Reporters
- Alan Carter - Queen's Park Bureau Chief
- Marianne Dimain
- Rob Leth
- Rob Malcolm
- Carey Marsden
- Mark McAllister
- Catherine McDonald - crime specialist
- Lama Nicolas
- Sean O'Shea - Consumer SOS investigative reporter
- Jennifer Palisoc
- Beatrice Politi - family health reporter
- Jackson ProskowJackson ProskowJackson Proskow is a Canadian journalist, currently working for the Global Television Network in Toronto, Canada at television station CIII-TV....
- municipal affairs reporter - Minna Rhee
- Antony Robart
- Ryan Sang
- Terese Sears
- David Shum
- Allison Vuchnich - Global special features reporter, also reporting for Global NationalGlobal NationalGlobal National is the national newscast of Canada's Global Television Network. Dawna Friesen anchors the program's weekday edition from the Global BC studios; Robin Gill currently anchors the weekend edition...
and 16x9 - The Bigger Picture (formerly health reporter) - Laura Zilke
Transmitters
| Station | City of licence | Channel Channel (broadcasting) In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies assigned by a government for the operation of a particular radio station, television station or television channel. In common usage, the term also may be used to refer to the station operating on a particular frequency.-See also:*Broadcast... |
ERP Effective radiated power In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains... |
HAAT Height above average terrain Height above average terrain is used extensively in FM radio and television, as it is actually much more important than effective radiated power in determining the range of broadcasts... |
Transmitter Coordinates |
| CIII-DT | Paris Paris, Ontario Paris, Ontario is a community on the Grand River in Ontario, Canada. The town was established in 1850. In 1999, its town government was amalgamated into that of the County of Brant, Ontario, thus ending about 149 years as a separate incorporated municipality.-History:The town was first settled in... |
6 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) Virtual Virtual channel In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels.... : 6.1 (PSIP Program and System Information Protocol The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch... ) |
4 kW | 311.3 m | 43°15′41"N 80°26′41"W |
| CIII-TV-2 | Bancroft Bancroft, Ontario Bancroft is a town located on the York River in Hastings County in the Canadian province of Ontario.- History :In 1853 the first pioneer family settled in the area, and over the next 15 years the settlement grew quickly, as another 88 families followed... |
2 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
100 kW | 390 m | 45°3′34"N 77°11′59"W |
| CIII-TV-4 | Owen Sound | 4 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
37 kW | 130.8 m | 44°26′45"N 80°59′59"W |
| CIII-DT-6 | Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario... |
6 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) Virtual Virtual channel In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels.... : 6.1 (PSIP Program and System Information Protocol The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch... ) |
3.3 kW | 261.3 m | 45°30′9"N 75°50′59"W |
| CIII-DT-7 | Midland Midland, Ontario Midland is a town located on Georgian Bay in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.Situated at the southern end of Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands, Midland is the economic centre of the region, with a 125-bed hospital and a local airport. It is the main town of the southern Georgian Bay area... |
7 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) Virtual Virtual channel In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels.... : 7.1 (PSIP Program and System Information Protocol The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch... ) |
6.75 kW | 346.7 m | 44°58′14"N 79°46′57"W |
| CIII-TV-12 | Sault Ste. Marie Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Sault Ste. Marie is a city on the St. Marys River in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. It is the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay, with a population of 74,948. The community was founded as a French religious mission: Sault either means "jump" or "rapids" in... |
12 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
5 kW | 135.1 m | 46°35′50"N 84°16′53"W |
| CIII-TV-13 | Timmins Timmins Timmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada on the Mattagami River. At the time of the Canada 2006 Census, Timmins' population was 42,997... |
13 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
25 kW | 176.9 m | 48°28′12"N 81°17′49"W |
| CIII-DT-22 | Stevenson | 22 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) Virtual Virtual channel In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels.... : 22.1 (PSIP Program and System Information Protocol The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch... ) |
49 kW | 110 m | 42°3′41"N 82°29′5"W |
| CIII-TV-27 | Peterborough Peterborough, Ontario Peterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres northeast of Toronto. The population of the City of Peterborough was 74,898 as of the 2006 census, while the census metropolitan area has a population of 121,428 as of a 2009 estimate. It presently ranks... |
27 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
2535 kW | 278.5 m | 44°4′14"N 78°8′35"W |
| CIII-TV-29 | Sarnia Sarnia, Ontario Sarnia is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada . It is the largest city on Lake Huron and is located where the upper Great Lakes empty into the St. Clair River.... -Oil Springs Oil Springs, Ontario Oil Springs is a village in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada, located along Former Provincial Highway 21 south of Oil City. The village, an enclave within Enniskillen Township, is home to the Oil Museum of Canada.... |
29 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
370 kW | 208.8 m | 42°43′21"N 82°9′59"W |
| CIII-DT-41 | Toronto Toronto Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from... |
41 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) Virtual Virtual channel In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels.... : 41.1 (PSIP Program and System Information Protocol The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch... ) |
100 kW | 503.0 m | 43°38′33"N 79°23′14"W |
| CFGC-TV | Sudbury | 11 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
25 kW | 137 m | 46°30′19"N 80°57′33"W |
| CFGC-TV-2 | North Bay North Bay, Ontario North Bay is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is the seat of Nipissing District, and takes its name from its position on the shore of Lake Nipissing.-History:... |
2 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
3.4 kW | 90.2 m | 46°18′10"N 79°24′39"W |
Studios and offices are located at 81 Barber Greene Road in the Don Mills
Don Mills
Don Mills is a mixed-use neighbourhood in the North York district of Toronto, Canada. It was developed to be a self-supporting "new town" and was at the time located outside of Toronto proper. Consisting of residential, commercial and industrial sub-districts, it was planned and developed by...
section of Toronto, the same address from which broadcasts began in 1974. Secondary studio and news bureau
News bureau
A News bureau is an office for gathering or distributing news. Similar terms are used for specialized bureaus, often to indicate geographic location or scope of coverage: a ‘Tokyo bureau’ refers to a given news operation's office in Tokyo; foreign bureau is a generic term for a news office set up...
facilities are located at the National Press Centre in Ottawa.
A series of rebroadcast transmitters relay the CIII signal to much of Ontario. Most of these use the call sign CIII followed by a number to denote their status as rebroadcasters, except in Sudbury and North Bay
North Bay, Ontario
North Bay is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is the seat of Nipissing District, and takes its name from its position on the shore of Lake Nipissing.-History:...
where the CFGC call sign is assigned. The most likely explanation for using CFGC is that the close resemblance between the number 1 and the letter I would make CIII-TV-11 an undesirable call sign for Sudbury, while North Bay couldn't use CIII-TV-2 as that call sign is already in use in Bancroft
Bancroft, Ontario
Bancroft is a town located on the York River in Hastings County in the Canadian province of Ontario.- History :In 1853 the first pioneer family settled in the area, and over the next 15 years the settlement grew quickly, as another 88 families followed...
.
These six transmitters formed the original 1974 service:
- CKGN-TV Channel 6 from ParisParis, OntarioParis, Ontario is a community on the Grand River in Ontario, Canada. The town was established in 1850. In 1999, its town government was amalgamated into that of the County of Brant, Ontario, thus ending about 149 years as a separate incorporated municipality.-History:The town was first settled in...
(serving HamiltonHamilton, OntarioHamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
and Brantford) - CKGN-TV-1 Channel 22 from CottamCottam, OntarioCottam is a small unincorporated community within the town of Kingsville, Ontario in Canada. The community's population is around 300, and has a branch of the Essex County Library and a United Church.- Neighborhoods :...
(near WindsorWindsor, OntarioWindsor is the southernmost city in Canada and is located in Southwestern Ontario at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City – Windsor Corridor. It is within Essex County, Ontario, although administratively separated from the county government. Separated by the Detroit River, Windsor...
; also serving Detroit, MichiganDetroit, MichiganDetroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
) - CKGN-TV-2 Channel 2 from BancroftBancroft, OntarioBancroft is a town located on the York River in Hastings County in the Canadian province of Ontario.- History :In 1853 the first pioneer family settled in the area, and over the next 15 years the settlement grew quickly, as another 88 families followed...
(serving BellevilleBelleville, OntarioBelleville is a city located at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte in Southern Ontario, Canada, in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. It is the seat of Hastings County, but is politically independent of it. and the centre of the Bay of Quinte Region...
) - CKGN-TV-6 Channel 6 from Hull, QuebecHull, QuebecHull is the central and oldest part of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. It is located on the west bank of the Gatineau River and the north shore of the Ottawa River, directly opposite Ottawa. As part of the Canadian National Capital Region, it contains offices for twenty thousand...
(Camp FortuneGatineau HillsThe Gatineau Hills are a geological formation in Canada that makes up part of the southern tip of the Canadian Shield, and acts as the northern shoulder of the Ottawa Valley...
site, near OttawaOttawaOttawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...
) - CKGN-TV-22 Channel 22 from UxbridgeUxbridge, OntarioUxbridge is a township in south-central Ontario, Canada, in the Regional Municipality of Durham, in the Greater Toronto Area.The main centre in the township is the namesake community of Uxbridge...
(near Toronto; the most powerful transmitter in Canada at the time) - CKGN-TV-29 Channel 29 from Oil SpringsOil Springs, OntarioOil Springs is a village in Lambton County, Ontario, Canada, located along Former Provincial Highway 21 south of Oil City. The village, an enclave within Enniskillen Township, is home to the Oil Museum of Canada....
(near SarniaSarnia, OntarioSarnia is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada . It is the largest city on Lake Huron and is located where the upper Great Lakes empty into the St. Clair River....
)
The Cottam transmitter was frequently blank during the airing of prime-time American imports as the signal reached into Detroit; Windsor is reckoned as part of the Detroit market for purposes of programming rights. This also affected CBC's station in Windsor, CBET
CBET
CBET, channel 9, is the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's owned-and-operated television station in Windsor, Ontario. The station's signal also covers the Detroit, Michigan area across the international border in the United States, and is counted as a Detroit station for the purposes of...
, which frequently had to air alternative programs. For more information on this, see Media in Windsor, Ontario
Media in Windsor, Ontario
Windsor, Ontario is the fourth-largest border city media market in Canada, after Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. It is also the only one of those four markets to exist within the shadow of a larger American media market – whereas Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal are all the dominant media markets...
and Media in Detroit
Media in Detroit
As the world's traditional automotive center, Detroit, Michigan is an important source for business news. The Detroit media are active in the community through such efforts as the Detroit Free Press high school journalism program and the Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund of Detroit...
.
In 1986, the CRTC approved the relocation of the Windsor-area transmitter from Cottam to Stevenson. This transmitter (then CIII-TV-1) was silent for several years following a transmitter fire in the late 1970s. Some time after this, the CIII-TV-22 call letters from the now-disused Uxbridge transmitter were re-assigned to the Stevenson transmitter. The transmitter is located southwest of Wheatley
Wheatley, Ontario
Wheatley is a community in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, within the municipality of Chatham-Kent. It lies about east of Leamington. Nearby parks include Two Creeks Conservation Area, which has 15 km of hiking and bicycling paths, Kopegaron Woods Conservation Area, Hillman Marsh Conservation...
, between Wheatley and Leamington, but its signal is aimed northeast (towards Chatham-Kent
Chatham-Kent, Ontario
Chatham–Kent is a unitary authority in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Mostly rural, its centres of population are Blenheim, Chatham, Dresden, Ridgetown, Tilbury and Wallaceburg. Modern Chatham–Kent was created in 1998 by the merger of Kent County and its municipalities.- History :The former city of...
), and barely reaches Windsor and Detroit—presumably to protect the Detroit stations.
CIII-TV-22 (the transmitter in Uxbridge) had an effective radiated power of 5 MW, making it Canada's most-powerful transmitter.
The Uxbridge transmitter was eliminated in 1988, replaced by CIII-TV-41, broadcasting from the CN Tower
CN Tower
The CN Tower is a communications and observation tower in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Standing tall, it was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years until the completion of the Burj...
in Toronto. For all intents and purposes, given that the station is based in Toronto, this was CIII's main transmitter and Global's flagship even before the station officially moved its licence to Toronto in 2009. This was the case with the Uxbridge transmitter as well. Starting in 2008, CIII began sending its signal to the Toronto transmitter first, since the Paris transmitter does not yet have digital capability.
Other transmitters were gradually introduced, including (launch dates in parenthesis):
- CIII-TV-7 Channel 7 from MidlandMidland, OntarioMidland is a town located on Georgian Bay in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.Situated at the southern end of Georgian Bay's 30,000 Islands, Midland is the economic centre of the region, with a 125-bed hospital and a local airport. It is the main town of the southern Georgian Bay area...
(November 1987, serving BarrieBarrieBarrie may refer to:* Barrie, city in Ontario, Canada* Barrie , Canadian federal electoral district* Barrie , provincial electoral district* Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford, former Canadian electoral district...
) - CIII-TV-4 Channel 4 from Owen Sound (June 1988)
- CIII-TV-27 Channel 27 from PeterboroughPeterborough, OntarioPeterborough is a city on the Otonabee River in southern Ontario, Canada, 125 kilometres northeast of Toronto. The population of the City of Peterborough was 74,898 as of the 2006 census, while the census metropolitan area has a population of 121,428 as of a 2009 estimate. It presently ranks...
(October 1988) - CFGC-TV Channel 11 from Sudbury (December 1992)
- CFGC-TV-2 Channel 2 from North BayNorth Bay, OntarioNorth Bay is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is the seat of Nipissing District, and takes its name from its position on the shore of Lake Nipissing.-History:...
(December 1992) - CIII-TV-13 Channel 13 from TimminsTimminsTimmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada on the Mattagami River. At the time of the Canada 2006 Census, Timmins' population was 42,997...
(December 1992) - CIII-TV-12 Channel 12 from Sault Ste. MarieSault Ste. Marie, OntarioSault Ste. Marie is a city on the St. Marys River in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. It is the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Sudbury and Thunder Bay, with a population of 74,948. The community was founded as a French religious mission: Sault either means "jump" or "rapids" in...
(December 1992) - CIII-TV-55 Channel 55 from Fort ErieFort Erie, OntarioFort Erie is a town on the Niagara River in the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada. It is located directly across the river from Buffalo, New York....
(early 1993, serving Niagara FallsNiagara Falls, OntarioNiagara Falls is a Canadian city on the Niagara River in the Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario. The municipality was incorporated on June 12, 1903...
and the southern Niagara Region; signal also reaches Buffalo, New YorkBuffalo, New YorkBuffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...
)
CIII is not available in Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay
-In Canada:Thunder Bay is the name of three places in the province of Ontario, Canada along Lake Superior:*Thunder Bay District, Ontario, a district in Northwestern Ontario*Thunder Bay, a city in Thunder Bay District*Thunder Bay, Unorganized, Ontario...
, but Thunder Bay Television
Thunder Bay Television
Dougall Media is a Canadian media company, which has several television, radio and publishing holdings in Northwestern Ontario.-Television:Thunder Bay Television is the name under which CKPR, a CBC affiliate in Thunder Bay, Ontario operates. It is co-owned with CHFD, a Global affiliate in the same...
station CHFD
CHFD-TV
CHFD-DT, channel 4 , is a television station in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada owned by Dougall Media. It also has a repeater in Armstrong and is available on the Bell TV and Shaw Direct satellite services...
broadcasts a large amount of Global programming and uses the Global branding. TBTV's owners, the Dougall family, were concerned about Global threatening their local television monopoly (DougallMedia controls all local network television output for the Thunder Bay region and had previously lobbied the CRTC to cease CHCH-TV
CHCH-TV
CHCH-DT, channel 11, is a television station originating in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with transmitters located throughout Ontario. CHCH currently operates as an independent station, having previously served as a CBC Television affiliate, and more recently as the flagship station of the...
's cable transmissions in the mid-1990s) and pressured the CRTC to deny Global's application to build a transmitter there. However, in 2009, Thunder Bay Television had proposed to switch the affiliation of CHFD from CTV to Global. As a result, Global programming is available in Thunder Bay, just not via CIII-TV's province-wide network of repeaters. The Global Television Network is also not available in Kenora; the local CTV
CTV television network
CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...
affiliate, CJBN-TV
CJBN-TV
CJBN-TV, channel 13, is a television station based in Kenora, Ontario, Canada and affiliated with the CTV network. It can also be seen on cable TV channel 4 in the Kenora area, as well as on the Bell TV and Shaw Direct satellite services. The station adopted the CJTV brand in the early 2000s, but...
, airs some Global programming.
Initial attempts to cover Peterborough and Kingston
Kingston, Ontario
Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...
from the Bancroft transmitter had yielded poor to marginal results; this signal has since been largely supplanted (for Peterborough only) by the more-powerful CIII-TV-27.
Global's CIII-TV-41 Toronto, along with CHCH Hamilton
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...
and Global BC began over-the-air high-definition broadcasts in 2008.
In the early 1990s, additional transmitters were added to expand Global's footprint in Ontario.
Digital programming
| Digital Channel | Virtual Channel | Programming |
|---|---|---|
| 41 | 41.1 | main CIII-TV-41 programming / Global |
In July 2009, CIII-DT-41 in Toronto began broadcasting.
After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion
Digital television in Canada
Digital television in Canada is transmitted using the ATSC standards developed for and in use in the United States. Because Canada and the U.S...
, which took place on August 31, 2011, CIII-DT-41 moved from channel 65 to its current analog channel number, 41, following transition, because of the phaseout of channels 52-69.
Global transitioned its CIII-TV Paris, CIII-TV-6 Ottawa and CIII-TV-7 Midland (serving Barrie) transmitters to digital by August 31, 2011. Global has decided to transition Midland's transmitter after the deadline and by 2016. CIII-DT-41 Toronto increased coverage area to serve the Barrie area between the transition deadline and when the Midland transmitter begins broadcasting in digital.
CIII-TV-22 Stevenson (Windsor and Chatham) converted to digital August 8, 2011. The transmitter is reduced in power and viewing area has shrunk.
CIII-TV-55 Fort Erie vacated its channel frequency as of August 31, 2011. Global decided to shut down this transmitter. Coverage to the areas in Canada served by the Fort Erie transmitter are provided by CIII-DT-41 Toronto.
Global plans on transitioning its remaining transmitters to digital by 2016.
Logos
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External links
- Global Toronto
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CIII-TV History (Callsign used in Sudbury and North Bay)