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The Morning News is the name of local morning newscasts airing on Global Television Network
's owned-and-operated station
s (O&Os) in British Columbia
, Calgary
and Edmonton
, with each station producing its own edition of the program.
As part of Shaw Communications
' benefit package for acquiring Global and other specialty channels from the bankrupt Canwest, Global O&Os in Toronto
, Winnipeg
, Regina
, Saskatoon
and the Maritimes
will also introduce morning news programs over the second half of 2011. The package also includes reintroducing a local morning show at Global Montreal, although its launch date is currently unknown.
on weekdays, 7AM to 10AM PT on Saturday mornings, and 8AM to 10AM PT on Sunday mornings. It is simulcast on Global Okanagan
.
on weekdays and 8AM to 10AM MT on Saturday mornings. It is simulcast on Global Lethbridge.
on weekdays. The show is produced from studios located at the Shaw Media
Building at 121 Bloor St. in Toronto.
. The program was renamed Morning News in 2006 in conjunction with Global's network-wide rebranding exercise.
The newscast was cancelled in January 2009 due to low ratings, and was replaced by a simulcast of then-sister station CHCH-TV
's more popular Morning Live show, originating in Hamilton
, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. The CHCH simulcast was dropped in August 2009 after Canwest sold the Hamilton station to Channel Zero
; since then, Global Toronto had aired second-run lifestyle programming in the morning timeslot.
On June 1, 2011, Shaw Communications announced that it would relaunch a morning newscast on Global Toronto in the fall of 2011 under the title The Morning Show, instead of using the Morning News moniker. Kris Reyes, Liza Fromer, Dave Gerry and Daru Dhillon were named as the anchors for the three-hour long newscast. The show debuted on October 11, 2011.
aired a live two and a half hour (and subsequently three) hour morning magazine program called This Morning Live. It was aired in place of cartoons that aired on most Global stations in the morning because Quebec provincial law requires children's programming to be shown commercial-free over the air. A side benefit of this was that it added enough Canadian content
to the station's schedule that it could air American talk shows in the afternoon.
The cancellation of This Morning Live was announced in late 2007 and the last program was broadcast on February 27, 2008. To partially make up for the loss of locally produced broadcast hours, the station brought back News Final, which was cancelled in June 2006 due to low ratings.
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...
's owned-and-operated station
Owned-and-operated station
In the broadcasting industry , an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated...
s (O&Os) in British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
and Edmonton
Edmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...
, with each station producing its own edition of the program.
As part of 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...
' benefit package for acquiring Global and other specialty channels from the bankrupt Canwest, Global O&Os 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...
, 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...
, Regina
Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina is the capital city of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The city is the second-largest in the province and a cultural and commercial centre for southern Saskatchewan. It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox...
, Saskatoon
Saskatoon
Saskatoon is a city in central Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. Residents of the city of Saskatoon are called Saskatonians. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Corman Park No. 344....
and 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...
will also introduce morning news programs over the second half of 2011. The package also includes reintroducing a local morning show at Global Montreal, although its launch date is currently unknown.
Global BC
The Morning News on Global BC airs at 5:30AM to 9AM PTPacific Time Zone
The Pacific Time Zone observes standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time . The clock time in this zone is based on the mean solar time of the 120th meridian west of the Greenwich Observatory. During daylight saving time, its time offset is UTC-7.In the United States...
on weekdays, 7AM to 10AM PT on Saturday mornings, and 8AM to 10AM PT on Sunday mornings. It is simulcast on Global Okanagan
CHBC-TV
CHBC-TV is a television station in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada owned by Shaw Media. It transmits on channel 2, and cable channel 4, and broadcasts on 18 relay stations....
.
Personalities
- Steve Darling - co-anchor
- Sophie Lui - co-anchor
- Mark Madryga - weekday meteorologist
- Wesla Wong - traffic and community events reporter; substitute weather presenter
- Lynn Collier - weekend anchor
- Kristi Gordon - weekend meteorologist
- Jay Janower - weekend sports
- Kaitlyn Herbst - helicopter traffic reporter
Global Calgary
The Morning News on Global Calgary airs at 5:30AM to 9AM MTMountain Time Zone
The Mountain Time Zone of North America keeps time by subtracting seven hours from Coordinated Universal Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time, during the shortest days of autumn and winter , and by subtracting six hours during daylight saving time in the spring, summer, and early autumn...
on weekdays and 8AM to 10AM MT on Saturday mornings. It is simulcast on Global Lethbridge.
Presenters
- News
- Scott Fee (weekdays)
- Suzanne Fox (weekdays, on maternity leave)
- Amber Schinkel (weekdays, fill-in for Suzanne Fox)
- Reid Fiest (weekends)
- Bindu Suri (weekends)
- On-location reporters
- Cara Fullerton (weekdays, also relief presenter)
- Sarah Offin (weekends)
- Weather
- Jordan Witzel (meteorologist, weekdays)
- Gemma Lyn (weekends)
- Traffic
- Leslie Horton (weekdays)
- Global 1 Helicopter
- Pauline Rees (weekdays)
- Katrina Green (weekends)
Global Edmonton
The Morning News on Global Edmonton airs at 5:30AM to 9AM MT on weekdays and 8AM to 10AM MT on Saturday mornings. It is the most watched morning show in Edmonton, consistently beating the nearest competition by a margin of 6 to 1.Personalities
- Jennifer Crosby - co-anchor, Morning News/Noon News Hour
- Shaye Ganam - co-anchor, Morning News/Noon News Hour
- Shane Jones - anchor, Saturday/Sunday Morning News (Saturdays @ 7am and Sundays @ 8am)
- Mike Sobel - Morning weather specialist
- Jackie Jeffery - Global 1 airborne traffic reporter
- Daintre Christensen - traffic, Weekday Mornings
Global Regina
The Morning News will air on Global Regina weekdays from 6am to 9am, beginning in fall 2011.Personalities
- Heather Anderson - Anchor
- Rustie Dean - Weather/Traffic
- Scott Mclean - Live Reporter
Global Saskatoon
The Morning News will air on Global Saskatoon weekdays from 6am to 9am, beginning on December 5, 2011Personalities
- Lisa Dutton - Anchor
- Warren Dean - Weather/Traffic Anchor
- Sherri Clark - Live Reporter
Global Toronto
Global Toronto airs The Morning Show from 6AM to 9AM ETEastern 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...
on weekdays. The show is produced from studios located at the 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...
Building at 121 Bloor St. in Toronto.
Personalities
- Liza Fromer - host
- Dave Gerry - host
- Kris Reyes - news anchor
- Daru Dhillon - weather and traffic anchor
- Kimberly Fowler - Global 1 airborne traffic reporter
Former personalities
- Alan Carter – anchor, 2003–2009; now managing editor at CIII
- Robin GillRobin GillRobin Gill is a Canadian journalist. She is currently the weekend anchor for Global National and B.C. correspondent. Robin has also worked for the CBC and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and from BCIT she earned a diploma in broadcast...
- anchor, 2008–2009; now with 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... - Zuraidah Alman - anchor, 2007–2008; now with CTV Toronto
- Christine Crosbie – anchor, 2003–2006; now in media relations at the Ontario Science CentreOntario Science CentreOntario Science Centre is a science museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, near the Don Valley Parkway about northeast of downtown on Don Mills Road just south of Eglinton Avenue East...
- Anne-Marie MediwakeAnne-Marie MediwakeAnne 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...
- anchor, 2006–2007; later promoted to Global News Hour Toronto; now with CBC News Network and CBC Toronto - Minna Rhee – news reporter; now anchor CP24
- David Steinhard – business reporter; deceased (2008)
- Anwar Knight - weather presenter, 2003–2006; now with CTV Toronto
- Bill Coulter - weather presenter, 2006–2009; now with Global News Weekends Toronto 6pm and 11pm EST time.
- Pooja Handa – traffic presenter; now traffic specialist and anchor with CP24
- Antony Robart - news reporter / co-anchor; still with Global Toronto
History
The station debuted a morning news program on July 14, 2003 under the title Global News Morning; it was broadcast weekdays 6AM to 9AM ETEastern 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 program was renamed Morning News in 2006 in conjunction with Global's network-wide rebranding exercise.
The newscast was cancelled in January 2009 due to low ratings, and was replaced by a simulcast of then-sister station 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 more popular Morning Live show, originating in 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...
, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. The CHCH simulcast was dropped in August 2009 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:...
; since then, Global Toronto had aired second-run lifestyle programming in the morning timeslot.
On June 1, 2011, Shaw Communications announced that it would relaunch a morning newscast on Global Toronto in the fall of 2011 under the title The Morning Show, instead of using the Morning News moniker. Kris Reyes, Liza Fromer, Dave Gerry and Daru Dhillon were named as the anchors for the three-hour long newscast. The show debuted on October 11, 2011.
History
After being rebranded as Global, Global MontrealCKMI-TV
CKMI-DT-1 is the Global Television Network owned-and-operated station in Quebec.Originally a privately owned CBC Television affiliate in Quebec City, the station moved most of its operations to Montreal in 1997 after launching a rebroadcaster there and becoming a Global affiliate as Global Quebec...
aired a live two and a half hour (and subsequently three) hour morning magazine program called This Morning Live. It was aired in place of cartoons that aired on most Global stations in the morning because Quebec provincial law requires children's programming to be shown commercial-free over the air. A side benefit of this was that it added enough Canadian content
Canadian content
Canadian content refers to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission requirements that radio and television broadcasters must air a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from...
to the station's schedule that it could air American talk shows in the afternoon.
The cancellation of This Morning Live was announced in late 2007 and the last program was broadcast on February 27, 2008. To partially make up for the loss of locally produced broadcast hours, the station brought back News Final, which was cancelled in June 2006 due to low ratings.
See also
- 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:...
- Rival morning programs include:
- Canada AMCanada AMCanada AM is a Canadian breakfast television news show, which has aired on the CTV Television Network since 1972. It is currently hosted by Beverly Thomson and Seamus O'Regan, with Marci Ien reporting from the headline news desk and Jeff Hutcheson presenting the weather forecast and sports...
on CTV - CTV Morning LiveCTV Morning LiveCTV Morning Live is the name of the local morning newscasts airing on CTV's owned-and-operated stations in Western Canada, specifically, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Regina as well as on CTV Two stations in Ottawa and Atlantic Canada...
on select CTV and CTV Two local stations - Breakfast TelevisionBreakfast TelevisionBreakfast 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....
on Citytv in Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver - CBC News: MorningCBC News: MorningCBC News: Morning was a Canadian breakfast television show which aired live on CBC Television and CBC Newsworld from 6-10 a.m. ET . It was not available over-the-air in the Atlantic and Newfoundland Time Zones...
on CBC
- Canada AM