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The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global, or occasionally Global TV) is a privately owned Canadian English-language terrestrial television network. It is currently Canada's second most-watched private terrestrial television network after CTV, and has fifteen owned-and-operated stations throughout the country. Global is owned by Corus Entertainment — the media holdings of JR Shaw and other members of his family.
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Type | Terrestrial television network |
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Country | Canada |
Availability | National, northern U.S. (terrestrial), parts of U.S. and Bermuda (via pay television) |
Owner | Corus Entertainment |
Key people | Doug Murphy (President and CEO of Corus Entertainment) Troy Reeb (Vice President of Broadcast Networks) |
Launch date | January 6, 1974 (launch of CKGN-TV; now CIII-DT) 1990 (as the CanWest Global System) August 18, 1997 (national launch of Global brand) |
Former names | CanWest Global System (used in the 1990s on non-Global branded Canwest stations) |
Sister channels | Global News: BC 1 Slice Food Network Showcase HGTV History DIY Network |
Official website | Global Television Network |
Global has its origins in a regional television station of the same name, serving Southern Ontario, which launched in 1974. The Ontario station was soon purchased by the now-defunct CanWest Global Communications, and that company gradually expanded its national reach in the subsequent decades through both acquisitions and new station launches, building up a quasi-network of independent stations, known as the CanWest Global System, until the stations were unified under the Ontario station's branding in 1997.