Global Television Network

Global Television Network

Type	Terrestrial television network
Country	Canada
Broadcast area	Canada parts of the northern United States via cable or antenna, depending on location
Affiliates	See § Global stations
Headquarters	Corus Quay, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV
Ownership
Owner	Corus Entertainment
Key people	Jennifer Abrams (senior vice president, programming and platform, Corus Entertainment)
History
Launched	January 6, 1974; 50 years ago (1974-01-06)
Founder	Al Bruner Peter Hill
Former names	CanWest Global System (used in the 1990s on non-Global branded Canwest stations)
Links
Website	Global Television Network

The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global, or occasionally Global TV) is a 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.

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.