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Global flagship television station in Toronto

CIII DT (channel 41) is a television station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the flagship station of the Global Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, CIII DT maintains studios at 81 Barber Greene Road (near Leslie Street) in the Don Mills district of Toronto, and its transmitter is located atop the CN Tower in downtown Toronto. The station reaches much of the population of Ontario through a network of 12 transmitters across primarily the southern and central portions of the province (as a result, it is the de facto Global outlet for the capital city of Ottawa through repeater CIII DT 6). Since August 29, 2022, CIII DT serves as the master control hub for all 15 Global owned and operated stations across Canada.

Ken Soble, the founder of CHCH TV in Hamilton, envisioned a national "superstation" of 96 satellite fed transmitters with CHCH as its flagship. In 1966, he filed the first application with the Board of Broadcast Governors for a network to be branded as NTV — however, the application faced various regulatory hurdles and underwent numerous revisions over the next number of years. The Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) eventually decided to go ahead with the publicly owned Anik satellite system instead of relying on private communications companies to build Canada's satellite broadcasting infrastructure, placing the NTV application in jeopardy after Power Corporation of Canada, a key investor in the plan, backed out. In 1970, one of Soble's former employees, Al Bruner, teamed up with Peter Hill to revive the application under new ownership. Bruner and Hill's group, Global Communications, scaled back the original NTV proposal to a network of seven UHF transmitters in Southern Ontario, whose combined footprint would have provided at least secondary broadcast coverage from Montreal to Detroit. Global Communications still aspired to eventually build out Soble's original 97 station network, and viewed the seven transmitter Ontario chain as an interim step. However, since CHCH was no longer involved in the application, Global's iteration of the plan also required the launch of a new station to serve as its flagship. The station first signed on the air on January 6, 1974, as CKGN TV (before its use by the station, the CKGN callsign had previously been used by what is now CTV owned and operated station CKNY TV in North Bay from 1955 to 1962). It branded itself as the "Global Television Network," a name which reflected its then unprecedented coverage of most of Southern Ontario from six transmitters (a seventh that would have reached Montreal was turned down) fed from a centralized studio. From its launch in 1974 until 2009, the station's main transmitter was licensed to Paris, a small town near Brantford, but Toronto became the station's primary city of licence following an amendment to the channel 41 licence in 2009. Through its entire history, however, the station's main studio facility has been based in a converted factory (built 1954 for Barber Greene Canada Limited) in the Don Mills area of North York (since 1998, located in Toronto). It had hoped to be distinct from CBC and CTV by airing a number of its own Canadian made programs. Three months later, however, many of these programs had been cancelled due to deep financial problems. It had made a serious blunder by signing on in the middle of the 1973–74 television season, and prospective advertisers did not have the money to spare for commercial spots. It barely registered as a blip in the ratings; in Toronto, for instance, it only drew a 2.5 share, just a fraction of those drawn by CBC and CTV. Its line of credit was yanked, and it was unable to meet daily expenses. Amid losses of over a million dollars a month, the network was bailed out by two conglomerates in March 1974 – a Toronto based group headed by Allan Slaight and a Winnipeg based group headed by Izzy Asper and Paul Morton. By the fall, Global was forced to scrap its ambitious business model just to survive. Instead, it began airing as much non Canadian content as allowed (at the time, Canadian content regulations required stations to broadcast domestically produced programs for 60% of its overall schedule, and 50% during prime time), becoming essentially a clone of CTV. Asper's group bought controlling interest in 1977, making them first western owners of a major Canadian broadcaster. In 1989, Asper and Morton tried to buy out each other's shares, and the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba ended the contest by ordering a sale of shares by auction, which allowed Asper and his company, Canwest, to take full ownership. The station's callsign was changed to CIII TV in January 1984, in accordance with its 10th anniversary of broadcasting. The Windsor/Cottam transmitter would be an exception to the rebroadcasters that were also assigned the CIII calls that month for a few years as it continued to be identified in CRTC documents as CKGN TV 1, perhaps because of licensing issues with nearby broadcasters in the Detroit market (the CKGN calls are now used by an FM radio station in Kapuskasing, Ontario).

CIII DT presently broadcasts 30 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 hours, 35 minutes each weekday and 1 1/2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition to its main news department in Toronto, the station also operates a news bureau at the National Press Centre in Ottawa. CIII does not employ its own sports reporters; sports news content was formerly provided by sports specialty channel Sportsnet 360. Early on, its flagship news program Global News was developed under the guidance of Bill Cunningham, a veteran of CBC News; in the beginning, the newscast was anchored by Peter Trueman in Toronto and Peter Desbarats in Ottawa. During the news department's early years, its newscasts were one of the most successful and important programs that CKGN/CIII had. Trueman has noted in his memoir that the programme 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 programme 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 a 90 minute block of news starting at 5:30 p. m., as well as newscasts at noon and 11 p. m. By the end of the 1980s, the noon newscast was simply titled News at Noon, the 5:30 newscast was called First News, the 6 p. m. newscast was called The Six O'Clock Report, and the 11 p. m. newscast was titled The World Tonight. Trueman left CIII in 1988. Other anchors on the station 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. From 1994 to 2001, CIII also produced First National, which was anchored by Peter Kent and aired 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 CHAN's facility in Vancouver before moving to a dedicated studio in Ottawa in February 2008. In January 2009, CIII canceled its weekday morning newscast Global News Morning, along with the Noon News Hour, with the former being discontinued due to low ratings and both programs being dropped due to cost cutting measures at certain Global stations. From February to August 2009, CIII simulcast former Hamilton sister station CHCH TV's Morning Live newscast each weekday from 7 to 9 a. m. The CHCH simulcast was later dropped after Canwest sold that station to Channel Zero, with CIII airing second run lifestyle programming in the morning timeslot, as well as rebroadcasts of the previous night's News Hour Final. On October 11, 2011, CIII DT launched a three hour weekday morning newscast titled The Morning Show, running from 6 to 9 a. m., which broadcasts from a storefront studio at Shaw Media's Bloor Street building in Downtown Toronto. 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. On August 27, 2012, CIII restored a midday newscast to its schedule with the launch of a half hour weekday noon newscast. Unlike the existing lunch hour newscasts carried on Global's sister stations, the newscast airs for 30 minutes instead of one hour. The expansions to CIII's news programming were part of a benefits package that was included as a condition of the sale of the Global Television Network to Shaw Communications. In June 2016, Global News announced that The Morning Show co host Liza Fromer would not have her contract renewed after five years with the station. Fromer was the only original host of The Morning Show remaining from when the show launched in 2011. No replacement was hired to fill her position. Another layoff was with Global News at Noon anchor Rosey Edeh. Neither anchor works with the station anymore.

The Morning Show – airing from 6–9:30 a. m. ET weekdays. The show is hosted by Carolyn Mackenzie, Jeff McArthur and Liem Vu at a studio at Corus Quay. Carolyn Mackenzie anchored local news, Jeff McArthur anchored national news, and Liem Vu reported on social media news and weather. Jeff McArthur's national news segment is also aired on Global News Morning shows on Global Halifax, Montreal, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, and Regina. The 9–9:30 portion of the show is also aired nationally after local Global News Morning programs, however the run time has since been extended to one hour. The national one hour show kept The Morning Show branding, while it was dropped locally.

+Subchannel of CIII DT Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming 41.1 1080i 16:9 CIII HD Main CIII DT programming / Global

CIII TV 41 in Toronto began broadcasting its digital signal in July 2009. The station's analogue signal, over UHF channel 41, was shut down on August 31, 2011, the official date on which Canadian television stations in CRTC designated mandatory markets transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts. CIII's digital signal was relocated from its pre transition UHF channel 65, as its original digital channel was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to UHF channel 41. Global also transitioned CIII TV in Paris, CIII TV 6 in Ottawa and CIII TV 7 in Midland (serving Barrie) to digital on August 31, 2011. CIII TV 22 in Stevenson (serving Windsor and Chatham) converted to digital on August 8, 2011. The transmitter operates at a reduced power and its coverage area has been reduced. CIII TV 55 in Fort Erie vacated its channel frequency on August 31, 2011, as Global decided to shut down that transmitter. Coverage to the areas in Canada served by the Fort Erie transmitter are provided by CIII DT 41. Global plans on transitioning its remaining transmitters to digital by 2016, though all of CIII DT's transmitters except for its Bancroft transmitter are to be converted to digital by February 2013. Shortly after the 2011 digital transition, an additional digital subchannel (41.2) was launched, carrying a standard definition feed of CIII DT, which fully duplicated the existing programming on 41.1. However (unlike other Toronto area stations), this SD feed was not simply a letterboxed or cropped version of the HD feed, instead having different placement for promotional graphics and a separate on screen bug (without an "HD" annotation). It is therefore possible that the SD feed needed to be broadcast over the air in order to continue carriage of this dedicated feed on cable and satellite providers (however, it also served as a benefit to some over the air viewers with 4:3 television sets and digital converters, insofar as it allowed those viewers to avoid older 4:3 programs appearing both letterboxed and pillarboxed). In late spring 2018, CIII DT ceased broadcasting digital subchannel 41.2. On April 10, 2012, Shaw Media applied for permission to change CIII DT 6's allocation from VHF channel 6 to UHF channel 14, switching from circular to elliptical polarization, citing the VHF Low band's impulse noise (compared to the VHF High and UHF bands) causing reception issues, which would be mostly resolved with a higher frequency. The power would be increased substantially, from 3.3 kW, to 145 kW. The application states that it may be short spaced to Buffalo, New York's WUTV, and Plattsburgh, New York's WPTZ, both of which may be subject to (and cause) some co channel interference on the fringes of CIII DT 6's service area. This application was approved by the CRTC on July 4, 2012. CIII DT 6 officially moved to channel 14 in mid August 2013. Shaw Media had begun applying for permission to convert its transmitters in Northern Ontario to digital, with CFGC TV in Sudbury and CFGC TV 2 in North Bay on June 14, and CIII TV 12 in Sault Ste. Marie on June 22. The application for CIII TV 12 included switching its digital allotment from VHF channel 7 to UHF channel 15, for improved signal quality and a slightly increased population coverage. The application for CFGC DT 2 requested the use of UHF channel 15, instead of UHF channel 32, as CHCH TV 6 currently uses that frequency. The digital channel for CFGC TV has not yet been requested. All three transmitters are to be fed via satellite. Following the shutdown of the Radio Canada repeater in Kitchener (CBLFT TV 8) which had been assigned the UHF channel 17 allocation, Shaw had applied on October 10, 2012, to move its CIII DT digital transmitter in Paris from VHF channel 6 to UHF channel 17, to vastly improve its coverage to the Kitchener area. Technical parameters included in the change would be a boost in power and slight decrease in height (4 kW at 311.3 meters on VHF channel 6, compared to 165 kW (average of 97 kW) at 272 meters on UHF channel 17). The UHF signal would have a slightly smaller range of broadcast coverage, but Shaw had admitted that areas on the fringes would still be able to receive Global programming via CIII DT 29, CIII DT 41 and CIII TV 4. The application was approved by the CRTC on January 22, 2013. Prior to being shut down in 2022, CIII DT 27 could on most days be seen from as far away as Rochester, New York, on channel 27.1. In January 2020, the transmitter power of CIII TV 2 (Bancroft) was temporarily reduced to prevent an overload caused by high VSWR at the site. On December 4, 2020, the CRTC approved a request from Corus Entertainment to shut down CIII DT 27 and CIII TV 2 (among other Global retransmitters) in favour of multiplexing CIII DT 27 via CHEX DT and CIII TV 2 via CKWS DT Kingston. This decision saw the CRTC abandon a promise made in 2010 to have the owners of Global Television transition CIII TV 2 to digital. CIII TV 2 continued to operate as an NTSC analogue retransmitter until August 31, 2022. The CIII TV 2 transmitter that operated out of Vennachar for close to 50 years was possibly the last over the air analogue transmitter to rebroadcast Global in Ontario. It is unclear what Industry Canada will now use VHF channel 11, the spectrum that had been allocated for CIII TV 2 digital, for.