Global Television Network

Global Television Network
Type	Terrestrial television network
Country	Canada
Broadcast area	Nationwide (available in parts of the northern United States depending on location)
Affiliates	See § Global stations
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Programming
Picture format	1080i HDTV
Ownership
Owner	Corus Entertainment
Key people	Doug Murphy; (President and CEO of Corus Entertainment); Troy Reeb; (Vice President of Broadcast Networks)
History
Launched	January 6, 1974
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.