CKND-TV
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CKND-DT is a television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

 that broadcasts 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...

, Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It is the Manitoba outlet for the Global Television Network
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...

.

History

The station's history can be traced back to 1959, where the establishment of its predecessor, KCND-TV
KCND-TV
KCND-TV was a television station located in Pembina, North Dakota, USA with offices also located at 2031 Portage Avenue in Winnipeg, Canada. KCND-TV was established by the Community Radio Corporation, the parent company of KNOX-TV and KNOX-AM in Grand Forks, N.D., after being granted a...

, was announced on February 20. It went on the air in Pembina, North Dakota
Pembina, North Dakota
Pembina is a city in Pembina County, North Dakota in the United States. The population was 592 at the 2010 census.The area of Pembina was long inhabited by various indigenous peoples...

 on channel 12 in November 1960. However, the station depended almost entirely on advertising from Winnipeg.

In February 1973, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced that it had received two applications to start a new television station in Winnipeg. One application had been submitted by Western Manitoba Broadcasters Ltd., the parent company of CKX-TV
CKX-TV
CKX-TV was a television station in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, formerly affiliated with CBC Television. Owned and operated by CTVglobemedia, it was the first privately owned television station in Manitoba...

 in Brandon, Man. The other application had been received from Continental Communications Ltd. of Vancouver, represented by Ray Peters, the president of Vancouver CTV affiliate CHAN-TV
CHAN-TV
CHAN-DT is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. Owned by Shaw Communications as a part of its Shaw Media division, it is the West Coast flagship station of the...

.

Subsequently, Peter Liba, who was then the executive assistant to Manitoba Liberal Party leader Izzy Asper
Izzy Asper
Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper, , Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate, was the founder of the now defunct CanWest Global Communications Corp and father to its former CEO and President Leonard Asper, former director and corporate secretary Gail Asper, as well as Executive Vice President David Asper...

, spotted the advertisement from the CRTC soliciting competing applications for the new Winnipeg television licence. Liba suggested that he and Asper make a bid. Asper flew to Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

 and back many times over the next few months to convince KCND's owner, Gordon McLendon
Gordon McLendon
Gordon Barton McLendon was a radio pioneer and pirate radio broadcaster. He has been coined the Maverick of Radio. McLendon is widely credited for perfecting, with great commercial success, the Top 40 radio format during the 1950s and 1960s which was first invented by Todd Storz and for developing...

, to sell the station's assets. He finally convinced McLendon that a new Winnipeg station would likely hurt KCND, since Winnipeg advertisers would probably no longer be allowed to deduct their American advertising costs from their taxes for much longer.

McLendon sold the station's facilities and equipment to Canwest Broadcasting, established by Asper and partners Paul Morton and Seymour Epstein, for $780,000, contingent on Canwest securing a broadcasting licence. At the CRTC's public hearings in Winnipeg in May 1974, Canwest noted that the acquisition of KCND would give their new Winnipeg station a $2 million advertising base and would save $1.5 million in capital and start-up costs compared to the alternative of launching a completely new station.

At the same hearing, competing applications were presented by Communications Winnipeg Co-Op, which proposed a member-supported non-commercial station, and Western Manitoba Broadcasters Ltd. which, like Canwest, proposed an independent commercial station. (Continental Communications had withdrawn its application prior to the public hearings.) John Boler, the owner of Valley City-Fargo, N.D. CBS affiliate KXJB-TV
KXJB-TV
KXJB-TV is a CBS affiliated television station in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, serving Eastern North Dakota and Northwestern Minnesota. It broadcasts on ATSC channel 38, which redirects to former NTSC channel 4 via PSIP. It is licensed to nearby Valley City...

 and future owner of KVRR
KVRR
KVRR, is a Fox affiliated television station in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, serving Eastern North Dakota, Northwestern Minnesota, and a portion of Southern Manitoba. It broadcasts on ATSC channel 19, which redirects to former NTSC channel 15 via PSIP...

/KNRR, also used the occasion to announce his intention to launch a new Pembina-based station on channel 12.

In September 1974, the CRTC awarded the Winnipeg Channel 9 licence to Canwest, which formally took possession and assumed day-to-day management of KCND-TV effective March 31, 1975. (Due to foreign ownership restrictions, the McLendon Corporation remained the official licensee of KCND until it surrendered the station's broadcasting licence to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission later that same year.) The same month, Canwest confirmed that the new station would operate from a former supermarket at 603 St. Mary's Road in Winnipeg and use an antenna mounted on the CBWT
CBWT
CBWT is the CBC's television station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is the only CBC station in Manitoba, since Brandon's CKX-TV closed on October 2, 2009....

 tower at Starbuck, Man. to avoid having to dismantle KCND's tower during the transition. In May 1975, Canwest announced that KCND's 17 Winnipeg-based employees had all accepted offers of employment at the new station, but that there was little interest among the station's 22 Pembina-based employees.

During Labour Day
Labor Day
Labor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September that celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers.-History:...

 weekend, on August 31, 1975, CKND signed on channel 9 (broadcast) and channel 12 (cable), both shown prominently in the station's logo. Both CKND and KCND simulcasted the Jerry Lewis Telethon until 5:30 p.m. on September 1, 1975, after which KCND permanently left the air.

The former KCND tower was later moved to Minnedosa
Minnedosa, Manitoba
Minnedosa is a town in the southwestern part of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Situated 50 kilometres north of Brandon, Manitoba on the Little Saskatchewan River, the name means "flowing water" in Sioux. The population of Minnedosa reported in the 2006 Statistics Canada Census was 2,474...

, a small town 46 km north of Brandon
Brandon, Manitoba
Brandon is the second largest city in Manitoba, Canada, and is located in the southwestern area of the province. Brandon is the largest city in the Westman region of Manitoba. The city is located along the Assiniboine River. Spruce Woods Provincial Park and CFB Shilo are a relatively short distance...

, to serve western Manitoba. Together, the two transmitters reach 91% of Manitoba's population. CKND's first program that night was Introducing CKND at 9 PM, followed by the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
The MDA Labor Day Telethon is an annual telethon in the United States to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association . The first MDA telethon was during the Thanksgiving Day weekend of 1952 and titled Party for MDA. It has been held annually since 1966...

at 9:30 PM. Its first regularly scheduled program following the telethon was The Hollywood Squares at 5:30PM.

In 1981, KCND became the call letters for KCND-FM, the first Prairie Public Radio (now North Dakota Public Radio
North Dakota Public Radio
Prairie Public is the public radio network for the state of North Dakota. It is a service of Prairie Public Broadcasting, in partnership with in association with North Dakota State University in Fargo and the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks...

) station in Bismarck, North Dakota
Bismarck, North Dakota
Bismarck is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. It is the second most populous city in North Dakota after Fargo. The city's population was 61,272 at the 2010 census, while its metropolitan population was 108,779...

. The same year, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission issued a construction permit for a new station to serve Pembina, N.D. on channel 12. The station's launch, however, would remain delayed until 1986.

On January 1, 1986, channel 12 returned in Pembina, North Dakota, as KNRR, a satellite of independent station KVRR
KVRR
KVRR, is a Fox affiliated television station in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, serving Eastern North Dakota, Northwestern Minnesota, and a portion of Southern Manitoba. It broadcasts on ATSC channel 19, which redirects to former NTSC channel 15 via PSIP...

 channel 15 in Fargo
Fargo, North Dakota
Fargo is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Cass County. In 2010, its population was 105,549, and it had an estimated metropolitan population of 208,777...

. Canadian cable operators were prohibited from distributing the signal, however, by an October 1986 CRTC decision in response to broadcaster concerns about the "potentially damaging effect of this station by providing Canadian advertisers with access to large amounts of commercial airtime at rates substantially lower than those they would be obliged to pay Canadian television licensees in order to reach the same potential audience." As the satellite station was never profitable due to its location, as well as its difficulties in being able to reach the Winnipeg audience, KNRR went off the air from June to October 2009 as the station did not upgrade to a digital signal.

Along with the other Canwest-owned stations, CKND was rebranded as Global in the fall of 1997. CKND's studios also produce Fox Soccer Report
Fox Soccer Report
Fox Soccer Report is Fox Soccer Channel's flagship studio program. The show is produced by Fox Sports World Canada, a Canadian international sports network owned by Shaw Media , from CKND-TV's studios in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The show, formerly called Fox Sports World Report and Global SportsLink,...

, which airs throughout the world on Fox Sports World Canada
Fox Sports World Canada
Fox Sports World Canada is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Shaw Media. FSWC's programming primarily features association football with select programming on other world sports such as rugby....

, Fox Soccer Channel
Fox Soccer Channel
Fox Soccer is an American television specialty channel, owned by News Corporation's Fox Entertainment Group, that specializes in soccer. It formerly broadcast rugby and Australian rules football, but is now dedicated strictly to soccer...

, and Fox Sports Middle East. On September 1, 2008, CKND moved its operations downtown to Canwest Place. On August 28, 2011, CKND ceased broadcasting over the air in analog.

News operation

On November 14, 2009, the station introduced a weekend evening 10 p.m. newscast. In December 2009, longtime anchor Eva Kovacs announced that she will be leaving after nearly twelve years with Global, to work for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is the governing body for healthcare regulation in an area of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Established in December 1999, the WRHA is one of 12 Regional Health Authorities in Manitoba responsible for coordinating health services in designated regions...

 in 2010. Her last day was December 18, 2009 and Shannon Martin was named as her replacement. Her departure came only a few months after lead Weather Anchor, Andrea Slobodian and Reporter, Meera Bahadoosingh, left for Shaw TV Calgary
Shaw TV Calgary
Shaw TV Calgary is a cable television community channel in Calgary, Alberta operated by Shaw Communications. The channel operates on cable channel 10....

 and Winnipeg
Shaw TV Winnipeg
Shaw TV Winnipeg is a cable television community channel in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, operating on cable channel 9. The channel is part of Shaw Cable's Shaw TV network of community channels....

, and Nightwatch Reporter/Anchor, Trina Maus left for CKVR-TV
CKVR-TV
CKVR-DT, is a television station in Barrie, Ontario, Canada, owned by Bell Media, it serves as the flagship station of Bell Media's secondary television service, CTV Two, with facilities located at 33 Beacon Road in Barrie...

 in Barrie
Barrie
Barrie may refer to:* Barrie, city in Ontario, Canada* Barrie , Canadian federal electoral district* Barrie , provincial electoral district* Barrie—Simcoe—Bradford, former Canadian electoral district...

, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

.

On May 31, 2011, Shaw Media announced that a new local morning show would begin broadcasting on Global Winnipeg in mid-September 2011. The morning newscasts would run from 6:00 am to 9:00 am Central Time. .

The spring and summer of 2011 brought a few high profile departures to the station; first Weekend anchor and reporter Nicole Dube left to become the Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

 Correspondent for Sun News Network. Next Dube's replacement; Lindsay Warner left the station to become the late night anchor at CTV Winnipeg, Lead Weather Anchor, Craig Larkins left for CTV Edmonton in July, and in late August it was announced that Senior Anchor, Shannon Martin would also be leaving to pursue her career in Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

. Her last broadcast was September 2, 2011. That same month it was announced that Kate Gajdosik would be the new Weather/Community Anchor, joining the station from CTV Vancouver. She will make her debut September 12, 2011.

On September 7, 2011, it was announced that Shaw Media would be continuing its expansion of political programming, Global News will be launching provincial half-hour political programs in several markets. Similar in format to Global Toronto’s Focus Ontario and Global Montreal’s Focus Montreal, these new political programs launched on Global Regina, Global Saskatoon and Global Winnipeg on October 15, 2011.

Newscast titles

  • CKND Firstnews (1970s–1994)
  • Newsline (1994–1997)
  • Global Manitoba News
    Global News
    Global 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:...

    (1997–2009)
  • Global Winnipeg News
    Global News
    Global 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:...

    (2009–present)

Station slogans

  • "Making It Happen" (1989–1994)
  • "Global's Got It!" (1997–2006)
  • "News You Talk About" (2006–2008)


News team

Anchors
  • Peter Chura
    Peter Chura
    Peter Chura is a Canadian television news anchor in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and is currently the anchor of Global Winnipeg's Evening News....

     - Evening News (weeknights at 6 p.m.); also supervising producer
  • Lauren McNabb - Host of Focus Manitoba
  • Brenna Rose - Evening News and Prime News (weekends at 6 and 10 p.m.)
  • Heather Steele - Prime News and News Final (weeknights at 10 and 11 p.m.)


Weather
  • Kate Gajdosik - weather anchor; Evening News, Prime News and News Final (weeknights at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.)


Sports team
  • Russ Hobson - sports anchor; Prime News and News Final (weeknights at 10 and 11 p.m.)
  • Joe Pascucci - sports director; Evening News (weeknights at 6 p.m.)
  • Mitch Rosset - sports anchor; Evening News and Prime News (weekends at 6 and 10 p.m


Reporters
  • Tamara Forlanski
  • Crystal Goomansingh - Global National
    Global National
    Global 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...

     Manitoba correspondent
  • Kaleigh Hamilton
  • Lauren McNabb - Senior Reporter, also Host of Focus Manitoba
  • Lorraine Nickel
  • Brenna Rose

Former on-air staff

  • Stephanie Armstrong - meteorologist (currently with CBXT
    CBXT
    CBXT-DT is the television call sign for the CBC's television station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.- History :The station first went on-air on October 1, 1961 as Edmonton's second television station; the previous CBC affiliate, CFRN, switched to the newly-established CTV on the same day. Initially,...

    )(now Stephanie Barsby)
  • Mike Brown - reporter
  • Barry Burns - news anchor
  • Lisa Best - entertainment reporter
  • Michelle Bailey - reporter/anchor (currently with City of Wpg. Corporate Communications)
  • Meera Bahadoosingh - reporter - Now a Police Officer with the Winnipeg Police Service
  • David Bastl - sports anchor (now with NHL Network)
  • Tyler Calver - sports anchor (formerly with CHEK-TV
    CHEK-TV
    CHEK-DT, channel 6.1, is a television station based in Victoria, British Columbia and broadcasting to all of southwestern BC...

    , now with CHEX-TV
    CHEX-TV
    CHEX-TV is a television station in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and an affiliate of the CBC Television network. It began broadcasting on March 26, 1955, with an NHL ice hockey game. The station broadcasts over-the-air on channel 12.- History :...

    )
  • Travis Dhanraj - reporter (now with Red Carpet Diary
    Red Carpet Diary
    Red Carpet Diary is an entertainment news feature covering the films, red carpet events and celebrity scene at the Toronto International Film Festival . The video, audio, and photo content is released daily through the duration of the festival on television, radio, online, and mobile apps around...

    )
  • Nicole Dube - weekend anchor (now with Sun News Network)
  • Linda Fabian - reporter
  • Jim Farrell - news anchor
  • Kristin Firth - news anchor
  • Nelly Gonzalez - reporter (now with CBC Winnipeg
    CBC Winnipeg
    CBC Winnipeg refers to:* CBW and CBW-1-FM, CBC Radio One on 990 AM and 89.3 FM* CBW-FM, CBC Radio 2 on 98.3 FM* CBWT, CBC Television on channel 6SRC Winnipeg refers to:* CKSB and CKSB-10-FM, Première Chaîne on 1050 AM and 90.5 FM...

    )
  • Nicole Harris - news anchor
  • Lisa Hrytsak - reporter
  • Stan Kubicek - weather person and station announcer
  • Jeff Keele - Reporter (now Political Watch Reporter with CTV Winnipeg)
  • Eva Kovacs (now with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
    Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
    The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is the governing body for healthcare regulation in an area of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Established in December 1999, the WRHA is one of 12 Regional Health Authorities in Manitoba responsible for coordinating health services in designated regions...

    )
  • Craig Larkins - Lead Weather Anchor - Now with CTV Edmonton
  • Jon Lovlin - news anchor (now CKND news director)
  • Don Marks
    Don Marks
    -Background:Marks was once a street youth before being adopted by an aboriginal family. From 1974 to 1976, he was co-ordinator of the War Resister Information Program in Winnipeg, providing assistance for Americans who moved to Canada to avoid service in the Vietnam War...

     - news anchor
  • Shannon Martin - News Anchor
  • Curtis Moore - weather person
  • Gus Nanton - news anchor (host of "CKND Newscap")
  • Derrick Oliver - news anchor
  • Adrienne Pan - news anchor
  • Kris Reyes - weekend anchor (now with CIII-TV
    CIII-TV
    CIII-DT-41 is a television station owned by Shaw Communications that serves much of the population of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is a flagship station of the Global Television Network...

     in Toronto)
  • Jeremy St. Louis
    Jeremy St. Louis
    Jeremy St. Louis is a former anchor for Fox Soccer Report on Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Sports World Canada. He was graduated from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology's broadcast journalism program in Calgary in the spring of 1997...

     - weather person
  • Paula Scott - reporter
  • Andrea Slobodian - weather/community anchor (now with Sun News Network)
  • Linden Soles - news anchor
  • Marjorie Stevens - news anchor (known originally as Marjorie Salki)
  • Kate Stutsman - weather/community anchor (currently with 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...

     in Hamilton, Ontario)
  • Diana Swain
    Diana Swain
    Diana Swain is a television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . She has been the host of CBC News At Six, CBC Toronto's local nightly newscast, since September 2004...

     - news anchor (currently Feature Reporter with CBC News: The National)
  • Brian Swain - news anchor (deceased)
  • Connie Tamoto - reporter
  • Lindsay Warner (now at CTV Winnipeg)

Digital television and high definition

Digital channels>
Channel Programming
9.1 CKND-DT HD feed
9.2 CKND-DT SD feed

The same program content is duplicated on both subchannels.
Broadcasting in Digital Yes
Programs in HD Yes
News in HD No
PSIP functioning properly No


On December 16, 2010, CKND-TV commenced digital broadcasting on channel 40 from Canwest Place.

Through the use of PSIP
Program and System Information Protocol
The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...

, digital television receivers will display CKND-TV's virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....

as 9.1.

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