Global National is the national newscast of
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in
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.
The program's weekday anchor is Kevin Newman, whose name was added to the program's title from the start of its second season. From 2001 until 2008, Newman anchored the program from Global's
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station
CHAN-TVCHAN-TV is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on analog channel 8 and digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. It is the flagship station of the Global Television Network. CHAN-TV's studios are located in...
using a studio shared with local newscasts. In February 2008, Newman moved to
OttawaOttawa is the capital of Canada and a municipality within the Province of Ontario. Located in the Ottawa Valley in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario, the city lies on the southern banks of the Ottawa River, a major waterway forming the local boundary between the Provinces of Ontario and...
and now anchors from a specially-built digital newsroom and studio facility in the city.
Global National is the national newscast of
Global Television NetworkGlobal Television Network is a Canadian English language privately owned television network. It is owned by Canwest Media Inc., a division of Canwest which is headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Throughout the 1990s, it dominated primetime ratings in key markets such as southern Ontario, B.C...
in
CanadaCanada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
.
The program's weekday anchor is Kevin Newman, whose name was added to the program's title from the start of its second season. From 2001 until 2008, Newman anchored the program from Global's
VancouverVancouver is a coastal city and major seaport located in the Lower Mainland of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. The city is bounded by English Bay, Burrard Inlet, the Fraser River, the city of Burnaby, and the University Endowment Lands. Vancouver is named after Captain George Vancouver, a...
station
CHAN-TVCHAN-TV is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on analog channel 8 and digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. It is the flagship station of the Global Television Network. CHAN-TV's studios are located in...
using a studio shared with local newscasts. In February 2008, Newman moved to
OttawaOttawa is the capital of Canada and a municipality within the Province of Ontario. Located in the Ottawa Valley in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario, the city lies on the southern banks of the Ottawa River, a major waterway forming the local boundary between the Provinces of Ontario and...
and now anchors from a specially-built digital newsroom and studio facility in the city.
Global National is the only Canadian national news to be regularly anchored from the capital. The newscast's main editorial and production staff remain at CHAN-TV in Vancouver from which the Ottawa studio's cameras are controlled remotely. Similar remote-controlled greenscreen studios have been introduced at a number of local Global newscasts.
Carolyn JarvisCarolyn Jarvis is currently a Vancouver-based correspondent for 16x9 - The Bigger Picture and a substitute anchor for Global BC. She is also the Saturday anchor for Global National. Prior to her current position, she worked at Global Edmonton from spring 2005 to January 2009...
and
Robin GillRobin Gill is a Canadian journalist. She has also worked for the CBC and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and from BCIT she earned a diploma in broadcast journalism....
currently share the weekend anchor position of
Global National, hosting on Saturday and Sunday respectively. Formerly the position was held by
Tara NelsonTara Nelson is a Canadian television journalist and news anchor.On February 26, 2005, Nelson, previously a reporter for Global Television Network, became the weekend anchor of Global National....
, who became Global's Europe bureau chief in September 2008.
History
Global National aired for the first time on September 3, 2001. Prior to its launch, Global aired
Canada TonightCanada Tonight was a Canadian television newscast, which aired on stations owned by Western International Communications. It was produced out of the studio of BCTV in Vancouver. There were two versions of the newscast; the one seen outside British Columbia was anchored by Tony Parsons, and the one...
(which it had inherited from the
WIC150px|rightThe redundantly-named WIC Western International Communications Ltd. was a Canadian media company, which was acquired by Canwest in 2000. CanWest kept the company's broadcast television stations and a variety of related assets...
group of stations) for a few months; that program, in turn, had replaced regional newscasts such as
First National. Weekend broadcasts began on February 26, 2005.
Until February 2006,
Global National aired in different time slots across the country: 5:30 in
British ColumbiaBritish Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . In 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada...
, 6:00 in
ManitobaManitoba is a prairie province in Canada and has an area of . Manitoba is bordered by the provinces of Ontario to the east and Saskatchewan to the west, the territory of Nunavut to the north, and the U.S. states of North Dakota and Minnesota to the south...
and
SaskatchewanSaskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of and a population of 1,023,810 , mostly living in the southern half of the province. Of these, 233,923 live in the province's largest city, Saskatoon, while 194,971 live in the provincial capital, Regina...
, 6:30 in
AlbertaAlberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces. It became a province on September 1, 1905.Alberta is located in western Canada, bounded by the provinces of British Columbia to the west and Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Territories to the north, and the U.S. state of Montana to the south....
,
OntarioOntario is a province located in east-central Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area. Ontario is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba to the west and Quebec to the east, and 5 U.S...
and
QuebecQuebec is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking identity and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, and 11:15 in the Maritime Provinces. The program is now aired live at 5:30 p.m. on Global stations in the Eastern Time Zone and 6:30 p.m. in the Atlantic Time Zone. This version of the show is then broadcast via satellite tape delay in time zones to the west (at 5:30 local time), with updates if news events warrant. The timeslot allows it to become a lead-in to local news in most of the country. While strong in Western Canada from day one – particularly in B.C., where the Global station
CHANCHAN-TV is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on analog channel 8 and digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. It is the flagship station of the Global Television Network. CHAN-TV's studios are located in...
dominates local news ratings – the timeslot change allowed it to improve its ratings significantly in Ontario. Its current lead-in in that province,
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, had previously given a strong ratings bump to
CIIICIII-TV is a television station owned by Canwest that serves much of the population of the Canadian province of Ontario. From its launch in 1974 until 2009, the station's main transmitter was licensed to Paris, a small town near Brantford, but following a license amendment in 2009, Toronto is now...
's local newscast.
Despite having fewer reporters and being a latecomer to national news in Canada,
Global National has come to rival its competitors at
CTV National NewsCTV National News is CTV's flagship newscast, which airs at 11:00pm local time on the CTV stations across Canada, and live at 10:00pm ET, with repeats hourly up until 2am ET on CTV News Channel, CTV's 24-hour cable news channel, and the previous day's can be seen on the Internet...
and
CBCCBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.-Overview:CBC Television provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment and children's programming, in most cases feeding the same programming at the same local times...
's
The National in both awards and ratings. During most weeks since the timeslot change in February,
Global National has ranked as Canada's most-watched national newscast according to the
Bureau of Broadcast MeasurementBBM Canada, also known as BBM, is an audience measurement organization for Canadian television and radio broadcasting.BBM was established on May 11, 1944 as a division of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters. The organization was originally known as the "Bureau of Broadcasting Measurement",...
. This is with the caveat that only initial airings from Monday to Friday are compared; CTV still leads on a seven-day basis.
Substitute anchors
Regular substitute anchors have included
- Chris Gailus
Chris Gailus is a Canadian television news anchor.Gailus graduated from the Broadcast Journalism Program at Mount Royal College in Calgary in 1989, where he made the Dean's List and played basketball. He began his career in Lethbridge, Alberta, and stayed there for three years...
(Global BCCHAN-TV is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on analog channel 8 and digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. It is the flagship station of the Global Television Network. CHAN-TV's studios are located in...
)
- Leslie Roberts
Leslie Roberts is a Canadian journalist and TV personality, primarily from his position as the anchor for Global Ontario's News Hour from 6-7 p.m and "News Hour Final" from 11:00 p.m - 12:00 a.m. He was also the host and successor to Bill Carroll's 10 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. shift on CFRB Radio in Toronto...
(Global OntarioCIII-TV is a television station owned by Canwest that serves much of the population of the Canadian province of Ontario. From its launch in 1974 until 2009, the station's main transmitter was licensed to Paris, a small town near Brantford, but following a license amendment in 2009, Toronto is now...
)
- Jamie Orchard
Jamie Orchard is a Canadian journalist. She is the host and news anchor for Evening News and Focus Montreal on Global Quebec.She was born and raised in the Montreal suburb of Brossard, Quebec.-External links:*...
(Global QuebecCKMI-TV-1 is the Global Television Network owned-and-operated station in Quebec.Originally a privately owned CBC Television affiliate in Quebec City, the station moved most of its operations to Montreal in 1997 after launching a rebroadcaster there and becoming a Global affiliate...
)
- Jill Krop
Jill Krop is a Canadian television journalist and one of the Global BC anchor, as well as radio personality.She was born in Edmonton, Alberta and raised in British Columbia where she studied journalism at The British Columbia Institute of Technology and graduated with her BCIT Diploma of Technology...
(Global BCCHAN-TV is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on analog channel 8 and digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. It is the flagship station of the Global Television Network. CHAN-TV's studios are located in...
)
- Deborra Hope
Deborra Hope is a journalist, anchor and producer for the Global Television Network. She has been hosting the Early News and the 'InSight' segment on the News Hour at 6, since 2001 in British Columbia, Canada. She joined the station in 1981 .- Biography :Deborra was born in Trail, B.C., a small...
(Global BCCHAN-TV is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on analog channel 8 and digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. It is the flagship station of the Global Television Network. CHAN-TV's studios are located in...
)
- Sophie Lui (Global BC
CHAN-TV is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on analog channel 8 and digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. It is the flagship station of the Global Television Network. CHAN-TV's studios are located in...
)
- Robin Stickley
Robin Stickley is a Canadian television journalist who has been with CHAN-TV since January 2004. Prior to that date, she transferred from CITV-TV where she co-hosted the morning news for four years. She hosts the weekend morning news and noon news hour on Saturdays and Sundays...
(Global BCCHAN-TV is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on analog channel 8 and digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. It is the flagship station of the Global Television Network. CHAN-TV's studios are located in...
)
- Carolyn Jarvis
Carolyn Jarvis is currently a Vancouver-based correspondent for 16x9 - The Bigger Picture and a substitute anchor for Global BC. She is also the Saturday anchor for Global National. Prior to her current position, she worked at Global Edmonton from spring 2005 to January 2009...
(Global BCCHAN-TV is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on analog channel 8 and digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. It is the flagship station of the Global Television Network. CHAN-TV's studios are located in...
)
- Randene Neill (Global BC
CHAN-TV is a television station in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, broadcasting over-the-air on analog channel 8 and digital channel 22, and available via cable providers in the area on channel 11. It is the flagship station of the Global Television Network. CHAN-TV's studios are located in...
)
Unique offerings
Global National was the first mainstream Canadian newscast to be released as a podcast. In 2006 the download was expanded to include video for playback on a video
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.
Global National often uses VoxPolls using text messaging to conduct informal polls, the results are shown on the newscast and in the
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.
Correspondents
- Kevin Newman - Anchor
- Robin Gill - Weekend Anchor/Substitute Anchor
- Carolyn Jarvis - Substitute Anchor/British Columbia correspondent
- Francis Silvaggio - Alberta correspondent
- Crystal Goohmansing - Manitoba/Saskatchewan correspondent
- Mike Drolet - Ontario correspondent
- Jacques Bourbeau - Ottawa bureau chief
- Peter Harris - Ottawa correspondent
- Mike Armstrong - Quebec correspondent
- Ross Lord - Maritimes correspondent
- Shirlee Engel - Ottawa correspondent
- Eric Sorensen - Washington bureau chief
- Paul Johnson - Washington correspondent
- Stuart Greer - Foreign Editor (London)
- Tara Nelson - Europe bureau chief (London)
- Lauren McNabb - Middle East correspondent (Jerusalem)
- Jas Johal - South Asia correspondent (New Delhi)
- Ben O'Hara-Byrne - Asia correspondent (Beijing)
Global National is also backed by the local Global News teams across Canada.
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