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Maritimes City of license Halifax, Nova Scotia Branding Global Maritimes Channels Digital: 8 (VHF)
Virtual: 8.1 (PSIP)Translators see below Affiliations Global Owner Shaw Media
(Shaw Television Limited Partnership)First air date September 5, 1988 Call letters' meaning C Irving Family (station's original owner) Halifax & Fredericton Former callsigns CIHF-TV (1988-2011) Former channel number(s) Analog: 8 (1988-2011) Former affiliations Independent (1988-1997) Transmitter power 1 kW Height 241.0 m Transmitter coordinates 44°39′3″N 63°39′26″W / 44.65083°N 63.65722°W Website Global Maritimes CIHF-DT, channel 8, is a television station in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Owned by Shaw Media, it serves the Maritime provinces as an owned-and-operated station (O&O) of the Global Television Network. The station is currently branded as Global Maritimes, and was known as MITV (Maritimes Independent Television) until 1997.
The station has a semi-satellite in Saint John, New Brunswick, CIHF-DT-2, which broadcasts on channel 12. This feed serves transmitters in New Brunswick as well as Prince Edward Island. Prior to 2009, the New Brunswick feed broadcasted an annual charity telethon from Saint John. Currently, a separate New Brunswick newscast, as well as localized commercials are aired on the New Brunswick transmitters.
Global Maritimes is carried on cable 6 on most systems throughout the region, and is also carried on Bell TV on channel 204, along with the Saint John feed on channel 198 as of September 1, 2011. The New Brunswick feed was previously available through Star Choice (now Shaw Direct) channel 330 but was dropped in May 2008 for capacity reasons. On January 31, 2011, Global Maritimes was added back on Shaw Direct on channel 329.
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History
CIHF-TV was launched on September 5, 1988, and was initially owned by the New Brunswick Broadcasting Company (itself owned by the Irving family), which also owned CHSJ-TV (a private CBC affiliate at the time) in Saint John, New Brunswick. The station launched with four transmitters, namely those in Halifax, Saint John, Fredericton, and Moncton.
At the time, CIHF was the only over-the-air independent television station in the area, with studios and main operation centre in Halifax, and all other functions in Saint John. The station offered separate newscasts to each province and opportunities for advertisers to buy ad space in one or both provinces. At the time, the station was known as MITV - Maritimes Independent Television. As MITV shared owners with CHSJ-TV, a popular joke in the Maritimes was that MITV stood for "More Irving Television".
When MITV launched, the station took all primetime American shows from CBC stations CBHT and CHSJ, which is believed to have caused the CBC to launch an all-Canadian primetime schedule on their English language network.[citation needed]
In 1989, transmitters were added in Bridgewater, Truro, and Wolfville. The transmitter network was expanded further in 1993 to include service to Shelburne, Sydney, New Glasgow, and Yarmouth.
After losing $5 million each year since sign-on, CIHF was sold to Canwest on August 29, 1994. This was part of a three-way deal, which saw the CBC taking control of CHSJ-TV, moving it to Fredericton, and renaming it CBAT, making it a full CBC O&O. Later in the year, CIHF moved its operational and business headquarters to Halifax.
Former logo of Global Maritimes, from 1997 to 2006
In 1995, CIHF's Saint John offices were moved out of the old CHSJ building and into a new facility in Brunswick Square. Within a year of new ownership and its resulting reorganization and marketing focus, the station became profitable for the first time in its short history. In 1997, as a part of Canwest's rebranding programme, MITV became "Global Maritimes".
The remaining six transmitters signed on in 1998, growing CIHF's coverage to 90% of the Maritime population.
In October 2007 approximately forty employees at CIHF were laid off as part of a wider restructuring of the Global Television network and introduction of centralised news broadcast facilities.[1]
News operation
Global Maritimes airs two local newscasts a day from their Halifax studios: the flagship Evening News at 6 p.m.; and News Final, the region's only full hour local late-night newscast, at 11 p.m. The Evening News is followed by Global National at 6:30 p.m.; CIHF is the only Global O&O to air the network newscast at that time slot. Separate editions of the Evening News are produced for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. On Saturdays and Sundays, Global Maritimes airs the Evening News at 6 p.m. and News Final at 11 p.m. All of these news programs are broadcast from their Halifax studios.
Along with a growing number of other Global stations, CIHF has used a "virtual" studio since 2007. The anchor sits behind a desk in front of a green screen, onto which a virtual reality studio is digitally projected. Cameras and tapes are cued and controlled from a centralised control centre - which was originally in Vancouver, but was moved in August 2008 to Edmonton. A number of the redundancies made in October 2007 were directly attributable to the introduction of this new technology.
Global Maritimes also had a 5:30 p.m. newscast called the Early News, but was cancelled as of early 2007 to make way for a full hour late-night newscast. The Early News was the first attempt by Global Maritimes to compete against CTV Atlantic's flagship news magazine program Live at 5. Global also had a noon lifestyle show called The Noon Show, which was cancelled due to low ratings.
On May 31, 2011, Shaw Media announced that a new regional weekday morning newscast will begin broadcasting on Global Maritimes in late-November 2011. The morning newscasts will run from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. Atlantic Time. [2]
On June 8, 2011, the station announced that Ron Kronstein would become the senior anchor/producer for both the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick editions of the Evening News; Kronstein was the former host of Live at 5 on ATV (now CTV Atlantic) until 2003. [3] On the same day, the station provided more details about its upcoming Morning News, and announced that up to a dozen new reporters, producers, and videographers would be hired at its bureaus in Halifax, Sydney, Moncton, Saint John, and Fredericton.[4]
News team[5]
Anchors
- Marie Adsett - News Final (weeknights at 11 p.m.); also 6 p.m. reporter
- Ron Kronstein - Nova Scotia Evening News/New Brunswick Evening News (weeknights at 6 p.m.)
- Rebecca Lau - Weekend Evening News (weeknights at 6 p.m.) and News Final (weeknights at 11 p.m.); also weeknight reporter
Weather team
- Trevor Adams - lead meteorologist; Evening News (weeknights at 6 p.m) and News Final (weeknights at 11 p.m.)
- Natasha Pace - weather specialist; Weekend Evening News (weeknights at 6 p.m.) and News Final (weeknights at 11 p.m.), also weeknight reporter
Sports
- Kevin Karius - sports director (based out of Global Edmonton)[6] ; News Final (weeknights at 11 p.m.)
Reporters
- Mayya Assouad - general assignment reporter
- Ray Bradshaw - general assignment reporter
- Dave Crase - general assignment reporter
- Tino Makris - general assignment reporter
- Paul McLaughlin - general assignment reporter
- Brion Robinson - general assignment reporter
- Devin Stevens - general assignment reporter
- Nicole Weisberg - general assignment reporter
- Russ White - general assignment reporter
Notable former on-air staff
- Carla Bosacki - weather - (now at CICT-TV in Calgary)
- Bob Cowan - First Ticket entertainment reporter (now at CHCH-TV in Hamilton)
- Cindy Day - meteorologist (now at CTV Atlantic)
- Bruce Graham - news director/anchor/commentator (retired)
- Tarek Hagamad - anchor
- Stacey Jones - anchor/host of Sportsline
- Laura Lee Langley - anchor
- Duane Lowe - weather presenter and host of Maritime Noon/Global Noon/The Noon Show
- Judy Pal - anchor
- Paul Palmeter - reporter/anchor
- Tarah Schwartz - anchor (now at CFCF-TV in Montreal)
- Janet Stewart - evening anchor (now at CBWT in Winnipeg)
- Les Stoodley - host of Noon Hour
- Alex J. Walling - sports director
Other programming
The Maritimes are located in the Atlantic Time Zone, which is one hour ahead of the Eastern Time Zone, where Global's CIII Toronto is located. In order to accommodate such a time zone difference and maximize simultaneous substitution opportunities with the American stations carried on cable, CIHF's schedule deviates from that of most other Global O&Os, with some shows airing on different nights compared to other Global stations.
Transmitters
Below is a list of the rebroadcast transmitters of the Halifax feed.
Station City of licence Channel ERP HAAT Transmitter Coordinates CIHF-TV-4 Truro 18 (UHF) 17.9 kW 195.4 m 45°18′35″N 63°20′1″W / 45.30972°N 63.33361°W CIHF-TV-5 Wolfville 20 (UHF) 336 kW 221.7 m 45°2′39″N 64°21′19″W / 45.04417°N 64.35528°W CIHF-TV-6 Bridgewater 9 (VHF) 13.9 kW 164.5 m 44°23′17″N 64°40′44″W / 44.38806°N 64.67889°W CIHF-TV-7 Sydney 11 (VHF) 154.1 kW 192.2 m 46°5′55″N 60°18′41″W / 46.09861°N 60.31139°W CIHF-TV-8 New Glasgow 34 (UHF) 18.8 kW 190.7 m 45°28′54″N 62°33′47″W / 45.48167°N 62.56306°W CIHF-TV-9 Shelburne 10 (VHF) 3.9 kW 113.2 m 43°46′9″N 65°20′57″W / 43.76917°N 65.34917°W CIHF-TV-10 Yarmouth 45 (UHF) 66.4 kW 167.3 m 43°54′56″N 66°5′16″W / 43.91556°N 66.08778°W CIHF-TV-15 Antigonish 21 (UHF) 37.8 kW 208.1 m 45°38′26″N 62°7′32″W / 45.64056°N 62.12556°W CIHF-TV-16 Mulgrave 28 (UHF) 2.65 kW 128.4 m 45°35′56″N 61°24′44″W / 45.59889°N 61.41222°W Below is a list of the rebroadcast transmitters of the Saint John feed.
Station City of licence Channel ERP HAAT Transmitter Coordinates CIHF-DT-2 Saint John, NB 12 (VHF)
Virtual: 12.16 kW 354.0 m 45°28′40″N 66°14′0″W / 45.47778°N 66.233333°W CIHF-DT-1 Fredericton, NB 44 (UHF)
Virtual: 11.128 kW 163.5 m 46°2′26″N 66°29′24″W / 46.04056°N 66.49°W CIHF-DT-3 Moncton, NB 27 (UHF)
Virtual: 27.186 kW 311.5 m 45°48′32″N 64°44′56″W / 45.80889°N 64.74889°W CIHF-TV-11 Woodstock, NB 38 (UHF) 51.9 kW 174.3 m 46°25′12″N 67°33′32″W / 46.42°N 67.55889°W CIHF-TV-12 St. Stephen, NB 21 (UHF) 31.3 kW 240.8 m 45°10′15″N 66°54′28″W / 45.17083°N 66.90778°W CIHF-TV-13 Miramichi, NB 40 (UHF) 41.7 kW 119.1 m 47°3′20″N 65°29′17″W / 47.05556°N 65.48806°W CIHF-DT-14 Charlottetown, PEI 42 (UHF)
Virtual: 42.16.4 kW 146.0 m 46°21′59″N 63°24′35″W / 46.36639°N 63.40972°W References
- ^ CanWest to revamp stations, cut staff, Canadian Press, October 4, 2007
- ^ http://newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/31/c9068.html
- ^ http://older.kingsjournalism.com/kjr/journalism_3673_5374.html
- ^ http://www.globalmaritimes.com/Global+Maritimes+welcomes+Kronstein+Senior+Anchor/4912095/story.html
- ^ Global Maritimes - Personalities
- ^ "http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/video/index.html?releasePID=IW6bszs8r_jBugC8p9DMZeD3MEGyuzeO
External links
- Global Maritimes
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CIHF-TV History
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CIHF-TV
- Query TV Fool's coverage map for CIHF
Broadcast television in Nova Scotia HalifaxDTV CBHT (3.1 CBC) • CJCH (5.1 CTV) • CIHF (8.1 Global) • CBHFT 13Analog (Radio-Canada)
Other areas Cable-only CTV Two Atlantic • EastLink Television • Sportsnet East • Legislative Television
Broadcast television in New Brunswick FrederictonDTV MonctonDTV St. Andrews Saint JohnDTV Cable-only CTV Two Atlantic • Rogers TV • Legislative Assembly TV • TV Rogers • Sportsnet East • TVNB (defunct)
Broadcast television in Prince Edward Island Charlottetown CKCW (8.1 CTV) • CBCT (13.1 CBC) • CBAFT 31Analog (Radio-Canada) • CIHF-DT-14 (42.1 Global)
Other Global Television Network Owned and operated stations CHAN Vancouver • CHBC Kelowna • CICT Calgary • CITV Edmonton • CISA Lethbridge • CFSK Saskatoon • CFRE Regina • CKND Winnipeg • CIII Toronto • CKMI Montreal • CIHF HalifaxAffiliates CHFD Thunder Bay • CJON St. John's (de facto)Secondary carriers See also Shaw Media
Corporate Directors Adrian Burns · Jim Dinning · George Galbraith · Ronald Joyce · Charles Keating · Don Mazankowski · Michael O'Brien · Harold Roozen · Jeffrey Royer · Bradley Shaw · Jim Shaw · J.R. Shaw · J.C. Sparkman · John S. Thomas · Bill YuillBroadcast television CFRE Regina • CFSK Saskatoon • CHAN Vancouver • CHBC Kelowna • CICT Calgary • CIHF Halifax • CIII Toronto • CISA Lethbridge • CITV Edmonton • CKMI Montreal • CKND WinnipegCTV affiliateCable television/
specialty channelsAction • BBC Canada • Cable 141 • CPAC • DejaView • DIY Network • Dusk • Food Network • Fox Sports World Canada • Global Reality Channel • HGTV • Historia • History Television • IFC • MovieTime • Mystery TV • National Geographic Channel • Séries+ • Shaw PPV • Shaw TV1 • Showcase • Showcase Diva • Slice • The Cave • TVtropolis • Twist TVOther assets Shaw Broadcast Services · Shaw Business Solutions · Shaw Direct · Shaw Media · Shaw Rocket Fund · Shaw TrackingHistorical brands and predecessors Related companies 1Community channels owned by Shaw Cablesystems.
Annual Revenue: $2.46 billion CAN (
Many of the assets listed above are only partially owned by Shaw. Refer to full asset list for detailed information.
11% FY 2006) · Employees: 8,200 (FY 2006) · Stock Symbols: TSX: SJR.A NYSE: SJR · Website: www.shaw.caCategories:- Global Television Network stations
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