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| Type | Terrestrial television network |
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| Country | Canada |
| Broadcast area | Canada parts of the northern United States via cable or antenna, depending on location |
| Affiliates | See § Global stations |
| Headquarters | Corus Quay, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Programming | |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Corus Entertainment |
| Key people | Jennifer Abrams (senior vice president, programming and platform, Corus Entertainment) |
| History | |
| Launched | January 6, 1974 |
| Founder |
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| 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.