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105-669: CIII-DT (channel 41) is a television station in Toronto, Ontario , Canada, serving as the flagship station of the Global Television Network . Owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment , CIII-DT maintains studios at 81 Barber Greene Road (near Leslie Street) in the Don Mills district of Toronto, and its transmitter is located atop the CN Tower in downtown Toronto . The station reaches much of

210-572: A TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around the world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require

315-422: A barter in some cases. Allan Slaight John Allan Slaight CM (July 19, 1931 – September 19, 2021) was a Canadian rock and roll radio pioneer, media mogul , and philanthropist. His career began as an amateur magician before moving to radio. He was the founder of Slaight Communications , and the president and CEO of Standard Broadcasting Corporation Limited, which was Canada's largest privately owned

420-504: A broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines the broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires

525-493: A CFGM-AM renewal license and asked the CRTC to consider an FM license for a sister station. Slaight proposed that the new station would offer an ombudsman service for listeners and include other services such as consumer reports. The station was licensed that summer and CILQ-FM ("Q107"), transmitting at 107.1 MHz, debuted on June 1, 1977, with offices operating from Toronto's Hudson Bay Centre , 30th floor and transmitting from

630-485: A PR stunt. By December 1976, Slaight had successfully navigated Global out of debt and the television station had reached a break-even point in its day-to-day operations. Slaight and IWC exercised a "buy-sell clause" on December 22 to buy out its investment and financing partners Global Communications Ltd. and Seymour Epstein. Collectively, the two partners held 55% of Global's holdings. Instead, Slaight and IWC were bought out by Winnipeg Theatre tycoon Paul Morton. As

735-519: A benefits package that was included as a condition of the sale of the Global Television Network to Shaw Communications. In June 2016, Global News announced that The Morning Show co-host Liza Fromer would not have her contract renewed after five years with the station. Fromer was the only original host of The Morning Show remaining from when the show launched in 2011. No replacement was hired to fill her position. Another layoff

840-450: A clone of CTV. Asper's group bought controlling interest in 1977, making them first western owners of a major Canadian broadcaster. In 1989, Asper and Morton tried to buy out each other's shares, and the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba ended the contest by ordering a sale of shares by auction, which allowed Asper and his company, Canwest , to take full ownership. The station's callsign

945-571: A company engaged in advertising and communications. He then established a strategic partnership with Stephens & Towndrow for his company to act as consultants in Programming, Sales and Marketing. Stephens and Towndrow was a sales firm that placed commercials with radio and TV stations. They represented 18 AM and FM radio stations throughout Canada and had been acquired by Canadian broadcasters from CBS Radio . By September of that same year, Stephens & Towndrow publicly announced that Slaight

1050-522: A group of businessmen proposed a controversial idea, that of purchasing the CBC 's English language TV network. Under the privatization plan, private business interests would have transformed the CBC's English TV network to a profit-oriented business and would have reduced Canadian content from 74 per cent to 50 per cent in prime time and 60 per cent overall. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney definitively stated that CBC

1155-617: A job in radio, Slaight sold shoes at the Eaton's Department store before finally joining radio station CFRN that same year as a news reporter before leaving to join CJCA in 1952. In 1954 Slaight joined Edmonton-based radio station CHED-AM as the station's News Director. Two years later in 1956, Slaight was appointed Merchandising Director. In early 1958 Slaight was hired as program and promotions manager for Toronto-based CHUM radio station. CHUM had earlier turned to rock and roll to achieve

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1260-444: A larger listenership and it was hoped that importing Slaight from Edmonton would allow CHUM to reach the number one spot on Toronto's radio waves. Slaight was successful in instituting and shepherding CHUM towards a new format and CHUM dethroned Toronto's top radio station CKEY ( now CHKT ). Slaight's emphasis on talk radio was unlike other radio stations of its time. Slaight insisted that while CHUM would still focus on rock and roll,

1365-599: A million dollars a month, the network was bailed out by two conglomerates in March 1974 – a Toronto-based group headed by Allan Slaight and a Winnipeg -based group headed by Izzy Asper and Paul Morton . By the fall, Global was forced to scrap its ambitious business model just to survive. Instead, it began airing as much non-Canadian content as allowed (at the time, Canadian content regulations required stations to broadcast domestically produced programs for 60% of its overall schedule, and 50% during prime time), becoming essentially

1470-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in

1575-750: A multimedia company. He was an active philanthropist and founder of the Slaight Family Foundation. On September 19, 2021, he died at his home in Toronto, Ontario , at the age of 90. John Allan Slaight was born in Galt (now Cambridge ), Ontario , Canada to Florence Eileen Wright and John Edgar (Jack) Slaight. His father was a newspaperman who worked for the Galt Evening Reporter (now Cambridge Reporter ). His family (including his younger siblings Brian and Ann) moved to Moose Jaw , Saskatchewan when their father, Jack, bought

1680-404: A name which reflected its then-unprecedented coverage of most of Southern Ontario from six transmitters (a seventh that would have reached Montreal was turned down) fed from a centralized studio. From its launch in 1974 until 2009, the station's main transmitter was licensed to Paris , a small town near Brantford , but Toronto became the station's primary city of licence following an amendment to

1785-486: A national " superstation " of 96 satellite-fed transmitters with CHCH as its flagship. In 1966, he filed the first application with the Board of Broadcast Governors for a network to be branded as NTV — however, the application faced various regulatory hurdles and underwent numerous revisions over the next number of years. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) eventually decided to go ahead with

1890-599: A reduced power and its coverage area has been reduced. CIII-TV-55 in Fort Erie vacated its channel frequency on August 31, 2011, as Global decided to shut down that transmitter. Coverage to the areas in Canada served by the Fort Erie transmitter are provided by CIII-DT-41. Global plans on transitioning its remaining transmitters to digital by 2016, though all of CIII-DT's transmitters except for its Bancroft transmitter are to be converted to digital by February 2013. Shortly after

1995-402: A result of the buy-out, IWC's holdings were reduced significantly in the industry and in 1977 IWC prepared to sell off the controlling interest of its broadcasting holdings to Selkirk Holdings Ltd . (one of Canada's largest broadcasting companies at the time), and to sell off its cable television assets to Credit Valley Cable TV/FM Ltd. The CRTC denied the radio-related application but approved

2100-457: A serious blunder by signing on in the middle of the 1973–74 television season, and prospective advertisers did not have the money to spare for commercial spots. It barely registered as a blip in the ratings; in Toronto, for instance, it only drew a 2.5 share, just a fraction of those drawn by CBC and CTV. Its line of credit was yanked, and it was unable to meet daily expenses. Amid losses of over

2205-427: A shareholder. CFGM Broadcasting Ltd continued as a subsidiary of IWC Communications Ltd. After becoming president of a company running three radio stations and three cable systems, Slaight made a $ 12 million bid in early 1973 to acquire 52 per cent of Bushnell Broadcasting of Ottawa , Vancouver , and Toronto. The CRTC rejected the bid on March 26, 1973. But, the following day, Slaight was pleased to find out he and

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2310-503: A shift of Global National to the 6:30 p.m. slot, joining Montreal's CKMI-DT and Halifax's CIHF-DT as the only Global stations to carry the network's national newscast in that timeslot. On August 27, 2012, CIII restored a midday newscast to its schedule with the launch of a half-hour weekday noon newscast. Unlike the existing lunch hour newscasts carried on Global's sister stations, the newscast airs for 30 minutes instead of one hour. The expansions to CIII's news programming were part of

2415-517: A slightly increased population coverage. The application for CFGC-DT-2 requested the use of UHF channel 15, instead of UHF channel 32, as CHCH-TV-6 currently uses that frequency. The digital channel for CFGC-TV has not yet been requested. All three transmitters are to be fed via satellite. Following the shutdown of the Radio-Canada repeater in Kitchener ( CBLFT-TV-8 ) which had been assigned

2520-434: A slightly smaller range of broadcast coverage, but Shaw had admitted that areas on the fringes would still be able to receive Global programming via CIII-DT-29, CIII-DT-41 and CIII-TV-4. The application was approved by the CRTC on January 22, 2013. CIII-DT-27 Peterborough/Cobourg could on most days be seen from as far away as Rochester, New York , on channel 27.1. In January 2020, the transmitter power of CIII-TV-2 (Bancroft)

2625-635: A station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,

2730-483: A station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as

2835-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations

2940-547: Is an annual invitation-only event inspired by and meant to resurrect the spirit of collaboration and camaraderie seen in the once-held magician's event (The Ibidem Event) hosted by P. Howard Lyons. Slaight's own magic tricks (the Magnetic Miraskill, OTWONE Prediction and others) can be found in most magic magazines from the past 50 years such as Ibidem, Genii – The Conjurors' Magazine , and Magic – The Independent Magazine for Magicians . Slaight's contributions to

3045-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually

3150-696: Is therefore possible that the SD feed needed to be broadcast over-the-air in order to continue carriage of this dedicated feed on cable and satellite providers (however, it also served as a benefit to some over-the-air viewers with 4:3 television sets and digital converters, insofar as it allowed those viewers to avoid older 4:3 programs appearing both letterboxed and pillarboxed ). In late spring 2018, CIII-DT ceased broadcasting digital subchannel 41.2. On April 10, 2012, Shaw Media applied for permission to change CIII-DT-6's allocation from VHF channel 6 to UHF channel 14, switching from circular to elliptical polarization, citing

3255-489: The Moose Jaw Times-Herald in 1945. Jack Slaight was also the eventual co-owner of Moose Jaw radio station CHAB-AM, one of Canada's first radio stations. An avid magician since his youth, Slaight honed his skills starting at age eight, when a trip to Toronto at Christmas time sparked his imagination about the wonders and secrets behind magic after becoming mesmerized by Johnny Giordmaine's performance at

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3360-480: The CN Tower . In 1982, Slaight bought a controlling interest in Urban Outdoors, the second-largest outdoor advertising business in Canada. The company specialized in backlit outdoor advertising in Canada's 20 largest markets. The pairing of outdoor advertising with radio seemed a natural fit to Slaight who stated that the business was "about as recession-proof as any business." In early 1985, Slaight and

3465-566: The Noon News Hour , with the former being discontinued due to low ratings and both programs being dropped due to cost-cutting measures at certain Global stations. From February to August 2009, CIII simulcast former Hamilton sister station CHCH-TV's Morning Live newscast each weekday from 7 to 9 a.m. The CHCH simulcast was later dropped after Canwest sold that station to Channel Zero , with CIII airing second-run lifestyle programming in

3570-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has

3675-484: The 2011 digital transition, an additional digital subchannel (41.2) was launched, carrying a standard definition feed of CIII-DT, which fully duplicated the existing programming on 41.1. However (unlike other Toronto-area stations), this SD feed was not simply a letterboxed or cropped version of the HD feed, instead having different placement for promotional graphics and a separate on-screen bug (without an "HD" annotation). It

3780-604: The Bancroft transmitter had yielded poor to marginal results; this signal has since been largely supplanted (for Peterborough only) by the more-powerful CIII-TV-27. Despite CHEX-DT becoming Global's Peterborough station in 2018, CIII-DT-27 remains on the air. CIII-TV-41, along with CHCH in Hamilton and CHAN-TV in Vancouver, began over-the-air high-definition broadcasts in 2008. Download coordinates as: Channel still on

3885-661: The CIII base callsign followed by a number to denote their status as rebroadcasters, except in Sudbury and North Bay where the CFGC callsign is assigned. The most likely explanation for using CFGC is that the close resemblance between the number 1 and the letter I would make CIII-TV-11 an undesirable call sign for Sudbury, while North Bay could not use CIII-TV-2 as that call sign is already in use in Bancroft . These six transmitters formed

3990-508: The CRTC approved the purchase of CJOH by Baton Broadcasting Inc., with the transfer taking place May 5, 1988. In the 1990s, Slaight continued expanding the company's acquisition base, acquiring CFCN-AM , CJAY-FM (from Calgary), CFRN-AM and CJKE-FM (from Edmonton), CKZZ-FM (Vancouver), CISL (Richmond). By July 2000, Standard owned 12 stations. By early 2001, Standard owned 35 radio stations. In June 2001, Standard Broadcasting acquired 64 radio stations from Quebec's Telemedia Corp., which

4095-538: The Detroit stations. In the early 1990s, additional transmitters were added to expand Global's footprint in Ontario. The Uxbridge transmitter was Canada's most powerful UHF transmitter, operating at the maximum allowable power of 5 megawatts. It shut down in 1988, replaced by CIII-TV-41, broadcasting from the CN Tower in Toronto. For all intents and purposes, given that the station has always been based in Toronto, this

4200-516: The Dougall family, were concerned about Global threatening their local television monopoly (Dougall Media controls all of the local network television output for the Thunder Bay region and had previously lobbied the CRTC to cease CHCH-TV's cable transmissions in the mid-1990s) and pressured the CRTC to deny Global's application to build a transmitter there. However, in 2009, Dougall Media switched

4305-485: The Federal Cabinet, citing that the "decision ha[d] the potential for changing the face of Canadian broadcasting." But instead of opening a competing Ottawa station, Baton approached Slaight and offered to buy CJOH for a premium price of $ 85 million. Slaight accepted, and Baton surrendered its awarded license to the CRTC, having used the license acquisition as a bartering chip against Slaight. On April 8, 1988,

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4410-462: The Ottawa area. Both CHUM and Baton Broadcasting eagerly entered the bidding race, which encroached on Slaight's own Ottawa-based CJOH franchise. When Baton pitched "National Capital Television," a patriotic showcase for Canadiana and Canadian content viewing that would spend $ 31 million over five years on Canadian programming, the CRTC awarded Baton the Ottawa licence. Slaight, angered, appealed to

4515-546: The Toyland section of Eaton's department store. His fascination with the elegance of sleight-of-hand and what Slaight himself termed "the brilliance of inventions" resulted in a job as a performer touring Western Canada as mind reader "Will Powers". He performed a large scale magic show under the "Slaight & Co" banner. His travelling magic show would often see him spend 14 hours away from home visiting small towns to perform for $ 10. Slaight's travelling magician's show

4620-647: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in

4725-620: The UHF channel 17 allocation, Shaw had applied on October 10, 2012, to move its CIII-DT digital transmitter in Paris from VHF channel 6 to UHF channel 17, to vastly improve its coverage to the Kitchener area. Technical parameters included in the change would be a boost in power and slight decrease in height (4 kW at 311.3 meters on VHF channel 6, compared to 165 kW (average of 97 kW) at 272 meters on UHF channel 17). The UHF signal would have

4830-544: The VHF-Low band's impulse noise (compared to the VHF-High and UHF bands) causing reception issues, which would be mostly resolved with a higher frequency. The power would be increased substantially, from 3.3 kW, to 145 kW. The application states that it may be short-spaced to Buffalo, New York 's WUTV , and Plattsburgh, New York 's WPTZ , both of which may be subject to (and cause) some co-channel interference on

4935-510: The acquisition was Slaight's promise to increase Standard Broadcasting Corp.'s financial support for the promotion of the Canadian recording industry, and spending $ 15,000 at CKFM sponsoring Canadian musicians. Despite this, there were concerns among the listening public of the acquisition. Slaight revitalized CFRB by computerizing CFRB's newsroom, introducing phone-in shows, a supper-hour newscast, and more contemporary music that deviated from

5040-527: The affiliation of CHFD from CTV to Global. As a result, Global-branded programming is available in Thunder Bay, just not via CIII's province-wide network of repeaters. Similarly, in Kenora , former CTV affiliate, CJBN-TV (which was owned by Shaw), switched to full-time Global programming in late 2011 (the station would cease operations in January 2017). Initial attempts to cover Peterborough and Kingston from

5145-506: The age of 42, Slaight was tasked with restructuring Global out of the red. Global was at least $ 5 million in debt and losing an estimated 1.5 million per month. Part of Slaight's strategy to turn around Global was to broadcast movies five nights a week at the 6:30 time slot with the news broadcast at the earlier 6:00 PM time. Slaight also incorporated a number of imports and reruns from the US. While Slaight also had to lay off employees, he doubled

5250-538: The air as a full-time repeater of another station. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany , was the first regular television service in the world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to

5355-479: The amount of broadcast time devoted to news and public affairs. In 1974, Slaight authorized a rights offering of IWC's shares where proceeds would be used to finance a portion of Global Communications Ltd. Slaight also was granted approval from the network's original public investors to change voting power and repayment terms so that he could better financially negotiate for the September television line-up. It

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5460-513: The application, Global's iteration of the plan also required the launch of a new station to serve as its flagship. The station first signed on the air on January 6, 1974, as CKGN-TV (before its use by the station, the CKGN callsign had previously been used by what is now CTV owned-and-operated station CKNY-TV in North Bay from 1955 to 1962). It branded itself as the "Global Television Network,"

5565-509: The board of directors had been given permission to acquire the fledgling and debt-ridden Global Television Network that had been founded by Al Bruner . On April 15, 1974, under a restructuring and re-financing plan put forward by a group of investors, Allan Slaight purchased a 45 per cent interest in Global Communications Ltd, along with Global Ventures Holding Ltd. (45 per cent) and Seymour Epstein (10 per cent). At

5670-477: The cable application. In the wake of the ruling, Slaight distributed over $ 10 million among shareholders (the net proceeds from the sale of Global Communications Ltd.) and successfully requested to change the company's name to Radio IWC Ltd. In 1978, Allan Slaight made a bid for all the common shares outside of Radio IWC Ltd. essentially becoming IWC's largest shareholder. At the time, he owned 14 per cent, with Allpak Products Ltd. controlling 36 per cent. Under

5775-591: The channel 41 licence in 2009. Through its entire history, however, the station's main studio facility has been based in a converted factory (built 1954 for Barber Greene Canada Limited) in the Don Mills area of North York (since 1998, located in Toronto). It had hoped to be distinct from CBC and CTV by airing a number of its own Canadian-made programs. Three months later, however, many of these programs had been cancelled due to deep financial problems. It had made

5880-542: The cost of continuing to provide alternate programming to Windsor at $ 800,000 a year. At the same time, in an attempt to disclaim competition with American outlets, Global ceased sending listings to Detroit's newspapers. On August 29, 1977, the Cottam transmitter suffered an electrical fire that caused $ 300,000 in damage and took it out of commission. After considering restoring service from Cottam and finding issues with securing an appropriate transmitter and its insurance claim,

5985-502: The country for England. With Terry Bate (of Stephens & Towndrow, a sales promotion company in Canada), Don McKenzie and Saundra MacKenzie, Slaight travelled to England to establish a sales agency for Radio Caroline . Radio Caroline had been founded by Ronan O'Rahilly in 1964 to overcome the BBC 's radio broadcasting monopoly. "Unlicensed by any government for most of its early life, it

6090-536: The end of the 1980s, the noon newscast was simply titled News at Noon , the 5:30 newscast was called First News , the 6 p.m. newscast was called The Six O'Clock Report , and the 11 p.m. newscast was titled The World Tonight . Trueman left CIII in 1988. Other anchors on the station over the years have included Mike Anscombe , Beverly Thomson , John Dawe, Jane Gilbert, Peter Kent , Loretta Sullivan , Bob McAdorey , Thalia Assuras and Anne-Marie Mediwake . From 1994 to 2001, CIII also produced First National , which

6195-939: The five Hollinger-appointed directors recommending Slaight. Selkirk once again raised their offer, requested a bid extension, and issued a premature press release that angered Hollinger Argus. After a failed Supreme Court of Ontario bid by Selkirk to extend the bid deadline, the deal with Slaight proceeded. Conrad Black rejected Selkirk's bid primarily due to Slaight's willingness to sell off his current holdings to be in compliance with CRTC regulations. Black desired to sell off his broadcast holdings quickly and without entanglements. In total, Slaight acquired 84.8% of Standard shares in his tender for an estimated $ 110 million. The deal saw Slaight's acquisition of two of Canada's oldest and most popular radio stations, CFRB (1010) and adult rock CKFM (99.9) as well as radio and TV stations in Montreal, Ottawa and St. Catharines. Due to CRTC regulations at

6300-756: The fringes of CIII-DT-6's service area. This application was approved by the CRTC on July 4, 2012. CIII-DT-6 officially moved to channel 14 in mid-August 2013. Shaw Media had begun applying for permission to convert its transmitters in Northern Ontario to digital, with CFGC-TV in Sudbury and CFGC-TV-2 in North Bay on June 14, and CIII-TV-12 in Sault Ste. Marie on June 22. The application for CIII-TV-12 included switching its digital allotment from VHF channel 7 to UHF channel 15, for improved signal quality and

6405-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of

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6510-405: The launch of Sound Source Networks. Sound Source Networks was Standard Broadcasting's syndication division delivering content and targeted programming. In that same year, Allan Slaight sold CJOH-TV (Ottawa), an affiliate of CTV so he could focus on expanding his radio holdings for Standard Broadcasting. The decision was prompted by a 1987 CRTC ruling in which the CRTC awarded a new TV license for

6615-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at

6720-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on

6825-515: The morning timeslot, as well as rebroadcasts of the previous night's News Hour Final . On October 11, 2011, CIII-DT launched a three-hour weekday morning newscast titled The Morning Show , running from 6 to 9 a.m., which broadcasts from a storefront studio at Shaw Media's Bloor Street building in Downtown Toronto. The station also moved its early evening newscast, News Hour , a half-hour earlier to 5:30 p.m. to coincide with

6930-517: The network began to contemplate ways of improving its service to Windsor. Further delays were incurred when concerns arose about potential polychlorinated biphenyl contamination of the site. In 1981, Global sought permission to build a higher-power successor to the Cottam station for the Windsor–Detroit market; the CRTC denied this application in December of that year. In 1986, the CRTC approved

7035-423: The new agreement, Slaight acquired another 42 per cent (including 36% from Allpak Products Ltd and 6% from Joseph Mac-Brien), and purchased CFGM Broadcasting Ltd. (CFGM and CILQ-FM) from IWC Communications Ltd. in 1978 following the sale of his interest in the Global Television Network and IWC's cable interests. He renamed Radio IWC Ltd to Slaight Communications Inc. the following year. In 1976 Slaight applied for

7140-522: The older standards, eventually transforming CFRB into an all-talk format. Slaight himself returned to his radio roots and assumed responsibilities of CFRB's programming when his hired man, Peter Shurman , resigned. The station has been in the top rankings since that time and Slaight paid the $ 175 million debt off in nine years. Allan Slaight summed up his approach to business after the acquisition: In 1988, Slaight diversified Standard Broadcasting by branching out into production and program syndication with

7245-514: The original 1974 service: Original plans called for a seventh transmitter, CKGN-TV-36 from Maxville , near Cornwall . It would have primarily served Hawkesbury , but would have also provided a fairly strong grade B signal to Montreal. However, Global was forced to drop the Maxville transmitter from its proposal due to a CRTC moratorium on new stations in Montreal. The Cottam transmitter was beset by legal difficulties. Since it served Windsor, it

7350-478: The original NTV proposal to a network of seven UHF transmitters in Southern Ontario , whose combined footprint would have provided at least secondary broadcast coverage from Montreal to Detroit . Global Communications still aspired to eventually build out Soble's original 97-station network, and viewed the seven-transmitter Ontario chain as an interim step. However, since CHCH was no longer involved in

7455-488: The population of Ontario through a network of 12 transmitters across primarily the southern and central portions of the province (as a result, it is the de facto Global outlet for the capital city of Ottawa through repeater CIII-DT-6). Since August 29, 2022, CIII-DT serves as the master control hub for all 15 Global owned-and-operated stations across Canada. Ken Soble , the founder of CHCH-TV in Hamilton , envisioned

7560-524: The programme was groundbreaking: "Our newsroom-studio combination ... served as a model for the new CHAN-TV facilities in Vancouver, and it is currently [1979] the inspiration for Ted Turner 's new Cablenews operation in Atlanta". The CBC also looked to it for inspiration when it changed its national news format in the early 1980s. The programme also pioneered the use of "regional correspondents," usually print or radio journalists, who would regularly advise

7665-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be

7770-510: The publicly owned Anik satellite system instead of relying on private communications companies to build Canada's satellite broadcasting infrastructure, placing the NTV application in jeopardy after Power Corporation of Canada , a key investor in the plan, backed out. In 1970, one of Soble's former employees, Al Bruner , teamed up with Peter Hill to revive the application under new ownership. Bruner and Hill's group, Global Communications, scaled back

7875-479: The radio industry, which, through the next five decades, would become his life. "I had never been inside a radio station before. But after one short visit to CHAB, I realized radio was what I wanted to do with my life," Slaight said in a 2002 interview. Slaight arrived at the University of Saskatchewan in autumn 1949 to uphold a bargain he made with his father. In exchange for working one year at CHAB, Slaight

7980-486: The reins of day-to-day operations in 2001 to Dave Coriat, CFO, and son Gary Slaight, CEO, Allan Slaight was quick to point out that his authority still prevailed. "If I really resist something, it generally doesn't happen," Slaight admitted. Coriat agreed when interviewed, citing Allan Slaight's impeccable timing and business instincts, calling Slaight the "ultimate entrepreneur" who can quickly calculate potential return and "controlled risk-taking." "He's not about to blow

8085-554: The relocation of the Cottam transmitter to Stevenson . Some time after this, the callsign CIII-TV-22 from the now-defunct Uxbridge transmitter were reassigned to the Stevenson transmitter, which then was activated in November 1988. The transmitter is located southwest of Wheatley , between Wheatley and Leamington, but its signal is aimed northeast (towards Chatham–Kent ), and barely reaches Windsor and Detroit – presumably to protect

8190-416: The station about stories in their part of Ontario. This allowed field producers and a Global crew to target key stories of the day. "This is the main reason that much of Global's ex-urban coverage has been so effective", Trueman wrote in 1979. During the 1980s, Global greatly expanded its news operation, with a 90-minute block of news starting at 5:30 p.m., as well as newscasts at noon and 11 p.m. By

8295-620: The station from Canwest Global in 2010 and Corus, in turn, acquired CIII from Shaw Media in 2016. CIII-DT presently broadcasts 30 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 hours, 35 minutes each weekday and 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition to its main news department in Toronto, the station also operates a news bureau at the National Press Centre in Ottawa . CIII does not employ its own sports reporters; sports news content

8400-638: The station would play music during the day that would appeal to housewives and drivers who found number one station CFRB too bland. By 1960, Slaight had been promoted to become CHUM-AM's Program Director, a position that he held until 1964. His passion for programming served him well when in 1965, Slaight was appointed to become the Vice President of Radio CHUM-1050 Ltd and elected to the board. Responsible for all programming and operations of CHUM-AM and its sister station CHUM-FM, Slaight remained with CHUM-1050 Ltd until 1966 when he and his family left

8505-597: The thousands of volumes and is one of the single largest collections on the craft. Slaight is the author of a number of magic titles including Stewart James in Print: The First Fifty Years (1989), The James File (3 Book Set) (2000), the largest work ever published on magic, let alone on the magic of one man, and Essential Stewart James (2007). Slaight co-hosted an annual magicians conference, 31 Faces North, with performing arts organization Magicana (Artistic Director David Ben ) every summer. It

8610-549: The time, the deal also required Slaight to sell Q107 (managed by son Gary) and CFGM (managed by son Greg) to Westcom Radio Group of Vancouver. Under CRTC rules at that time, broadcasters were prohibited from owning two AM or two FM stations in the same city. The acquisition of Standard Broadcasting brought CFRB, CKFM, CJAD-AM, CJFM-FM, Capital Radio in London, CJOH-TV, and CKTB and CJQR (St. Catharines) within his domain in addition to his then-current holdings. What emerged from

8715-479: The world of magic were acknowledged by Magicana when he was presented with Spins and Needles: The Magic of Allan Slaight , a hardcover book celebrating 62 of Slaight's own magic tricks. Slaight began his broadcasting career in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1948 at age 17 as an on-air news reporter and announcer for his father's station CHAB . His late-night jazz program, Spins and Needles , whet his appetite for

8820-526: Was 19 and with three young children to support ( Gary b. 1951, Greg b. 1953, Jan Marie b. 1954), combined his entrepreneurial spirit and his showmanship savvy to enter the world of radio. While Slaight focused his talent for showmanship in the realm of broadcasting, the magic continued to be ever-present in Slaight's life. In an interview with The Globe and Mail in 2005, Slaight showcased his extensive library of magic trick books. The collection numbers in

8925-500: Was CIII's main transmitter and Global's flagship even before the station officially moved its licence to Toronto in 2009. This was the case with the Uxbridge transmitter as well. Starting in 2008, CIII began sending its signal to the Toronto transmitter first, since the Paris transmitter did not yet have digital capability. Other transmitters were gradually introduced, including (launch dates in parentheses): On August 28, 1996, Global

9030-574: Was a pirate radio station that never actually became illegal, although after the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act 1967 it became illegal for a British subject to associate with it." The station operated beyond the 12-mile limit off the English coast broadcasting from International Waters on a ship and aired rock music and commercials (not broadcast by BBC Radio ) into London. Slaight's purpose in relocating to England

9135-464: Was a battle for Slaight as Selkirk Communications Ltd. also submitted a tender for the company. Scuttled by the CRTC, which ruled that Selkirk was ineligible to buy Standard, Selkirk redoubled its efforts and came back with a private bid that was higher than Slaight's. Selkirk's offer divided the Hollinger's Board of Directors with the 12 independent members suggesting tendering the bid to Selkirk and

9240-531: Was anchored by Peter Kent and aired at 6:30 p.m. weeknights. In 2001, the program was replaced by Canada Tonight , which in turn was replaced that fall with Global National , anchored by Kevin Newman ; it originated from CHAN's facility in Vancouver before moving to a dedicated studio in Ottawa in February 2008. In January 2009, CIII canceled its weekday morning newscast Global News Morning , along with

9345-605: Was changed to CIII-TV in January 1984, in accordance with its 10th anniversary of broadcasting. The Windsor / Cottam transmitter would be an exception to the rebroadcasters that were also assigned the CIII calls that month for a few years as it continued to be identified in CRTC documents as CKGN-TV-1, perhaps because of licensing issues with nearby broadcasters in the Detroit market (the CKGN calls are now used by an FM radio station in Kapuskasing, Ontario ). Shaw Media purchased

9450-400: Was considered to be part of the Detroit market, in which Global did not hold the rights for all of its programming. While Global initially was able to supply alternate programming to the Cottam site, its initial financial difficulties prompted it to instead begin showing a slide during preempted shows, which often made up significant portions of the network's prime time lineup. The network quoted

9555-445: Was during this time that Slaight proposed loosening CRTC Canadian content quotas for independent broadcast stations compared to other affiliates and vigorously advocating for rules that would benefit smaller broadcasters. Slaight, for example publicly "oppose[d] the intrusion of any Canadian provincial government into any sector of Canadian broadcasting," when a probe on violence on television was launched for what Slaight considered to be

9660-473: Was formerly provided by sports specialty channel Sportsnet 360 . Early on, its flagship news program Global News was developed under the guidance of Bill Cunningham , a veteran of CBC News ; in the beginning, the newscast was anchored by Peter Trueman in Toronto and Peter Desbarats in Ottawa. During the news department's early years, its newscasts were one of the most successful and important programs that CKGN/CIII had. Trueman has noted in his memoir that

9765-569: Was given CRTC approval to add a new transmitter at Cornwall. Global had proposed to use VHF channel 11 at Cornwall but instead channel 11 was awarded to Hamilton's CHCH-TV in Ottawa that same day. Another option was to operate a Global transmitter on a UHF channel in Cornwall which was never launched. CIII is not available in Thunder Bay but the market is served by independently owned affiliate CHFD-DT , owned by Dougall Media . CHFD's owners,

9870-401: Was given for Slaight Broadcasting Ltd. to purchase CFGM Broadcasting Ltd. from owners John Graham and Stewart Coxford. The following year in 1971, Allan Slaight took ownership of CFGM. CFGM, at the time, was Canada's first full-time country and western music station. It wasn't until an application was made in 1976 that CFMJ's frequency was moved to 1320 kHz. On July 13, 1972, Slaight

9975-735: Was granted permission by Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to acquire 80 per cent holdings of Montreal-based station CFOX-AM. Upon ownership, Slaight changed the format to "new country music" to match CFGM. After receiving federal permission on May 22, 1973, Slaight Broadcasting Ltd. merged with IWC Communications (originally Industrial Wire and Cable) on July 1, 1973. The merger resulted in Slaight acquiring other cable media systems in Mississauga , Barrie , Orillia , and Sarnia -based radio station CHOK , while retaining CFGM Broadcasting Ltd. and Radio CFOX Inc. Slaight had previously bought into IWC in 1970, becoming

10080-519: Was no doubt inspired from his early days in the 1940s performing for his grandfather's staff at a local bank in Galt for $ 2, or his regular performances at conventions and at the Rotary Club in Moose Jaw. So prominent was magic in young Slaight's life, that he toyed with the idea of performing on a permanent basis, and would have done so, Slaight later admitted, had it been profitable. Instead, Slaight, married his wife Ada Mitchell in 1950 when he

10185-506: Was not for sale. Slaight nonetheless saw the endeavour as an exercise to expose waste at the CBC. "But if we can expose what some of us see as scandalous waste at the CBC, I think we will have done a decent thing for the taxpayers." In July 1985, Allan Slaight acquired Conrad Black and Montegu Black 's Hollinger Argus Ltd .'s 49 per cent stake in Standard Broadcasting Corp. Acquiring Standard Broadcasting Corp.

10290-646: Was owned by the de Gaspe Beaubien family. The station acquisitions included four stations in London, Ontario, three in Hamilton, Ontario and three in St. Catharines, Ontario. Two months later, Standard Broadcasting sold 29 of those stations before receiving regulatory approval for the original Telemedia buy. The acquisition quadrupled Standard's holdings. At that time, Standard's portfolio included radio stations, video distribution and duplication, electronic game distribution, advertising, post-production services in video and audio and retail marketing. While Slaight had handed

10395-411: Was possibly the last over the air analogue transmitter to rebroadcast Global in Ontario. It is unclear what Industry Canada will now use VHF channel 11, the spectrum that had been allocated for CIII-TV-2 digital, for. Despite gaining approval to close CIII-DT-27, it remains on air. Download coordinates as: A series of rebroadcast transmitters relay the CIII signal to much of Ontario. Most of these use

10500-535: Was relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 65, as its original digital channel was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to UHF channel 41. Global also transitioned CIII-TV in Paris, CIII-TV-6 in Ottawa and CIII-TV-7 in Midland (serving Barrie) to digital on August 31, 2011. CIII-TV-22 in Stevenson (serving Windsor and Chatham) converted to digital on August 8, 2011. The transmitter operates at

10605-500: Was required to attend university. While at the University of Saskatchewan, Slaight worked as a columnist ( A Sap's Fables ) and jazz reviewer for the college newspaper, The Sheaf . Slaight dropped out of his studies at the University of Saskatchewan after his first year and balanced his burgeoning broadcasting career with his travelling magic show. In 1950, Slaight and his wife Ada moved to Edmonton , Alberta . Unable to find

10710-612: Was temporarily reduced to prevent an overload caused by high VSWR at the site. On December 4, 2020, the CRTC approved a request from Corus Entertainment to shut down CIII-DT-27 and CIII-TV-2 (among other Global retransmitters) in favour of multiplexing CIII-DT-27 via CHEX-DT and CIII-TV-2 via CKWS-DT Kingston. This decision saw the CRTC abandon a promise made in 2010 to have the owners of Global Television transition CIII-TV-2 to digital. CIII-TV-2 continued to operate as an NTSC analogue retransmitter until August 31, 2022. The CIII-TV-2 transmitter that operated out of Vennachar for close to 50 years

10815-467: Was to be appointed President and Managing Director. In 1970, Slaight founded Slaight Broadcasting Ltd. and raised $ 2.5 million to buy a radio station CFGM-1310 AM (previously known under the call sign CJRH and now known as CFMJ:AM 640 ). Slaight had put a second mortgage on his house and sought out investment partners including Gordon Lightfoot , by guaranteeing them a generous return on investment should they back him. On December 14, 1970, approval

10920-488: Was to co-found a consulting firm for the communications field in terms of sales, merchandising and advertising of what would be, a burgeoning field in English commercial radio. But the acceptance of commercial radio was still years away in England and Slaight returned to Toronto in 1967. Slaight returned to Toronto in 1967 with a renewed passion to own his own radio station. Upon his return, he formed Allan Slaight Limited,

11025-547: Was with Global News at Noon anchor Rosey Edeh . Neither anchor works with the station anymore. CIII-TV-41 in Toronto began broadcasting its digital signal in July 2009. The station's analogue signal, over UHF channel 41, was shut down on August 31, 2011, the official date on which Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory markets transitioned from analogue to digital broadcasts . CIII's digital signal

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