Editing Global Television Network (section)

===Other Global-branded channels===
{{Main|E! (Canadian TV system)}}
Global previously maintained a secondary [[television system]] similar to [[CTV 2]]. CH was originally launched on February 12, 2001, by [[Canwest|Canwest Global Communications]] after acquiring the [[Western International Communications]] properties in 2000. The system was launched in September of that year when the [[2001 Vancouver TV realignment|large network shuffle in Vancouver occurred]], only to provide a secondary schedule parallel to Canwest's larger Global Television Network. It initially focused on airing programs from the U.S. broadcast networks that could not fit on Global's own schedule, to avail of [[simultaneous substitution]] opportunities. The system became "E!" in fall 2007, as a result of a deal with [[Comcast]] to carry programming from that company's U.S.-based [[E!|E!: Entertainment Television]], although it continued to air much the same American network series in primetime and the afternoon.

The E! television system ceased operations on September 1, 2009, due to low ratings and corporate financial difficulties that eventually led to Canwest filing for [[bankruptcy protection]] and selling its properties to [[Shaw Media]]; the E! [[Owned-and-operated station|O&O stations]] experienced varied fates ([[CHCH-DT|CHCH]] [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]] and [[CJNT-DT|CJNT]] Montreal were sold to [[Channel Zero (company)|Channel Zero]], [[CHEK-DT|CHEK]] [[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]] was sold to an employee-led group; [[CHBC-DT|CHBC]] [[Kelowna]] remained with Canwest and was converted into a Global O&O, and [[CHCA-TV|CHCA]] [[Red Deer, Alberta|Red Deer]] ceased operations outright), while the Pattison Group stations affiliated with the [[Rogers Media]]-owned [[Citytv]] system.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/media-news/out-with-the-e-in-with-the-new-at-canwest-upfront-8989|title=Out with the E!, in with the new at Canwest upfront|work=Marketing Magazine|date=June 3, 2009|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-date=March 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316110808/http://www.marketingmag.ca/news/media-news/out-with-the-e-in-with-the-new-at-canwest-upfront-8989|url-status=live}}</ref> As E!, local news and other regional programming, as well as most local community sponsorships on the O&O stations, used local branding (using the callsign branding scheme common with Canadian stations not owned by a network or television system). This decision was at least partly made to avoid confusion with ''[[E! News]]'', but likely intended to ensure that local newscasts were not perceived as celebrity-oriented. E! in the U.S. later reached an agreement to bring the channel's brand and programming to Bell Media's [[Category A services|Category 2]] [[specialty channel]] Star! (which had a similar format to E! U.S. and had carried some of its programming prior to the 2007 rebranding of CH), rebranding it as a [[E! (Canadian TV channel)|Canadian version of E!]] on November 29, 2010.<ref>[http://www.ctvmedia.ca/Star/releases/release.asp?id=13106&yyyy=2010 CTV and Comcast International Media Group Partner to Bring E!, World's Top Entertainment Brand, Back To Canada] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322072129/http://www.ctvmedia.ca/Star/releases/release.asp?id=13106&yyyy=2010|date=March 22, 2011}} CTVglobemedia press release, November 1, 2010.</ref>

Other Global-branded channels included the [[Global Reality Channel]] that was devoted to reality shows launched in 2010 and ceased operations in 2012,<ref>[http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2010/28/c6392.html Canwest Expands Specialty Portfolio with the Launch of Global Reality Channel] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609184116/http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2010/28/c6392.html |date=June 9, 2011 }}; CNW; April 28, 2010</ref> [[DTour|Prime]], [[DejaView]] and [[Crime & Investigation (Canadian TV channel)|Mystery TV]], which the latter three channels formerly wore the previous Global logo.