Editing Global Television Network (section)

===Global Communications===
[[File:Global original.PNG|thumb|left|150px|The original logo (1974–1997) of Global featured a stylized "G".]]
Bruner was fired from Niagara Television in 1969, purportedly because his efforts to rescue the network application were leading him to neglect his other duties with the company's existing media operations.<ref>"Four firings at third network". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', February 22, 1969.</ref> He then put together another investment team to form Global Communications, which carried the network application forward thereafter.<ref>"Al Bruner, 63, TV innovator Global network founder dies". ''[[Toronto Star]]'', August 29, 1987.</ref> By 1970, the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|Canadian Radio and Television Commission]] had put out a formal call for "third" stations in several major cities. Global Communications put forward a revised application under which the network would launch with transmitters only in [[Ontario]], as an interim step toward the eventual buildout of the entire network originally envisioned by Soble.<ref name=satelliteplans/> Because Niagara Television and CHCH were no longer involved in the proposal, the 1970 application also requested a licence to launch a new station in Toronto as the chain's flagship.

The network licence was approved by the CRTC on July 21, 1972.<ref name=approved>"Six-station TV network is approved". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', July 22, 1972.</ref> The group was granted a six-transmitter network in [[Southern Ontario]], stretching from [[Windsor, Ontario|Windsor]] to [[Ottawa]].<ref name=scoffers>"A new TV network comes to life as the old scoffers just fade away". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', January 5, 1974.</ref> They had also sought a seventh transmitter in [[Maxville, Ontario|Maxville]] that could reach [[Montreal]],<ref name=scoffers/> but were turned down because of a CRTC moratorium on new English stations in the Montreal market.<ref name=approved/> The transmitters would all be fed from a central studio in Toronto.<ref name=scoffers/> The group promised a high level of [[Canadian content]] and agreed not to accept local advertising.

The station's initial plan was to broadcast only during prime time hours from 5 p.m. to midnight, while leasing daytime hours to the [[Ontario Educational Communications Authority]] to broadcast educational programming.<ref name=approved/> However, the offer never came to fruition, with the OECA opting instead to expand what would eventually become [[TVOntario]] by launching its own transmitters.{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}}

The new Global Television Network, with the callsign [[CIII-DT|CKGN-TV]] (now CIII-DT), launched on January 6, 1974<ref name=scoffers/> from studios located at a former factory in the [[Don Mills]] neighbourhood in [[North York]] (now in Toronto) at 6&nbsp;p.m.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/networks/networks_Global_Television.html|title=Global Television Network|publisher=[[Canadian Communications Foundation]]|access-date=November 30, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123133327/http://broadcasting-history.ca/networks/networks_Global_Television.html|archive-date=January 23, 2009}}</ref> local time. Global remains based there today. Although the Ontario station has always been based in Toronto, its main transmitter was licensed to Paris, Ontario; halfway between [[Regional Municipality of Waterloo|Kitchener-Waterloo]] and Hamilton, transmitting on Channel 6, until 2009. Repeating transmitters were originally located near [[Windsor, Ontario]] on Channel 22; [[Sarnia]], Channel 29, [[Uxbridge, Ontario]] on Channel 22 to serve the metro Toronto area; Bancroft, on Channel 2; and [[Hull, Quebec]] to cover the Ottawa area, on Channel 6.