Editing Global Television Network (section)

===Launch===
Global's original prime time schedule included [[Patrick Watson (journalist)|Patrick Watson]]'s documentary series ''[[Witness to Yesterday]]'', [[Pierre Berton]]'s political debate show ''[[The Great Debate (Canadian TV series)|The Great Debate]]'', a Canadian edition of [[Bernard Braden]]'s British consumer affairs newsmagazine ''The Braden Beat'', [[William Shatner]]'s film talk show ''[[Flick Flack]]'', Sunday night [[Toronto Toros]] hockey games and a nightly variety series called ''[[Everything Goes (Canadian TV series)|Everything Goes]]'',<ref name=scoffers/> as well as a few imported American series including ''[[Chopper One]]'', ''[[Dirty Sally]]'' and ''[[Doc Elliot]]''. In March, the station drew a formal complaint from MP [[James McGrath (Canadian politician)|James McGrath]] against its airing of the 1969 Western film ''[[Heaven with a Gun]]'', as the film featured scenes of violence which McGrath considered inappropriate.<ref>"MP protests Global film". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', February 15, 1974.</ref>

The station ran into a financial crisis within just three months. Due to the CRTC decision, it was forced to launch at midseason. Many companies had already allocated their advertising budgets for the season and had little money left to buy time on the newly minted network,<ref name=lurches>"Fledgling network jumps from crisis to crisis in 4-month drama staged in full public view". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', September 5, 1974.</ref> and even some of the advertisers who had booked time on the network backed out in light of the [[1973 oil crisis]].<ref>"Deposed Al Bruner lost Global but kept his class". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', May 8, 1974.</ref> In addition, the short-lived American adoption of year-round [[daylight saving time]] in January 1974, and the Ontario government's refusal to follow suit, had unexpectedly forced ''Everything Goes'', promoted as the network's flagship show, into airing directly opposite ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'' and thus attracting disastrous ratings.<ref name=shakeup>"Global shakeup displaces Bruner". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', March 23, 1974.</ref> As a result of the crisis, the station quickly lost access to its line of credit.<ref name=lurches/>

Unable to meet daily expenses, Global initially approached potential bidders including [[CITY-DT|Channel Seventynine]], [[Denison Mines]], [[Standard Broadcasting]] and the [[Jim Pattison Group]],<ref name=lurches/> and was soon bailed out by IWC Communications, owned by broadcaster [[Allan Slaight]], and Global Ventures Western Ltd., a syndicate which included Winnipeg movie theater owner [[Paul Morton (television executive)|Paul Morton]] and [[Izzy Asper]], a [[Manitoba]] politician turned broadcaster.<ref name=longtermvalue>"Global's long term value impresses takeover team". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', April 20, 1974.</ref> Asper's company, CanWest Capital, was in the process of obtaining the licence for what would become [[CKND-DT|CKND-TV]] in Winnipeg, which planned to carry some of Global's programs under a syndication deal.<ref name=longtermvalue/>