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95-678: WVNY (channel 22) is a television station licensed to Burlington, Vermont , United States, serving the Burlington, Vermont– Plattsburgh, New York market as an affiliate of ABC . It is owned by Mission Broadcasting , which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Nexstar Media Group , owner of Fox affiliate WFFF-TV (channel 44, also licensed to Burlington), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios on Mountain View Drive in Colchester, Vermont ; WVNY's transmitter

190-425: A barter in some cases. Global Television Network This is an accepted version of this page 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

285-494: A "killer wheat" episode and episodes set in Northern Quebec and Halifax. Series initially intended for the U.S. and international market are sometimes called "industrial" productions and largely disappeared with the collapse of the international action hour market. From the late-1990s to the mid-2000s, Global aired somewhat more identifiably Canadian entertainment programming, including the long-running finance drama Traders ,

380-650: A CRTC moratorium on new English stations in the Montreal market. The transmitters would all be fed from a central studio in Toronto. 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. However,

475-576: A brief to the Board of Broadcast Governors in 1966 proposing a national satellite -fed network. Under the plan, Soble's company would launch Canada's first broadcast satellite, and would use it to relay the programming of CHCH to 96 new transmitters across Canada. Soble died in December of that year; his widow Frances took over as president of Niagara Television, while former CTV executive Michael Hind-Smith and Niagara Television vice-president Al Bruner handled

570-776: A common design element in many Canwest logos, was subsequently removed from other properties owned or sponsored by the company over time. On April 10, 2008, the network announced that its Toronto and Vancouver stations would start broadcasting their over-the-air signals in those markets in high definition . CIII and CHAN officially started transmitting in HD on April 18, 2008. The network has also launched digital signals at its stations in Calgary ( CICT-DT ) and Edmonton ( CITV-DT ) as of July 2009. Following Canwest seeking creditor protection in late 2009, Shaw Communications acquired Canwest's broadcasting assets on October 27, 2010, and folded them into

665-571: 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, and even some of the advertisers who had booked time on the network backed out in light of the 1973 oil crisis . In addition, the short-lived American adoption of year-round daylight saving time in January 1974, and

760-611: A full-power ABC affiliate. This turned out to be the case for Enosburg, Vermont , in Franklin County . The channel 22 position was given to CBS affiliate WCAX-TV for its digital operation. As a part of the repacking process following the 2016-2017 FCC incentive auction , WVNY relocated to VHF channel 7 on July 3, 2020, using PSIP to display its virtual channel number as 22. WVNY was formerly seen on analog repeater W09BB (channel 9) in Schroon Lake, New York . The translator had

855-545: A joint news department for the two stations. On March 3, 2008, WFFF added a weeknight and Saturday broadcast at 7 on WVNY known as Fox 44 Local News on ABC . As a result, this station became first in the area to offer local news in the time slot. The move to launch the show was due in part to tough competition of newscasts at 6 seen on WCAX-TV and WPTZ. As is the case on WFFF-TV, the WVNY broadcasts are produced in high definition. The Saturday edition eventually moved to 6:30 which has been

950-676: A main schedule, apart from news. Even before the WIC purchase, the Global stations had widely varying program lineups, and the WIC purchase only exacerbated the differences. For example, CHAN held the British Columbia rights to many shows that aired on CTV until 2001, except for The Oprah Winfrey Show . Factors influencing the stations' programming include time zone differences, local programming, and ratings for non-Global shows. Global has built its business on profitable entertainment programming produced in

1045-415: 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

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1140-549: A network. Accordingly, on August 18, 1997, Canwest scrubbed all local branding from its stations and rebranded them as the "Global Television Network", the brand previously used solely by the Ontario outlet. On the same day, CKMI disaffiliated from CBC, set up rebroadcasters in Montreal and Sherbrooke , and became the Quebec outlet of the newly minted network. It also built a new studio in Montreal and moved most of its operations there, though

1235-449: A new division, Shaw Media , of which Global is the flagship. Canwest's newspaper assets had been sold off earlier in the year as Postmedia Network . On April 1, 2016, as part of a corporate re-organization (marketed as being an acquisition), Shaw Media was subsumed by Shaw's sister company Corus Entertainment . In television listings such as TV Guide , where space limitations usually require television networks to be referred to by

1330-563: A new facility on Market Square, off Shelburne Road/ US 7 in South Burlington in 1980. From its inception until the late 1990s, channel 22 competed against fellow ABC affiliate WMTW-TV in Portland, Maine ; WMTW's analog transmitter on Mount Washington covered most of Vermont. WMTW had been the ABC affiliate of record for the market until WVNY-TV signed on, and continued to be offered on many of

1425-399: A nightly variety series called Everything Goes , 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 against its airing of the 1969 Western film Heaven with a Gun , as the film featured scenes of violence which McGrath considered inappropriate. The station ran into

1520-526: A noon newscast, supper hour newscasts of between 30 and 90 minutes and a half-hour to hour-long late evening newscast. Global-owned stations in certain major markets also carry locally based public affairs programs under the Focus brand. In addition, Corus also operates several Global-branded news/talk radio stations across Canada under the Global News Radio moniker. Global does not have what can be called

1615-537: A number of new executives, all formerly of various U.S. media firms, leading to a major overhaul of Global announced in December 2005. The most obvious change was a new logo, replacing the "crescent" with a new " greater than " logo, with the Global wordmark in a new font, that was introduced on February 5, 2006 (coinciding with Global's broadcast of Super Bowl XL ). New logos and graphics were designed for news and network promotions, and several newscasts received new timeslots and formats. The crescent, which had been used as

1710-548: A regular TV antenna and a digital tuner (included in most new television sets) on the following channels: The above noted transmitters were converted to digital by August 31, 2011, as part of Canada's over-the-air transition deadline in mandatory markets from analog to digital. As part of its purchase by Shaw Communications in 2011, Shaw committed to converting all of the network's over-the-air analog transmitters to digital by 2016. The Global network has long been much more decentralized than either CBC or CTV. For most programs, there

1805-546: A secondary system known as CH (rebranded as E! in 2007 in a partnership with the American channel of the same name ), although financial pressures forced Canwest to sell or fold the E! stations in 2009. Full network service is still not available over-the-air in Newfoundland and Labrador . However, CJON, having disaffiliated from CTV in 2002, now clears the vast majority of Global programming in that province, most recently adding

1900-571: A short time. Eventually, WVNY added repeater station W60AF on channel 60 in Malone. 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

1995-487: A syndication deal. A considerable number of programs featured on Global's schedule were cancelled in the spring of 1974. By that fall, it was obvious that Global's original model was unsustainable, and it was forced to pick up a large amount of American programming to fill in the gaps. With American imports filling as much of the schedule as Canadian content rules would allow (60% Canadian overall, 50% Canadian in prime time), Global had effectively become "another CTV ." With

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2090-785: A third national network. He started by launching CFRE-DT in Regina and CFSK-DT in Saskatoon , and winning a legal battle for CKVU-DT in Vancouver during the second half of the 1980s. He also acquired the fledgling CIHF-DT in Halifax in the early 1990s. Canwest's stations now reached seven of Canada's ten provinces. The Canwest stations purchased many of their programs collectively, and consequently had similar – although not identical – broadcast schedules. They did not share common branding, however – although stations were sometimes indicated as being part of

2185-490: A three-letter abbreviation, the abbreviations "GLO", "GLB" or "GTV" are commonly used, depending on the publication. None of these abbreviations has any standing as an official name for the network, however – the network's own shortform name for itself is always "Global". Global News is the news and current affairs division of the Global Television Network, which is based in Vancouver. National programs broadcast by

2280-640: A transmitter southeast of the town's Severance section and did not have an application to air a digital signal; its license has since been canceled. During the analog era and for a time after the digital transition , WVNY operated five additional repeater signals. Originally, WIXT-TV in Syracuse, New York , served Massena and Malone . On September 23, 1987, this was replaced by new sign-on WFYF in Watertown . However, both stations were available in Massena and Malone for

2375-425: 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

2470-496: 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,

2565-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as 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

2660-474: Is located on Vermont's highest peak, Mount Mansfield . Like other network stations serving Burlington and Plattsburgh, WVNY has a large audience in southern Quebec , Canada. This includes Montreal , a city that is 10 times more populous than the station's entire U.S. viewing area, as well as the Montérégie region. Most Vidéotron systems in southern Quebec carry WVNY as their ABC affiliate. WVNY-TV signed on

2755-534: Is no "network" feed per se , and in effect every commercial break is a station break. National advertising is certainly available, but such ads are seamlessly integrated into local ad blocks. In fact, it is not uncommon to see different lengths of commercial breaks from one station to the next even during identical programming. This occurs even though all Global stations have had their master control operations centralized in Calgary since fall 2006. From 2010 to 2016, with

2850-792: 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

2945-429: Is presented on-screen in a system known as "Sky Tracker HD Triple Doppler". Weather forecasts from WFFF-TV can be heard on WSNO (AM 1450), WMOO (FM 92.1)/W257AU (FM 99.3), WDOT (FM 95.7), WWFY (FM 100.9), WCPV (FM 101.3), WMUD (FM 101.5), WTHK (FM 100.7)/W264AB (FM 104.7), and WRFK (FM 107.1). The station's signal is multiplexed : WVNY on digital channel 13 became the first VHF high definition station in

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3040-825: The 1987 and 1988 Stanley Cup playoffs , Global aired NHL games syndicated by Carling O'Keefe . Global was the longtime broadcaster of National Football League football games in Canada, an association that ended in 2007 when CTV outbid Global for the NFL broadcast package. The network was a long-time broadcaster of PGA Tour events. Beyond event coverage, many Global stations were well known for local late-night sports highlights shows, such as Sportsline in Ontario, Sports Page in Vancouver (later moved to former sister station CHEK-TV ), 2&7 Sports at 11 in Calgary and Sports Night in Edmonton. Most of these programs were later unified under

3135-643: The Global Sports brand. However, due to declining audiences, by fall 2005 all but the Ontario program had been cancelled, although stations continued to cover sports in their local newscasts. Global Ontario's sports program was finally cancelled in January 2007; at that point, the station closed its sports department entirely, and for a time outsourced sports coverage to Sportsnet and The Score / Sportsnet 360 . Some Global O&Os outside of Ontario (such as CHAN Vancouver and CITV Edmonton) continue to feature locally produced sports segments on their local newscasts. On

3230-511: The Jim Pattison Group , 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 and Izzy Asper , a Manitoba politician turned broadcaster. Asper's company, CanWest Capital, owned CKND-TV in Winnipeg, which was already carrying some of Global's programs under

3325-540: The Post and other Canwest papers made frequent appearances on Global's news programs, passengers on the now-defunct serial drama Train 48 habitually read the Post , and Global programs were promoted in Canwest newspapers. However, this practice has now been largely abandoned, particularly after Canwest's breakup in 2010. In late 2004, with CTV beginning to dominate the ratings, Canwest reorganized its Canadian operations and hired

3420-614: The Sportsnet -produced Fox Soccer News . In 2015, Global broadcast coverage of the Canada West conference's university football championship, including coverage of one semi-final game, and the Hardy Cup game the following week. The telecasts were produced through Shaw TV 's Canada West Football on Shaw package. Global streams live and on-demand programming via its website and apps for mobile devices and digital media players . In 2020,

3515-618: The Toronto Blizzard soccer team and produced and aired coverage of the team's games in-house. The team was not a success on the field, in attendance or ratings, and Global sold the franchise in 1981 but continued to broadcast seven games a year until 1983. Aside from its brief experiment with soccer, the Global network has never had an in-house sports production division as do CBC, CTV/TSN, & Citytv/Sportsnet. Network sports broadcasts are either simulcast with American networks or outsourced to independent producers such as Molstar . During

3610-500: The United States and Soviet Union . International TV Corporation sold WEZF-TV to Citadel Communications in 1982. As the station was no longer co-owned with WEZF radio, on November 4 of that year, the call letters were switched back to WVNY so as to comply with a since-repealed FCC regulation prohibiting TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different ownership from sharing the same call sign. WVNY moved its operations to

3705-405: 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 a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station

3800-534: 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

3895-431: The reality series Big Brother . Global, like all Canadian broadcast outlets, benefits from Canada's simultaneous substitution (or "simsub") regulations, which allow content owners to control programming rights for a particular show in Canada. When an American broadcast network is broadcasting the same show at the same time that Global is (such as the programs mentioned above), Canadian cable subscribers may only watch

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3990-615: The "CanWest Global System" as a secondary brand, throughout the 1980s and early 1990s they each retained their own branding and continued to function as an ownership group of independent stations rather than as a fully unified network. In 1997, Canwest bought controlling interest in the CBC affiliate in Quebec City , CKMI-TV , from TVA , which retained a 49% interest until 2002. With the acquisition of CKMI, Canwest now had enough coverage of Canada that it seemed logical to rebrand its station group as

4085-590: The 1980s. As a result, Global continued its long-standing secondary affiliations in those cities on independent stations CICT-TV and CITV-TV , respectively. Similarly, Global lacked a full-time station in St. John's , where Global programming was carried by longtime CTV affiliate CJON-TV . In 2000, Canwest acquired the conventional television assets of Western International Communications (WIC). WIC's stations in Calgary, Edmonton and Lethbridge had been airing some Global programs since 1988, and those stations formally joined

4180-410: The 1990s, WVNY frequently dropped network programming in favor of infomercials . As a result, several ABC shows were never seen in Montreal except on satellite . However, in the late 1990s, WVNY began airing the entire ABC schedule, which continues to this day. The only exceptions were from 2003 – 2005 , as it would preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the same purpose (at first only the last half-hour of

4275-503: The British-Canadian animated comedy Bob and Margaret , the police procedural drama Blue Murder , the nightly improvised drama Train 48 , the sitcom The Jane Show and the reality show My Fabulous Gay Wedding . In 2003, Global signed comedian Mike Bullard , host of the nightly Open Mike with Mike Bullard on CTV and The Comedy Network , to a multi-year contract for a new nightly talk show on Global, but that series

4370-584: The Global Television broadcast, even when trying to view the American stations. This law gives them double exposure for their content and a larger share of advertising revenue, effectively blocking American border cities from access to the Canadian market. This was done to help give money to the networks to fund Canadian content development. Global is not the only Canadian broadcaster to use simsubs; nonetheless, some complaints, specific to Global, have arisen due to

4465-450: The Global apps were relaunched to include streaming for subscribers of most of Corus Entertainment's specialty channels, mirroring a similar move announced by CTV. In October 2004, Global launched a 1080i high definition simulcast feed of its Toronto station CIII-TV called Global HD and started airing select American programs in HD; some Canadian series such as Falcon Beach eventually began to be included among its HD programs. At

4560-487: 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. As a result of the crisis, the station quickly lost access to its line of credit. Unable to meet daily expenses, Global initially approached potential bidders including Channel Seventynine , Denison Mines , Standard Broadcasting and

4655-423: The Ontario station has always been based in Toronto, its main transmitter was licensed to Paris, Ontario; halfway between 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

4750-450: The Ottawa area, on Channel 6. Global's original prime time schedule included Patrick Watson 's documentary series Witness to Yesterday , Pierre Berton 's political debate show 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

4845-627: 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

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4940-629: The United States and has long been criticized for not investing enough in Canadian content . Canadian programming carried on the network, such as a revival of 1960s American science fiction series The Outer Limits , or the Chicago-set drama Zoe Busiek: Wild Card , has often avoided Canadian themes, presumably to focus on sales to United States and international cable or syndication markets – although Psi Factor did include Canadian themes, including

5035-502: The air on August 19, 1968, and aired an analog signal on UHF channel 22. It was the first station in the area to air live broadcasts in color. The station initially operated from studios located on Hegeman Avenue in Colchester. On September 3, 1974, it changed its call letters to WEZF-TV to match its sister FM radio station . WEZF-TV was the host station for the 1980 Winter Olympics and the famous " Miracle on Ice " hockey game between

5130-484: The area's cable systems well into the 1980s. From 1985 until 1996 , WVNY dropped ABC's General Hospital in favor of cartoons ; the soap opera could still be seen in the area via CFCF-TV in Montreal, which has long been carried on Champlain Valley cable systems. WVNY also preempted some of ABC's Saturday morning offerings for syndicated ones. It also aired Boston Red Sox baseball games on Friday nights. In March 1977,

5225-527: The broadcast starting at 6 was added to WVNY and is known as ABC 22 This Morning . This station has since expanded the show to a traditional two hour morning newscast starting at 5 a.m. At some point in time, WVNY added nightly broadcasts at 6 and 11 p.m. Its news schedule now resembles that of other big three affiliates offering local news, even though they are produced by senior partner WFFF-TV. All newscasts seen on this station were formerly known as ABC 22 News , but are now known as Local 22 News , as has been

5320-465: The case on Sundays from the start in order to accommodate ABC programming. On August 18, 2008, WFFF-TV began airing a two-hour weekday morning show called Fox 44 Local News This Morning . Included in the launch were local news and weather cut-ins on WVNY during its airing of Good Morning America . This occurs at 25 and 55 minutes past the hour from 7 to 9 a.m., in which at those times the two stations simulcast each other. Eventually, an additional hour of

5415-399: 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

5510-433: The difficulties of being the youngest network affiliate in the market, it was a UHF station in a mountainous area. UHF signals usually do not have good reception in rugged terrain. WVNY's last and most successful attempt at a separate news department began on August 9, 1999, with nightly newscasts at 6 and 11 p.m. branded as ABC 22 News . There were also weekday morning local news and weather cut-ins at 25 and 55 minutes past

5605-409: The division include Global's flagship national newscast Global National and newsmagazine shows such as 16x9 . The network also offers various amounts of local news programming on its eleven O&Os. Local news programming on most of Global's O&Os mirror the newscast schedules of many U.S. television stations; most Global-owned stations carry a morning newscast of three or four hours in length,

5700-403: The ensuing years were largely credited with keeping the network viable while its viewership grew. The company enhanced its senior talent pool in 1979 with the arrival of sales guru Dave Mintz, formerly of KVOS-TV , as the network's president, a post he held until his retirement in 1993, taking Global from the lowest-rated station in Toronto to the ratings leader along the way. Over several years,

5795-622: The entire state of Vermont since 2022, when Windham County was moved into the Burlington-Plattsburgh market from the Boston television market. On June 15, 2016, Nexstar announced that it has entered into an affiliation agreement with Katz Broadcasting for the Escape , Laff , Grit , and Bounce TV networks (the last one of which is owned by Bounce Media LLC, whose COO Jonathan Katz is president/CEO of Katz Broadcasting), bringing one or more of

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5890-485: The exception of the nightly newscasts, few other Canadian-produced programs remained on the station, and the ones that did exist were largely criticized as cheaply-produced filler. John Spalding, the station's original program director, quit in 1975 after being unable to convince the station's owners to invest more money into higher-quality production. To replace him the company recruited programmer Bill Stewart away from CKCO-TV, Kitchener. Stewart's savvy program purchases in

5985-412: The following related practices: Global cross-promotes heavily with other Corus Entertainment properties in the markets where both services operate in parallel. On June 6, 2007, the Canadian actors' union ACTRA picketed Global's fall upfronts presentation to protest the lack of Canadian content on current television network schedules. In 1979, Global – then a regional network in Ontario – purchased

6080-615: The four networks to 81 stations owned and/or operated by Nexstar, including WVNY and WFFF-TV. Since the 1980s, WVNY has made attempts at operating a local news department and airing newscasts but none of them ever made any headway in Nielsen ratings against WCAX-TV and NBC affiliate WPTZ; both were respectively among the strongest affiliates of both CBS and NBC, even if their strength was shown more in Montreal than in Vermont. In contrast, WVNY has perennially been one of ABC's weakest affiliates. Besides

6175-420: 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

6270-407: The hour during World News This Morning (now America This Morning from 6 to 7 a.m., and Good Morning America from 7 to 9 a.m. However, due to financial troubles, production was shut down on September 12, 2003. This resulted in the termination of 25 news-related personnel. After WVNY moved into WFFF-TV's studios in 2005, Smith Media made an announcement that the company was planning to establish

6365-697: The league's broadcast syndication service, the Canadian Football Network (CFN); the CFN was backed by the Global Television Network , then a loose-knit television system , which lacked an affiliate in Montreal at the time (it would eventually gain a Quebec station in 1997). Citadel sold WVNY, along with WMGC-TV (now WIVT ) in Binghamton, New York , to the U.S. Broadcast Group in 1995, who in turn sold it to Straightline Communications in 1998. Unlike

6460-455: The licence nominally remained in Quebec City until 2009. Canwest's purchase of CKMI extended Global's footprint to eight of Canada's 10 largest markets (though Ottawa and Montreal were only served by rebroadcasters). Even so, Global was still not a fully national network, as it did not have stations in Calgary and Edmonton . The CRTC turned down bids by Canwest for stations in those cities in

6555-400: 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

6650-419: 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

6745-603: The market when it signed on in 2006. The station shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 22, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 13, using virtual channel 22. It has had difficulty achieving equivalent coverage with its digital signal compared to analog channel 22 raising concerns some parts of Vermont would be left without

6840-412: The metropolitan Toronto , Montreal , and Vancouver markets. By 1968, NTV put forward its first official licence application, under which the original 96 transmitters would be supplemented by 43 more transmitters to distribute a separate French language service, along with provisions for the free distribution of CBC Television , Radio-Canada and a new noncommercial educational television service on

6935-573: The network application forward thereafter. By 1970, the 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. Because Niagara Television and CHCH were no longer involved in

7030-437: The network application. Soble had originally formulated the plan after failing in a bid to acquire CTV. The original proposal was widely criticized on various grounds, including claims that it exceeded the board's concentration of media ownership limits and that it was overly ambitious and financially unsustainable. As well, it failed to include any plan for local news content on any of its individual stations beyond possibly

7125-660: The network on September 4, 2000. The following fall, WIC's long-dominant Vancouver station CHAN-TV was brought into the fold after its existing affiliation agreement with CTV expired, setting off a massive realignment of television affiliations in southwestern British Columbia. Indeed, one main reason why Canwest bought WIC's television assets was because of CHAN's massive translator network, which covered 97% of British Columbia. Global's previous Vancouver station, CKVU-TV , as well as WIC-owned Montreal CTV affiliate CFCF-TV , were sold off. WIC's remaining stations were maintained as twinstick stations and were eventually integrated into

7220-514: The network's national newscast in mid-2009. Any remaining programs there may be accessed on cable or satellite through Global stations from other markets (most commonly Edmonton's CITV), or through the network's website. Following Canwest's purchase of Southam Newspapers (later Canwest Publishing) and the National Post from Conrad Black in 2001, their media interests were merged under a policy of cross-promotion and synergy . Journalists from

7315-445: The network's satellite. Transponder space would also be leased to CTV and Télé-Métropole , but as competing commercial services they would not have been granted the free distribution rights the plan offered to the public television services. However, after federal communications minister Paul Hellyer announced plans to move forward with the publicly owned Anik series of broadcast satellites through Telesat Canada instead of leaving

7410-636: The offer never came to fruition, with the OECA opting instead to expand what would eventually become TVOntario by launching its own transmitters. The new Global Television Network, with the callsign CKGN-TV (now CIII-DT), launched on January 6, 1974 from studios located at a former factory in the Don Mills neighbourhood in North York (now in Toronto) at 6 p.m. local time. Global remains based there today. Although

7505-532: The other hand, the sports segments aired during local newscasts on CIHF-DT in Saint John and CKMI-DT in Montreal are produced from CHAN's Vancouver studio, presented by that station's sports anchors. Until the discontinuation of Fox Sports World Canada , CKND-DT in Winnipeg also produced the Fox Soccer Report , which was seen on the network and Fox Soccer in the United States. It was replaced in 2012 by

7600-639: The other two stations owned at the time by Straightline Communications ( WTVX in Fort Pierce, Florida , and WLWC in New Bedford, Massachusetts , which were operated through LMAs by Viacom 's Paramount Stations Group as sister properties to Viacom-owned stations in the adjacent Miami – Fort Lauderdale and Boston markets, respectively), Straightline operated WVNY outright. Straightline sold WTVX and WLWC to Viacom outright in November 2001 but retained WVNY. During

7695-652: The prime late evening newscast shifted between 10 and 11 p.m., and between 30 and 60 minutes. CKGN changed its callsign to CIII-TV in 1984, deferring to its widespread CATV distribution on Cable 3. Asper bought controlling interest in 1985, making him the first western-based owner of a major Canadian broadcaster. In 1989, Asper and Morton tried to buy each other out, a struggle which was resolved in favour of Asper and Canwest. The network continued to be limited to its six-transmitter chain in Ontario for its first decade. However, soon after Asper bought controlling interest in Global, he seemed eager to grow his chain of stations into

7790-476: 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

7885-523: 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. The group was granted a six-transmitter network in Southern Ontario , stretching from Windsor to Ottawa . They had also sought a seventh transmitter in Maxville that could reach Montreal , but were turned down because of

7980-445: The rollout of satellite technology in the hands of private corporations, Power Corporation backed out of the application and left NTV in limbo. 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. He then put together another investment team to form Global Communications, which carried

8075-478: The same time, WFFF-TV was replaced by WNYF-CD from Watertown. Both stations returned to the lineup on January 8, 2011. Lambert Broadcasting agreed to sell WVNY to Mission Broadcasting on November 5, 2012. Concurrently, Smith Media sold WFFF-TV to Nexstar Broadcasting Group , which operates all of Mission's stations through shared services agreements. On January 14, 2013, the FCC approved the sale of WVNY. The transaction

8170-507: The show but later the whole hour) and the Sunday edition of Good Morning America from 2004 to 2005, as well as its first incarnation of the program from 1993 to 1999. In 2005, WVNY became a sister station to WFFF-TV after Lambert Broadcasting acquired this station and entered into a local marketing agreement with Smith Media (owner of WFFF-TV). The company then moved WVNY into that station's Colchester facilities. This arrangement placed WVNY in

8265-491: The station began airing The Edge of Night in its recommended 4 p.m. time slot and later moved it to 10:30 a.m. In April 1983, amid declining ratings against Sale of the Century on WPTZ , the soap opera was dropped by WVNY. The station also dropped I Married Dora in favor of the 1987 Sea Hunt syndicated program on Friday nights. From 1987 to 1990 , the station aired Canadian Football League games as part of

8360-639: 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. The network has its origins in NTV, a new network first proposed in 1966 by Hamilton media proprietor Ken Soble , the co-founder and owner of independent station CHCH-TV through his Niagara Television company. Financially backed by Power Corporation of Canada , Soble submitted

8455-400: The term "television station" refers to 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

8550-552: The theme on many Nexstar stations as of late. Currently, the station offers 19 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of news a week (with 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday and one hour on weekends), which is the lowest news output in the Burlington–Plattsburgh market. Due to the relatively new status of the news department, there is a Vermont focus in coverage. During weather forecast segments, WFFF-TV uses live NOAA National Weather Service radar data from three regional sites. It

8645-413: The time, the service was only available via digital cable . On April 18, 2008, Global officially launched a digital transmitter in Toronto, making the HD simulcast of CIII-TV available over-the-air. The network also launched an HD simulcast feed of its Vancouver station ( CHAN-TV ) on the same day. Global HD is available nationally via satellite and on digital cable as well as for free over-the-air using

8740-478: The unusual position of being the junior partner as an ABC-affiliated station in a virtual duopoly with a Fox affiliate (most virtual or legal duopolies involving a Fox affiliate and a Big Three-affiliated station result in the Fox affiliate serving as the junior partner). A retransmission dispute forced Time Warner Cable systems to replace WVNY with future sister station WUTR from Utica, New York , on December 16, 2010. At

8835-399: 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 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

8930-419: Was cancelled after 60 episodes amid poor ratings. Global purchased the rights to produce a Canadian version of the popular entertainment magazine Entertainment Tonight ; ET Canada launched on September 12, 2005. It also secured Canadian production rights to the American reality series The Apprentice , but a Canadian version of the program never came to fruition. They also produce a Canadian version of

9025-1125: Was completed on March 1. At the sale's closure, Utica NBC affiliate WKTV was left as Smith Media's only remaining television station property until its sale to Heartland Media was consummated in 2014. On January 27, 2016, it was announced that Nexstar would buy Media General for $ 4.6 billion. WVNY and WFFF became part of "Nexstar Media Group", joining a cluster of television stations Nexstar owns in New England, including fellow ABC affiliate WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut , CBS affiliate WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island , and NBC affiliate WWLP in Springfield, Massachusetts . In addition, WVNY and WFFF also became sisters with fellow ABC and Fox affiliates WTEN and WXXA-TV , respectively, in Albany, New York . These stations also serve Bennington County, Vermont , making Nexstar responsible for ABC and Fox programming throughout

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