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| Halifax, Nova Scotia | |
| Branding | Global Maritimes |
| Channels | Analog: 8 (VHF) |
| Translators | see below |
| Affiliations | Global |
| Owner | Canwest (Canwest Media Inc.) |
| First air date | September 5, 1988 |
| Call letters’ meaning | CI HaliFax |
| Former affiliations | independent (1988-1997) |
| Transmitter Power | 20 kW |
| Height | 241 m |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Website | Global Maritimes |
CIHF-TV, channel 8, is a television station in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, serving the Maritime provinces. It is owned by Canwest, and is affiliated to their Global Television Network. The station is currently branded as Global Maritimes, and was formerly known as MITV (Maritimes Independent Television) until 1997.
The station has a semi-satellite in Saint John, New Brunswick, CIHF-TV-2, which broadcasts on channel 12. This feed serves transmitters in New Brunswick as well as Prince Edward Island, the only differences from the Halifax feed being commercials, a 5-minute news opt-out for New Brunswick, and the Empty Stocking Fund telethon from Saint John on the last Saturday of November or first Saturday of December, with the exception of 2008, where the telethon occurred on the 2nd last Saturday of November, in cooperation with Rogers TV.
Global Maritimes is carried on cable 6 on most systems throughout the region, and is also carried on Bell TV on channel 204. The New Brunswick feed was previously available through Star Choice (channel 330) but was dropped in May 2008 for capacity reasons.
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History
CIHF-TV was launched on September 5, 1988, and was initially owned by New Brunswick Broadcasting Co. Ltd. (itself owned by the Irving family), who also owned CHSJ-TV (a private CBC affiliate at the time) in Saint John, New Brunswick. The station launched with four transmitters, namely those in Halifax, Saint John, Fredericton, and Moncton.
At the time, CIHF was the only over-the-air independent television station in the area, with studios and main operation centre in Halifax, and all other functions in Saint John, the station offered separate newscasts to each province and opportunities for advertisers to buy ad space in one or both provinces. At the time, the station was known as MITV - Maritimes Independent Television. As MITV shared owners with CHSJ-TV, a popular joke in the Maritimes was that MITV stood for "More Irving Television".
When MITV launched, the station took all primetime American shows from CBC stations CBHT and CHSJ, which is believed to have caused the CBC to launch an all-Canadian primetime schedule on their English language network.citation needed
In 1989, transmitters were added in Bridgewater, Truro, and Wolfville. The transmitter network was expanded further in 1993 to include service to Shelburne, Sydney, New Glasgow, and Yarmouth.
After losing $5 million dollars each year since sign-on, CIHF was sold to Canwest on August 29, 1994. This was part of a three-way deal, which saw the CBC taking control of CHSJ-TV, moving it to Fredericton, and renaming it CBAT, making it a full CBC affiliate. Later in the year, CIHF moved its operational and business headquarters to Halifax.
In 1995, CIHF's Saint John offices were moved out of the old CHSJ building and into a new facility in Brunswick Square. Within a year of new ownership and its resulting reorganization and marketing focus, the station became profitable for the first time in its short history. In 1997, as a part of Canwest's rebranding programme, MITV became "Global Maritimes".
The remaining six transmitters signed on in 1998, growing CIHF's coverage to 90% of the Maritime population.
In October 2007 approximately forty employees at CIHF were laid off as part of a wider restructuring of the Global Television network and introduction of centralised news broadcast facilities.1
News programming
Global Maritimes airs two newscasts a day - the Evening News at 6:00 and News Final at 11:00. The Evening News is Global Maritimes' flagship newscast. Global National airs at 6:30, following the Evening News. CIHF is the only station to air Global National at 6:30. Global Maritimes also has a late-night newscast, News Final, the only full hour local late-night newscast in the market, which starts at 11pm.
Along with a growing number of other Global stations, CIHF has used a "virtual" studio since 2007. The anchor sits behind a desk in front of a green screen, onto which a virtual reality studio is digitally projected. Cameras and tapes are cued and controlled from a centralised control centre - which was originally in Vancouver, which was later moved in August 2008 to Edmonton. A number of the redundancies made in October 2007 were directly attributable to the introduction of this new technology.
In terms of ratings, Global Martimes has edged out CBC for the second place title at 6:00 behind CTV News.citation needed
Global Maritimes also had a 5:30 newscast called the Early News, but was cancelled as of early 2007 to make way for a full hour late-night newscast. The Early News was the first attempt by Global Maritimes to compete against CTV Atlantic's flagship news magazine program Live at 5. Global also had a noon lifestyle show called The Noon Show, which was cancelled due to low ratings.
On Saturdays and Sundays, Global Maritimes airs the Evening News at 6:00 and News Final at 11:00.
Personalities
News Director
- Allan Rowe
News Anchors
- Tarek Hagamad (Evening News and News Final anchor)
- Rebecca Lau (Weekend Evening News and News Final anchor)
Reporters
- Ray Bradshaw
- Tori Gass
- Rebecca Lau
- Paul McLaughlin
- Allison Melanson
- Brion Robinson
- Devin Stevens
- Russ White
Weather
- Suzy Burge (Weeknights)
- Duane English (Weekends)
Sports
- Kevin Karius
Notable former personalities
- News & meteorological programming
- Duane Lowe (Previous The Noon Show host and producer)
- Jacqueline Foster (fill-in anchor)
- Paul Palmeter (Previous senior reporter and anchor of News Final)
- Stacey Jones (Previous senior reporter and anchor of Early News, News Final)
- Cindy Day (Previous meteorologist, now at CTV Atlantic)
- Trevor Adams (Previous weekend meteorologist, now at CBC Halifax)
Other programming
CIHF's schedule is different from that of flagship station CIII, because Halifax is one hour ahead of Toronto, and the station has the rights to different programming. Specifically:
- Children's programming is broadcast in the morning Monday to Fridays, and is all Canadian, as well as an extra news bulletin in the early afternoon. This adds the required amount of Canadian content to CIHF's schedule.
- Global's primetime schedule is shuffled around due to time zone and simulcasting issues, with some shows aired on different nights compared to other Global stations.
Slogans
- 1989-91: "A Difference You Can See"
- 1991-94: "We've Got It"
- 1994-97: "MITV's Got It"
- 1997-2006: "Global's Got It"
Transmitters
Below is a list of the station's rebroadcast transmitters.
| Station | City of licence | Channel | ERP | HAAT | Transmitter Coordinates |
| CIHF-TV-1 | Fredericton NB | 11 (VHF) | 20 kW | 174.4 m | |
| CIHF-TV-2 | Saint John NB | 12 (VHF) | 35.5 kW | 363.9 m | |
| CIHF-TV-3 | Moncton NB | 27 (UHF) | 232 kW | 312.2 m | |
| CIHF-TV-4 | Truro | 18 (UHF) | 17.9 kW | 195.4 m | |
| CIHF-TV-5 | Wolfville | 20 (UHF) | 336 kW | 221.7 m | |
| CIHF-TV-6 | Bridgewater | 9 (VHF) | 13.9 kW | 164.5 m | |
| CIHF-TV-7 | Sydney | 11 (VHF) | 154.1 kW | 192.2 m | |
| CIHF-TV-8 | New Glasgow | 34 (UHF) | 18.8 kW | 190.7 m | |
| CIHF-TV-9 | Shelburne | 10 (VHF) | 3.9 kW | 113.2 m | |
| CIHF-TV-10 | Yarmouth | 45 (UHF) | 66.4 kW | 167.3 m | |
| CIHF-TV-11 | Woodstock NB | 38 (UHF) | 51.9 kW | 174.3 m | |
| CIHF-TV-12 | St. Stephen NB | 21 (UHF) | 31.3 kW | 240.8 m | |
| CIHF-TV-13 | Miramichi City NB | 40 (UHF) | 41.7 kW | 119.1 m | |
| CIHF-TV-14 | Charlottetown PEI | 42 (UHF) | 38.1 kW | 146.7 m | |
| CIHF-TV-15 | Antigonish | 21 (UHF) | 37.8 kW | 208.1 m | |
| CIHF-TV-16 | Mulgrave | 28 (UHF) | 2.65 kW | 128.4 m |
References
- ^ CanWest to revamp stations, cut staff, Canadian Press, October 4, 2007
External links
- Global Maritimes
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CIHF-TV History
- Query the REC's Canadian station database for CIHF-TV
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