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| Channels | |
| Branding | Global Halifax |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | Global |
| Ownership | |
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| CHNB-DT | |
| History | |
First air date | September 5, 1988 (36 years ago) (1988-09-05) |
Former call signs | CIHF-TV (1988–2011) |
Former channel number(s) | Analogue: 8 (VHF, 1988–2011) |
| Independent (1988–1997) | |
Call sign meaning | Irving Family (station's original owner) Halifax &Fredericton |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | CRTC |
| ERP | 1kW |
| HAAT | 241.0 m (791 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°39′3″N63°39′26″W / 44.65083°N 63.65722°W /44.65083; -63.65722 (CIHF) |
| Translator(s) | see§ Transmitters |
| Links | |
| Website | Global Halifax |
CIHF-DT (channel 8) is atelevision station inHalifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, part of theGlobal Television Network.Owned and operated by network parentCorus Entertainment, it is asister station toCHNB-DT inSaint John, New Brunswick. The two stations share a studio on Gottingen Street indowntown Halifax; CIHF-DT's transmitter is located on Washmill Lake Drive on the city's west side.
CIHF-TV was launched on September 5, 1988, and was initially owned by the Irving family of Saint John, New Brunswick and theirNew Brunswick Broadcasting Company. It was co-owned with Saint John-basedCHSJ-TV, theCBC Television affiliate for all of New Brunswick. The station initially had only one transmitter, in Halifax; it served the rest of Nova Scotia via cable. When MITV launched, it took all prime time American shows from CBC stationCBHT—reportedly a prelude to the CBC dropping all prime time American programming nationwide.
It was a sister station to CIHF-TV-2 in Saint John. Both stations were branded asMITV (Maritimes Independent Television), and their schedules were almost identical. However, the stations offered separate newscasts to their respective provinces and opportunities for advertisers to buy ad space on one or both stations. Furthermore, although the Saint John station's callsign made it appear that it was a rebroadcaster of the Halifax station, both stations were separately licensed by theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).[2][3] At the time, MITV 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. As MITV shared owners with CHSJ-TV, a popular joke in the Maritimes was that MITV stood for "More Irving Television".
In 1989, retransmitters were added inBridgewater,Truro, andWolfville. The transmitter network was expanded further in 1993 to include service toShelburne,Sydney,New Glasgow, andYarmouth.
After losingCA$5 million each year since sign-on, MITV 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 toFredericton, and renaming it CBAT, making it a full CBC O&O. Later in the year, MITV moved its operational and business headquarters to Halifax.
In 1995, MITV'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 August 1997, when Canwest rebranded its stations as the Global Television Network, MITV becameGlobal Maritimes.
Additional retransmitters signed on in 1998, inMulgrave andAntigonish.
In October 2007, approximately forty employees at Global Maritimes were laid off as part of a wider restructuring of the Global Television Network and introduction of centralized news broadcast facilities.[4]
On December 17, 2012, Global Maritimes officially began operations at its new home on Göttingen Street in Downtown Halifax. Previously, its operations were located on Akerley Boulevard in an industrial park in the Halifax suburb ofDartmouth.
In April 2013, CIHF was rebranded asGlobal Halifax, while sister station CIHF-2 in Saint John was rebranded asGlobal New Brunswick, marking the first time the stations have not used the same brand. The stations began producing separate nightly newscasts in addition to their already existing separate evening newscasts, and a new senior correspondent was hired for Global New Brunswick. The stations will continue to share news-gathering resources and anchors.[5] Despite the separate branding, the two stations' non-news schedules remain virtually identical, except for separate idents and commercials.
On April 1, 2016, Shaw Media was sold to Corus Entertainment.
Global Halifax airs three local newscasts:Global News Morning from 6–10 a.m. on weekdays is presented byPaul Brothers from Global's Halifax studios; the flagshipGlobal News at 6 is presented from Global's Montreal studios by Aalia Adam; andGlobal News at 11 is presented from Global's News Centre in Toronto.Global News at 6 is followed byGlobal National at 6:30 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays, Global Halifax and Global New Brunswick share a combinedGlobal News at 6 andGlobal News at 11, also presented from Toronto, under theGlobal Maritimes brand. All of these news programs are broadcast in16:9high definition.
Along with a growing number of other Global stations, CIHF has used a "virtual" studio since March 2008. The anchor sits behind a desk in front of a green screen, onto which a virtual reality studio is digitally inserted. Cameras and tapes are cued and controlled from a centralized control centre—which was originally inVancouver, but was moved in August 2008 toEdmonton. A number of the redundancies made in October 2007 were directly attributable to the introduction of this new technology.
Global Maritimes also had a 5:30 p.m. newscast called theEarly News, but was cancelled as of early 2007 to make way for a full hour late-night newscast. TheEarly News was the first attempt by Global Maritimes to compete againstCTV Atlantic's flagship news magazine programLive at 5. Global also had a noon lifestyle show calledThe Noon Show (later calledGlobal Noon), which was cancelled due to low ratings.
On June 8, 2011, the station announced that Ron Kronstein would become the senior anchor/producer for both the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick editions of theEvening News; Kronstein was the former host ofLive at 5 on ATV (now CTV Atlantic) until 2003.[6] On the same day, the station provided more details about its upcomingMorning News, and announced that up to a dozen new reporters, producers, and videographers would be hired at its bureaus in Halifax, Sydney, Moncton, Saint John, and Fredericton.[7]
On January 28, 2013, Global Maritimes launched a three-hour weekday morning program (initially airing from 6 to 9 a.m.) titled theMorning News, as part of an expansion of local news programming on Global owned-and-operated stations across Canada.[8][9]
Since 2016, Global Halifax has not had a weather anchor for their 6 p.m. newscast and instead relies onGlobal Toronto's chiefmeteorologist Anthony Farnell for the weather reports.
Global Halifax temporarily ceased presentation of its evening newscasts from Halifax on February 15, 2018. This came after the departure of anchor Ron Kronstein toPeterborough, Ontario, to work forCHEX-DT.Global News at 6 was temporarily presented from its Toronto news centre. Local presentation for the weekday edition ofGlobal News at 6 returned to Halifax in August 2018, with the hiring of news anchor Sarah Ritchie from CTV Atlantic.[10]
On September 6, 2022, Global named Aalia Adam as the new presenter ofGlobal News at 6 for Halifax and New Brunswick, in addition to her role as the presenter of Global Montreal's 5:30 and 6:30 p.m. newscasts. This resulted in presentation of the weekday Halifax and New Brunswick 6 p.m. newscasts to be moved to Global's studios in Montreal.[11][12]
The Maritimes are located in theAtlantic Time Zone, which is one hour ahead of theEastern Time Zone, where Global's CIII Toronto is located. In order to accommodate such atime zone difference and maximizesimultaneous substitution opportunities with the American stations carried on cable, CIHF's prime time schedule deviates from that of most other Global O&Os, with some shows airing earlier in the evening, and occasionally on different nights, compared to other Global stations. (Global's stations in Alberta, which operate onMountain Time but are in markets where the American network affiliates available on cable are onPacific Time, usually have a very similar prime time schedule.)
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 8.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | CIHF-HD | Global |
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