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Global TV has its roots in a planned, but never launched, network called NTV, which was proposed to the Board of Broadcast Governors (the forerunner of today's Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission) in 1966 by Ken Soble, the owner of Hamilton, Ontario TV station CHCH-TV.<ref>[http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/global-television-network Global TV history]</ref> NTV was planned as a network which would carry the programming of CHCH to a network of satellite-fed retransmitters across Canada. Soble died in December 1966, leading to his widow Frances and Al Bruner, the vice-president of CHCH's then-parent Niagara Television, to take over the leadership of CHCH and continue the network proposal.<ref>"Fired CTV official pilots plans for a third, satellite-based network". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', January 19, 1967.</ref> The NTV proposal was criticized for being financially unsustainable, exceeding media ownership limits of the time and for not planning on local news content outside of [[Toronto]], [[Montreal]] and [[Vancouver]]. NTV never got off the ground after financial backer Power Corporation backed out of the network application to the BBG in 1968.

Global TV has its roots in a planned, but never launched, network called NTV, which was proposed to the Board of Broadcast Governors (the forerunner of today's Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission) in 1966 by Ken Soble, the owner of Hamilton, Ontario TV station CHCH-TV.<ref>[http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listing_and_histories/global-television-network Global TV history]</ref> NTV was planned as a network which would carry the programming of CHCH to a network of satellite-fed retransmitters across Canada. Soble died in December 1966, leading to his widow Frances and Al Bruner, the vice-president of CHCH's then-parent Niagara Television, to take over the leadership of CHCH and continue the network proposal.<ref>"Fired CTV official pilots plans for a third, satellite-based network". ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'', January 19, 1967.</ref> The NTV proposal was criticized for being financially unsustainable, exceeding media ownership limits of the time and for not planning on local news content outside of [[Toronto]], [[Montreal]] and [[Vancouver]]. NTV never got off the ground after financial backer Power Corporation backed out of the network application to the BBG in 1968.

Following his release from CHCH in 1969, Bruner went ahead with an application to the CRTC for a scaled-down version of NTV, now going by the name Global TV under Bruner's Global Communications. Global planned to launch only in southern Ontario, with transmitters fed from a station based in Toronto. The network launched on January 6, 1974 with its Toronto station, CKGN-TV (now CIII-DT) and six retransmitters located between Windsor and [[Ottawa]].  

Following his release from CHCH in 1969, Bruner went ahead with an application to the CRTC for a scaled-down version of NTV, now going by the name Global TV under Bruner's Global Communications. Global planned to launch only in southern Ontario, with transmitters fed from a station based in Toronto. The network launched on January 6, 1974 with its Toronto station, CKGN-TV (now CIII-DT) and six retransmitters located between Windsor and [[Ottawa]] (a seventh transmitter at Maxville, Ontario was denied due to that town's proximity to Montreal, which was under a CRTC-imposed moratorium on new TV stations in the city at that time).  

Global became financially insolvent within three months of its launch and was purchased by a group headed by [[Izzy Asper]], who later became the owner of [[Winnipeg]] TV station CKND-TV. Global began syndicating the shows it carried to other independent stations in Canada soon after its bailout. Asper's company, CanWest Capital, later merged with Global Communications to create Canwest Global Communications and acquired controlling interest in the network in 1985.

Global became financially insolvent within three months of its launch and was purchased by a group headed by [[Izzy Asper]], who later became the owner of [[Winnipeg]] TV station CKND-TV. Global began syndicating the shows it carried to other independent stations in Canada soon after its bailout. Asper's company, CanWest Capital, later merged with Global Communications to create Canwest Global Communications and acquired controlling interest in the network in 1985.