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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).  

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 [[broadcast syndication|syndicating]] the shows it carried to other [[independent station]]s 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.

Canwest subsequently began acquiring some of the stations that carried Global programming, including CKVU-TV Vancouver and CIHF-TV [[Halifax]], as well as launching stations in [[Saskatchewan]] under the branding of STV, to form the Canwest Global System, a system of [[independent station]]s with individual branding for each station, in 1990. Following the acquisition of majority ownership in [[Quebec City]]'s then-[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] affiliate CKMI-TV and relaunching it as a Global station, the system relaunched as a network on August 18, 1997, using the generic Global TV brand (with no regional branding variations) on all of its owned stations from Vancouver to Halifax. Canwest went into creditor protection in October 2009 and its assets, including Global TV, were acquired by Shaw Communications in October 2010, then were turned over in turn to Shaw sister company Corus in April 2016.

Canwest subsequently began acquiring some of the stations that carried Global programming, including CKVU-TV Vancouver and CIHF-TV [[Halifax]], as well as launching stations in [[Saskatchewan]] under the branding of STV, to form the Canwest Global System, a system of independent stations with individual branding for each station, in 1990. Following the acquisition of majority ownership in [[Quebec City]]'s then-[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] affiliate CKMI-TV and relaunching it as a Global station, the system relaunched as a network on August 18, 1997, using the generic Global TV brand (with no regional branding variations) on all of its owned stations from Vancouver to Halifax. Canwest went into creditor protection in October 2009 and its assets, including Global TV, were acquired by Shaw Communications in October 2010, then were turned over in turn to Shaw sister company Corus in April 2016.

From its 1974 launch, Global has grown to its current level of 12 stations owned by Corus, along with two independently-owned affiliates. [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador]] independent station CJON-DT is also supplied with some Global programming, though it is not branded as such on the station (except for national newscast ''Global National'') but is instead marketed as syndicated programming.

From its 1974 launch, Global has grown to its current level of 12 stations owned by Corus, along with two independently-owned affiliates. [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador]] independent station CJON-DT is also supplied with some Global programming, though it is not branded as such on the station (except for national newscast ''Global National'') but is instead marketed as syndicated programming.