News Operation
Global Maritimes airs two local newscasts a day from their Halifax studios: the flagship Evening News at 6 p.m.; and News Final, the region's only full hour local late-night newscast, at 11 p.m. The Evening News is followed by Global National at 6:30 p.m.; CIHF is the only Global O&O to air the network newscast at that time slot. Separate editions of the Evening News are produced for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. On Saturdays and Sundays, Global Maritimes airs the Evening News at 6 p.m. and News Final at 11 p.m. All of these news programs are broadcast from their Halifax studios.
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, but was 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.
Global Maritimes also had a 5:30 p.m. 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 May 31, 2011, Shaw Media announced that a new regional weekday morning newscast will begin broadcasting on Global Maritimes in late-November 2011. The morning newscasts will run from 6:30 to 8:30 a.m. Atlantic Time.
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 the Evening News; Kronstein was the former host of Live at 5 on ATV (now CTV Atlantic) until 2003. On the same day, the station provided more details about its upcoming Morning 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.
On May 30, 2012, Shaw Media announced that Global Maritimes will launch a weekday morning newscast in the fall of 2012. This is part of an expansion of local news programming on Global owned-and-operated stations across Canada.
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