News Operation
The station currently produces a total of 45 hours of local newscasts each week; seven hours of news every weekday (consisting of a 3½ hour morning newscast, hour-long newscasts at noon, 6 p.m. and 11 p.m., and half-hour newscasts at 5), and five hours on weekends (consisting of a three-hour Saturday morning newscast, two-hour Sunday morning news cast, an hour-long newscast at 6 p.m. and half-hour newscast at 11 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday nights).
The station is also the first in Edmonton to have a news helicopter. The helicopter, called Global 1, is shared with CHED (AM) for their traffic reports during the Morning News (5:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.) and the Early News (5:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.). The helicopter is also used frequently for breaking news coverage. Both CHED (Corus Entertainment) and CITV (Shaw Media) are owned by the Shaw family, but are operated as separate businesses.
On November 15, 2010, Global Edmonton became the first television station in Alberta to produce and broadcast its locally-produced programming in high definition.
On May 31, 2011, Shaw Media announced that a new two-hour Sunday morning newscast will debut on CITV-DT on September 11, 2011, running from 8-10 a.m. MT. In addition, the Saturday Morning News will be expanded to three hours, running from 7-10 a.m. MT, on the following day.
On August 27, 2012, Global Edmonton will expand its weekday morning newscast to four hours, with the addition of a half-hour at 5 a.m., the 5-6 a.m. hour of the newscast will be titled as the Early Morning News; in addition on September 2, 2012, the station will expand its Sunday morning newscast to three hours with an additional hour at 7 a.m. The expansions of the station's morning news programming is part of an expansion of local news programming on Global owned-and-operated stations across Canada.
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