Global HD
In October 2004, Global launched an 1080i HD simulcast of its Toronto station CIII-TV. At the time the service was only available via digital cable. On April 18, 2008, Global officially launched a transmitter in Toronto making the HD simulcast of CIII-TV available over-the-air. They also launched an HD simulcast of their Vancouver station (CHAN-TV) on the same day.
Global HD is available nationally via satellite and on digital cable as well as for free via DTT using a regular TV antenna and a digital tuner (included in most new TVs) on the following channels:
- Toronto: 41 (41.1)
- Vancouver: 22 (8.1)
- Calgary: 41 (2.1)
- Edmonton: 13 (13.1)
- Winnipeg: 40 (9.1)
- Saskatoon: 42 (4.1)
- Lethbridge: 7 (7.1)
- Fredericton: 44 (11.1)
- Thunder Bay: 4 (4.1)
- Windsor: 22 (22.1)
- Saint John: 12 (12.1)
- Regina: 11 (11.1)
- Sherbrooke: 11 (11.1)
- Quebec City: 20 (20.2)
- Halifax: 8 (8.1)
- Montreal: 15 (15.1)
- Moncton: 27 (27.1)
- Ottawa: 6 (6.1)
- Paris: 6 (6.1)
- Midland: 7 (7.1)
The above noted transmitters were converted to digital by August 31, 2011, as part of Canada's over-the-air transition deadline in mandatory markets from analog to digital. As part of its purchase by Shaw in 2011, Shaw committed to converting all of the network's over-the-air analog transmitters to digital by 2016.
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