National Impact
Across Canada, the most visible effects of the Vancouver realignment included:
- the launch of Global National, Global's nightly newscast which originates from CHAN's Burnaby studios (the weekday edition was presented from Ottawa between 2008 and 2010), and the associated establishment of Global's national news division;
- the integration of the former WIC-owned independent stations CHEK, CHCH and CJNT into the CH television system; and
- the transformation of Citytv from a single independent station in Toronto into a full-fledged television system.
CHAN had — and continues to have — a much larger network of rebroadcasters than CIVT, meaning that CTV lost almost all of its terrestrial coverage in British Columbia outside of the Greater Vancouver and Victoria area, and to this day still relies on cable television, not terrestrial transmitters, to reach most of the province. This gave a significant boost to Global, and a corresponding handicap to CTV, in national television ratings in the early 2000s. However, with CTV generally outspending Global on hit television series over the next number of years, and continuing reductions in the number of viewers relying solely on over-the-air broadcasts, this advantage had largely dissipated by 2006.
Read more about this topic: 2001 Vancouver TV Realignment
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