Global National is the national newscast of Global Television Network in Canada. It is the only English language network newscast in Canada to originate outside of Toronto, broadcasting daily from facilities at Global's Vancouver station CHAN also known as Global BC. The Global Television Network (more commonly called Global) is a major English-language television network in Canada, owned by CanWest Global Communications. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength City of Toronto, Ontario, Canadas Location. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... CHAN-TV Vancouver, British Columbia (otherwise known as Global BC) is the Global Television Networks owned-and-operated station in British Columbia, broadcasting from its studios in Lake City in Burnaby. ...

The program's weekday anchor is Kevin Newman, whose name was added to the program's title beginning in its second season. Kevin Newman (born 1959 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian journalist and news anchor. ...

Global National aired for the first time on September 4, 2001. Prior to its launch, Global aired Canada Tonight (which it had inherited from the WIC group of stations) for a few months; that program, in turn, had replaced regional newscasts such as First National. September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Canada Tonight was a Canadian television newscast, which aired on stations owned by Western International Communications. ... You may be looking instead for the User:Wikipedia is Communism vandal Western International Communications, or WIC, was a Canadian media company, which was acquired by CanWest Global Communications in 2000. ... First National was a Canadian television newscast, which aired on the Global Television Networks stations in Ontario and Manitoba from 1994 to 2001. ...

The show aired only on weekdays until February 26, 2005, when Saturday and Sunday editions were launched with Tara Nelson as weekend anchor. Nelson also serves as substitute for Newman. February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tara Nelson is a Canadian television journalist and news anchor. ...

The only other regular substitute anchor is Troy Reeb, the network's Washington bureau chief, and a former host of Global Sunday. Troy Reeb (born 1969 in Toronto, Ontario and raised in Alberta) is a Canadian journalist who, since 2001, has worked as a correspondent and substitute anchor for Global National. ... Global Sunday was the name of a Canadian television newsmagazine, which aired Sunday evenings on the Global Television Network. ...

The program, covering national and international news, is aired live at 6:30 pm on Global stations in the Eastern Time Zone. This version of the show is then broadcast via satellite tape delay in the Central Time Zone. If news events warrant, a second version of the program can be produced for the Mountain Time Zone and Pacific Time Zone, where it airs at 6:30pm and 5:30pm, respectively. This version is also aired in the Maritime provinces at 11:15pm. Time Zone is also a historical computer game. ... Time Zone is also a historical computer game. ... Time Zone is also a historical computer game. ... The Pacific Standard Time Zone is a geographic region that keeps time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). ...

Despite having fewer reporters and being a latecomer to national news in Canada, Global National has come to rival its competitors at CTV National News and CBC's The National in both awards and ratings. CTV National News is a newscast on CTV, which airs at 11pm local time on the main network across Canada. ... Current CBC Television logo. ... The National, now officially known as CBC News: The National, is the CBCs flagship national television newscast. ...

Unique Offerings

GlobalNational is the first mainstream Canadian newscast to be released as a podcast. The term podcasting is a portmanteau of the words iPod and broadcasting. ...

GlobalNational often uses VoxPolls using text messaging to conduct informal polls, the results are shown on the newscast and in the National Post newspaper. The National Post is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. ...

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