is a
Television Station owned by
CanWest Global that serves most of the
Canadian province of
Ontario . This flagship station of the
Global Television Network is licenced at
Paris, Ontario but its headquarters and studios are in
Toronto .
Most
Cable Television systems in Ontario carry the station, normally on channel 3.
The station was launched on , John Dawe, Jane Gilbert,
Peter Kent , Loretta Sullivan,
Bob McAdorey ,
Thalia Assuras , and others.
The callsign CKGN-TV was changed to CIII-TV in January 1984, to mark the 10th anniversary of the station. The Windsor/Cottam transmitter would be an exception for a few years as it continued to be identified in
CRTC documents as CKGN-TV-1.
From 1994 to 2001, CIII also produced '', the program was replaced by ''
Global National '', anchored by
Kevin Newman and originating from
Global BC in
Vancouver .
CIII has evolved into a much more Toronto-centric station in recent years, despite being licensed to a town a fair distance away from the
Greater Toronto Area . Previously, it employed a number of freelance journalists from across the province who filed reports for Global News. This, along with extensive province-wide weather coverage, gave the station a distinctive Ontario feel for many years. While the main studio was always located in Don Mills, it was not a distinctly Toronto station until it began to rebrand itself in the late 1990s.
CIII was originally owned by Global Communications, which was fully acquired by
Izzy Asper in
1989 . Asper's stations, including
UTV in Vancouver, STV (
CFRE-TV /
CFSK-TV ) in
Saskatchewan ,
CKND in
Winnipeg , and
MITV in the
Maritimes , formed a mini-network for a number of years, which evolved into the Global that Canadians know today. All of these stations began using the "Global" brand, in addition to CIII, in 1997.
Unlike most Global stations, CIII presently uses "Global News", as opposed to a regional name such as "Global Ontario", as its main news brand. Individual newscasts are titled ''News Hour'', ''News Final'', et cetera.
