Global News to launch 24-7 regional all-news channel in British Columbia

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VANCOUVER, Jan. 11, 2012 /CNW/ - Shaw Media announced today that it has filed an application with the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a regional, Global BC-driven all-news specialty channel. Shaw Media is expected to launch B.C.'s first all-news channel by the summer of 2012.

 

http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/904199/shaw-media-launching-all-news-network-for-british-columbia

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VANCOUVER, Jan. 11, 2012 /CNW/ - Shaw Media announced today that it has filed an application with the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a regional, Global BC-driven all-news specialty channel. Shaw Media is expected to launch B.C.'s first all-news channel by the summer of 2012.

 

http://www.newswire....ritish-columbia

 

My guess it will be kinda similar to the CityNews Channel that started up in Toronto last year. Then again, the CRTC doesn't just rubberstamp every channel that's being proposed so we'll have to see if this application gets approved at all or not.

 

Seems like Vancouver and British Columbia as a whole, would be a good market for this and if I remember correct Global BC has the highest-rated newscasts in BC

 

Here's video of the annoucement from Global BC:

 

http://www.globaltvbc.com/video/24+hour+news/video.html?v=2185941203&p=1&s=dd#video

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It will be nice to have a 24/7 news channel dedicated to BC. CTV's and CBC's 24/7 channels seem to forgot about covering news in BC. I wonder if CTV BC has anything planned since soon they will be competing against Global BC and their 24/7 news channel.

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Yeah Global BC is the highest rated station period in BC they even beat CTV in prime-time. If your interested their are some ratings here http://shawmedia.ca/advertising/broadcast/television/stations/globalbc/news.asp

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Yeah Global BC is the highest rated station period in BC they even beat CTV in prime-time. If your interested their are some ratings here http://shawmedia.ca/...obalbc/news.asp

 

Wow, even Global National does better than the CTV and CBC newscasts. I didn't even notice that.

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Global National is extremely competitive to CTV National News at the national level considering it has only been around a bit over 10 years.

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the channel has been approved by the CRTC and will launch on january 31st 2013.

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the channel launches March 14th

 

http://shawmediatv.ca/press/read/?1913

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Tomorrow is the big day for Global News: BC 1. And Global BC ran a story tonight showing all the prep work in getting the station ready to air which also gave us a sneak peak on what to expect from the new channel.

 

http://www.globaltvbc.com/video/index.html?v=gJF_nq8AIAD8ASoIyLLkY0rnQ1nJ6QIP

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Its nice to see a 24/7 news channel outside of Toronto.

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I am liking the graphics, from what I have seen on the website. Very clean design, lots of blue. I've also noticed billboards for other Global stations with the same look, so we could see a graphics relaunch in the next few days for other Global stations.

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yeah it wouldn't surprise me if we similar graphics at other global stations at some point. Im surprised they are not already using the BC1 Graphics for Global BC.

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I am liking the graphics, from what I have seen on the website. Very clean design, lots of blue. I've also noticed billboards for other Global stations with the same look, so we could see a graphics relaunch in the next few days for other Global stations.

Just last week, Global actually started using on-air promos with that exact design and a new VO too.

 

Their current news design, although nicer since the new L3 design they introduced last year, still has synergy with the old teal look. I was beginning to wonder if they would be changing up the news graphics to match, since I swear its only had minimal adjustments (such as a retrofit for HD) since they debuted the current Global logo at Super Bowl XL.

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Just last week, Global actually started using on-air promos with that exact design and a new VO too.

 

Their current news design, although nicer since the new L3 design they introduced last year, still has synergy with the old teal look. I was beginning to wonder if they would be changing up the news graphics to match, since I swear its only had minimal adjustments (such as a retrofit for HD) since they debuted the current Global logo at Super Bowl XL.

Im surprised Global BC has not started using graphics and music similar to BC1. i thought they would want to keep a consistent look between Global BC news and BC1 news.