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CIHF-DT (branded on-air as Global Halifax) is the Global owned-and-operated television station, serving Nova Scotia that is licensed to Halifax. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter located on Washmill Lake Drive in Halifax. Owned by Shaw Media, it is sister station to CHNB-DT in Saint John, New Brunswick. The two stations share a studio on Göttingen Street in downtown Halifax. This station can also be seen on EastLink TV channel 6, Bell Aliant TV channel 4, and Bell TV channel 204. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 329 (Classic) or 060 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 050 (Classic) or 550 (Advanced). There is a high definition feed offered on Eastlink TV digital channel 602 and Bell Aliant TV channel 402. ==History== CIHF-TV was launched on September 5, 1988, and was initially owned by the Irving family of Saint John, New Brunswick and their New Brunswick Broadcasting Company. It was co-owned with Saint John-based CHSJ-TV, the CBC Television affiliate for all of New Brunswick. The station initially had only one transmitter, in Halifax; it served the rest of Nova Scotia via cable. When MITV launched, it took all primetime American shows from CBC station CBHT—reportedly a prelude to the CBC dropping all primetime American programming nationwide. However ''Dallas'' (simulcast from WABI-TV and WAGM-TV via cable and satellite) and ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' (simulcast from WLBZ-TV via cable and satellite which also moved to daytime and carried reruns instead of new episodes at night starting in 1993 or later) were on CBC through the early 1990s. It was a sister station to CIHF-TV-2 in Saint John. Both stations were branded as MITV (Maritimes Independent Television), and their schedules were almost identical. However, the stations offered separate newscasts to their respective provinces and opportunities for advertisers to buy ad space on one or both stations. Furthermore, although the Saint John station's callsign made it appear that it was a rebroadcaster of the Halifax station, both stations were separately licensed by the CRTC.〔(ARCHIVED - Decision CRTC 89-639 )〕〔(Shaw CRTC ownership chart )〕 At the time, MITV was the only over-the-air independent television station in the area, with studios and main operation centre in Halifax, and all other functions in Saint John. As MITV shared owners with CHSJ-TV, a popular joke in the Maritimes was that MITV stood for "More Irving Television". In 1989, retransmitters were added in Bridgewater, Truro, and Wolfville. The transmitter network was expanded further in 1993 to include service to Shelburne, Sydney, New Glasgow, and Yarmouth. After losing $5 million each year since sign-on, MITV was sold to Canwest on August 29, 1994. This was part of a three-way deal, which saw the CBC taking control of CHSJ-TV, moving it to Fredericton, and renaming it CBAT, making it a full CBC O&O. Later in the year, MITV moved its operational and business headquarters to Halifax. In 1995, MITV's Saint John offices were moved out of the old CHSJ building and into a new facility in Brunswick Square. Within a year of new ownership and its resulting reorganization and marketing focus, the station became profitable for the first time in its short history. In 1997, when Canwest rebranded its stations as the Global Television Network, MITV became "Global Maritimes." Additional retransmitters signed on in 1998, in Mulgrave and Antigonish. In October 2007 approximately forty employees at Global Maritimes were laid off as part of a wider restructuring of the Global Television network and introduction of centralised news broadcast facilities.〔(CanWest to revamp stations, cut staff ), Canadian Press, October 4, 2007〕 On December 17, 2012, Global Maritimes officially began operations at its new home on Göttingen Street in Downtown Halifax. Previously, its operations were located on Akerley Blvd. in an industrial park in the Halifax suburb of Dartmouth. In April 2013, CIHF was rebranded as ''Global Halifax'', while sister station CIHF-2 in Saint John was rebranded as ''Global New Brunswick'', marking the first time the stations have not used the same brand. The stations began producing separate nightly newscasts in addition to their already existing separate evening newscasts, and a new senior correspondent was hired for Global New Brunswick. The stations will continue to share newsgathering resources and anchors.〔(Global News Rebrands Global Maritimes as Global Halifax & Global New Brunswick )〕 Despite the separate branding, the two stations' non-news schedules remain virtually identical, except for separate idents and commercials. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CIHF-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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