CFRE-DT
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CFRE-DT (branded on-air as Global Regina) is the Global owned-and-operated station in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 11 from a transmitter near Louis Riel Trail/Highway 11, northwest of Regina.
Owned by Shaw Media, its studios are located on Hoffer Drive and McDonald Street on the northeast side of Regina. This station can also be seen on Access Communications and Sasktel Max channel 5. There is a high definition feed offered on Access Communications digital channel 508 and Sasktel Max channel 305.
History
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The station was launched on September 6, 1987 by Canwest. CFRE and its sister station in Saskatoon, CFSK, were branded as STV, it became part of the CanWest Global System in 1990 until the Global identity was extended to all of Canwest's stations in 1997.
The station has one rebroadcast transmitter, on channel 6 in Fort Qu'Appelle (CFRE-TV-2), operating at 0.01 kW in power.
On August 10, 2011, CFRE-TV flash-cut to digital broadcasts on VHF channel 11.
News operation
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The station currently produces an hour-and-a-half of local newscasts every weekday, and two hours of local news on weekends (consisting of half-hour newscasts at 6 and 10 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday nights).
On May 31, 2011, Shaw Media announced that a new local weekday morning newscast would begin broadcasting on Global Regina in late-August 2011. The morning newscast will run from 6 to 9 a.m. Central Time.[1] On August 11, 2011, it was announced that Heather Anderson would become Host of the new weekday morning newscast debuting in the fall.[2]
In late 2011, Global Regina became the first television station in the city to broadcast its news in high definition.
On August 20, 2012, Global Regina expanded its half-hour 10 p.m. newscast to one hour, and re-named it from Prime News to News Hour Final; the addition is part of an expansion of local news programming on Global owned-and-operated stations across Canada.[3]
News/station presentation
Newscast titles
- Global (Regina) News (1997–2000, 2006–present)[4][5]
- Global (Saskatchewan) News (2000–2006)
Station slogans
- "Global's Got It!" (1997–2006)
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News team[6]
Anchors
- Heather Anderson - Morning News (weekdays at 6 a.m.)
- TBD - Evening News, News Hour Final (weeknights at 6, 10 and 11 p.m.)
- Whitney Stinson - Evening News and News Final (weekends at 6 and 10 p.m.)
- Tom Vernon - Focus Saskatchewan host
Weather team
- Tiffany Lizée - weather specialist; Evening News (weeknights at 6 p.m.),News Hour Final (weeknights at 10 p.m.)
- Rustie Dean - weather specialist; Morning News (weekdays at 6 a.m.)
Sports team
- Warren Woods - lead sports anchor; Evening News (weeknights at 6 p.m.), News Hour Final (weeknights at 10 p.m.)
- Derek Meyers - sports anchor; Weekend Evening News (weekends at 6 p.m.) and News Final (weekends at 10 p.m.)
Traffic
- Rustie Dean - Morning News (weekdays at 6 a.m.)
Reporters
- Raquel Fletcher
- Shanelle Kaul
- Kent Morrison
- Sarah Richter
- Whitney Stinson
- Tom Vernon
- Kahla Buchanan
Former on-air staff
References
- ^ http://newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2011/31/c9068.html
- ^ http://www.globalregina.com/Global+Regina+announces+Morning+Show/5241089/story.html
- ^ Global News Boosts Local Programming Across the Country, Broadcaster Magazine, May 30, 2012.
- ^ Global Regina News Promo, 1997
- ^ Global Regina (Saskatchewan) and Global Saskatoon News Openings 2010
- ^ Global Regina - Personalities
External links
- Global Regina
- Canadian Communications Foundation - CFRE-TV History
- CFRE-TV in the REC Canadian station database
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