''Global National'' is the

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flagship national newscast of Canada's

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. Editorial and production staff are based out of Global's national news centre at

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, with Dawna Friesen presenting from the Global BC studios Mondays to Thursdays, and Farah Nasser presenting from the

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studios Fridays to Sundays. From 2008 to 2010, the program was the only Canadian network newscast to be regularly anchored from the nation's capital,

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. In addition to Global's owned-and-operated stations (O&Os), ''Global National'' also airs on affiliate

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and

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CJON-DT in St. John's, Newfoundland. Global also produced a Mandarin version of the newscast, titled ''Global National Mandarin'' from 2012 to 2016. It was anchored by Carol Wang. The newscast was seen on

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and

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History

Global's first tentative steps towards a national news presence came in 1994 with the launch of '' First National'', a regional newscast presented by

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which was aired in

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and (starting in 1997)

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. Around the same time, the rival WIC television station group launched '' Canada Tonight'', a newscast produced at WIC's

station

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(better known as British Columbia Television or BCTV), and also aired on its stations in Alberta and Ontario. Following the purchase of WIC's television stations by Global's then-parent company

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, Global announced in January 2001 its plans to launch a new network newscast in September of that year, with Kevin Newman returning to Canada from

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as the newscast's chief anchor. ''First National'' ended production in February, and the Global stations which had aired that program broadcast ''Canada Tonight'' in its place until the new newscast launched. The final broadcast of ''Canada Tonight'' aired on August 31, 2001, and the new newscast, titled ''Global National'', debuted on September 3 from a renovated studio at CHAN, which became a Global O&O two days earlier and produces its local newscasts from the same studio. As part of the deal in which Global bought CHAN, it became home to Global's national news centre; the station had wanted to do a national newscast for its former network CTV (with ''Canada Tonight'' emerging as the result after CTV's board turned CHAN's proposal down). Kevin Newman's name was added to the program's title from the start of its second season. The program initially only aired on weekdays; weekend broadcasts began on February 26, 2005, with

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as the anchor.Alex Strachan, "Global National takes on a seven-day work week: Familiar faces will be on weekend broadcasts". ''

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'', February 22, 2005. The launch of the weekend editions precipitated the cancellation of the newsmagazine series '' Global Sunday''. ''Global National'' initially aired in different time slots across the country: 5:30 pm in

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, and

; 6:30 pm in Ontario and Quebec; and 11:15 pm in the

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. In conjunction with the launch of Global's new visual identity in February 2006, the program began to be aired live at 6:30 pm in the

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. This version of the program is then broadcast via satellite tape delay in time zones to the west (at 6:30 Eastern, 5:30

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, and

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, and 6:00 on CHBC

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since 2009), with updates if news events warrant. This allows the newscast to air at a uniform time slot across most of the country, as well as to serve as a lead-in to local news in most markets. While strong in Western Canada from day one – particularly in British Columbia, where CHAN has dominated news ratings for four decades – the timeslot change allowed the program's ratings in Ontario to improve significantly as a result of having ''

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'' as its lead-in; that show had previously given a strong ratings bump to

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's local newscast. (On October 11, 2011, CIII moved ''Global National'' back to 6:30 p.m. as part of a scheduling shift with its early evening newscast, '' News Hour''.) It is often difficult to compare Canada's national newscast ratings because the newscasts air at different times. Global decided to cut into their supper hour local newscast ratings to air ''Global National'' while rivals CTV and CBC air their national newscasts in the late evening. Despite airing in a more favorable timeslot, Global National is continually out-rated by ''

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'' and maintains a slight lead over CBC's '' The National.'' In February 2008, Newman began presenting the weekday edition of ''Global National'' from a specially-built digital newsroom and studio facility in

. The Ottawa studio's cameras were controlled remotely from CHAN in Vancouver, where the newscast's main editorial and production staff remain. Similar remote-controlled greenscreen studios were introduced at a number of local Global newscasts.

was named Global's Europe bureau chief in September 2008; her position as the program's weekend anchor was then shared by

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on Saturdays and Robin Gill on Sundays. Nelson resigned in October 2010 to become the new 6:00 pm anchor at CTV Calgary, Alberta (

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). Newman announced his departure from the network on April 30, 2010, and anchored the newscast for the last time on August 20, 2010. Dawna Friesen was named as his successor on July 13, 2010, and began anchoring ''Global National'' on September 20, 2010. Carolyn Jarvis was reassigned to Global's newsmagazine program '' 16:9'' in 2011, with Robin Gill taking over as Saturday anchor alongside her pre-existing Sunday hosting duties.

''Global National Mandarin''

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in Vancouver and Calgary. On December 6, 2011, Global announced its plans to launch ''Global National Mandarin'' (Global National 国语新闻). The 30-minute Mandarin newscast debuted on January 23, 2012, with Carol Wang as anchor. It was announced on June 29, 2016, that ''Global National Mandarin'' would air its final broadcast on June 30 as it did not garner the viewership necessary to continue airing. The investigative documentary series ''

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'' was also cancelled at this time.

Features

''Global National'' was the first mainstream Canadian newscast to be released as a

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. In 2006, the download was expanded to include video for playback on a video

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Notable on-air staff

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" bar:Gill text:" Robin Gill" bar:Jarvis text:"

" bar:Friesen text:" Dawna Friesen" bar:Wang text:"Carol Wang" bar:Nasser text:"

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Anchors

* Dawna Friesen - anchor and executive editor (Mon-Thu) *

- weekend/substitute anchor (Fri-Sun)

Correspondents

* Eric Sorensen - Senior National Affairs Correspondent * Jeff Semple - Global News Senior National Correspondent * Jackson Proskow - Washington Bureau Chief * Reggie Cecchini - Washington Correspondent * Jennifer Johnson - Washington Correspondent *

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- Chief Political Correspondent (Ottawa) * Mercedes Stephenson - Ottawa Bureau Chief * Crystal Goomansingh - London Bureau Chief * Redmond Shannon - London Correspondent * Mike Armstrong - Quebec Correspondent * Neetu Garcha - BC Correspondent * Heather Yourex-West - Alberta Correspondent * Ross Lord - Atlantic Correspondent

Substitute anchors

Substitute anchors have included: * Chris Gailus (

) *Coleen Christie (

) * Eric Sorenson - Senior National Affairs Correspondent * Sophie Lui (

) *

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(

) *

- Chief Political Correspondent *Gord Steinke ( Global Edmonton)

Former on-air staff

* Patrick Brown: briefly Global's Beijing Bureau, returned to CBC Television as an independent correspondent *

: now chief investigative correspondent (was host of ''

'' until it was cancelled in 2016) * Kevin Newman (anchor/executive editor, 2001–2010): formerly host of '' Kevin Newman Live'' on CTV News Channel and

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's '' Question Period'' *

(weekend anchor, 2005–2008; Europe bureau chief, 2008–2010): now 6:00 pm anchor at

* Sean Mallen: former Europe Bureau Chief (based in London), now reporter for Global Toronto *

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: resigned 2015 * Carol Wang: Weeknights (Mandarin anchor, 2012–2016)

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: The West Block (Anchor, 2017–2018), now the host of CBC's

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*Shirlee Engel: formerly the “National Affairs Correspondent”, now with Compass Rose * Robin Gill - (anchor/primary substitute anchor, 2008–2021): British Columbia correspondent (based in Vancouver)

Former Reporters

* Jas Johal * Mike Edgel

Current On-Air Reporters

* Redmond Shannon (part-time with London)

References

External links

Global News - Global National

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