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List Of Global Television Network Personalities
National Anchors/Hosts *Dawna Friesen – Global National *Farah Nasser – Global National *Mercedes Stephenson – The West Block *Carolyn Jarvis – Senior Investigative Correspondent *David Akin - chief political correspondent *Cheryl Hickey – Entertainment Tonight Canada ''ET Canada'' (previously referred to as ''Entertainment Tonight Canada'') is a Canadian entertainment news television series, using the same format as the American entertainment newsmagazine ''Entertainment Tonight''. ''ET Canada'' is a broadcas ... *Jeff McArthur - The Morning Show *Carolyn MacKenzie - The Morning Show Global BC Anchors *Sonia Sunger - Global News Morning *Coleen Christie - Global News at Noon *Chris Gailus - Global News Hour at 6 *Sophie Lui - Global News at 5 and Global News Hour at 6 *Anne Drewa - Consumer Matters on the News Hour *Jordan Armstrong - Global News at 11 *Jennifer Palma - Global News Morning and Global News at Noon - weekend *Sarah MacDonald - Global News Hour at 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawna Friesen
Dawna Friesen is a Canadian television journalist, currently the chief anchor and executive editor of ''Global National''.L. ScrivenerDawna Friesen: From shy prairie girl to Global News anchor ''Toronto Star'', September 20, 2010. She was previously a foreign correspondent for NBC News. Career She started reading news at a hybrid television and radio station in Brandon, Manitoba, in 1985 and from there went on to report for other stations in Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto. By the late 1990s she was recruited by national networks in Canada and the US and joined NBC News. While at NBC, Friesen covered stories out of London as well as the Middle East, including the Israeli Palestinian conflict and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the kidnapping and murder of ''The Wall Street Journal'' reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi. She won a News & Documentary Emmy Award as a correspondent in NBC's coverage of the 2008 United States presidential electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global National
''Global National'' is the English language flagship national newscast of Canada's Global Television Network. Editorial and production staff are based out of Global's national news centre at Global BC in Burnaby, British Columbia, with Dawna Friesen presenting from the Global BC studios Mondays to Thursdays, and Farah Nasser presenting from the Global Toronto 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, Ottawa. In addition to Global's owned-and-operated stations (O&Os), ''Global National'' also airs on affiliate CHFD-DT in Thunder Bay, Ontario and independent station 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 Shaw Multicultural Channel in Vancouver, British Columbia and Calgary, Alberta. History Global's first tenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farah Nasser
Farah Nasser is a Canadian journalist. In May 2015, she was named by Shaw Media as the co-anchor of Global Toronto's 5:30pm and 6pm newscast, alongside Alan Carter. Previous to this role, she was a reporter and anchor with CablePulse24 in Toronto in 2010. She previously anchored Citytv Toronto's City''News'' weekend editions at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. with Roger Petersen from 2007 until she was laid off on January 19, 2010. CITY-TV announced cuts to several news programs and staff. The weekend news was cancelled, and Nasser was part of a company-wide layoff that affected 6% of CITY's staff, and several on-air presenters. In June 2022, Global News announced that Nasser would be moving from Global Toronto to join Global National, as weekend anchor. Early life Nasser was born and raised in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, and moved to Toronto to work as a journalist at Newstalk 1010 (1999-2003), Toronto 1 (2003-2005) before joining /A\ Channel News in Barrie (2005-2007). In 2001, at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes Stephenson
Mercedes Stephenson (born c. 1981) is a Canadian journalist and military analyst, currently the host of Global Television Network's Sunday morning talk show ''The West Block''. She was born and raised in Calgary. She received a BA in political science from the University of Calgary. She did post-graduate studies at the University of Calgary Centre for Military and Strategic Studies. She studied economics and media ethics at Georgetown University. She also worked as an intern at The Pentagon and was a visiting research student at the MIT Center for International Studies. Stephenson moved to Toronto to become host of a weekly public affairs television program. She later moved to Ottawa where she became parliamentary reporter for CTV News Channel and host of the political affairs program ''Power Play''. From 2001 to 2004, she was president of the Society for Military and Strategic Studies. She was the youngest North American military analyst covering the Iraq War. She reported fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The West Block
''The West Block'' is a Canadian news and political affairs television series that debuted on November 6, 2011 on the Global Television Network."CTV’s Question Period to face competition" '''', September 9, 2011. The name of the program is taken from the of . The series follows a |
Carolyn Jarvis
Carolyn Michelle Jarvis (born July 20, 1979) is a Canadian television journalist, currently the chief correspondent for Global's newsmagazine program '' 16x9''. Jarvis was born in North York, Ontario and grew up in Richmond, British Columbia. She earned a degree in music, but established a career in investigative journalism and as a news anchor. Early life Jarvis was born in North York, Ontario in 1979 and moved with her family to Richmond, British Columbia shortly thereafter. Jarvis earned a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance and moved to Toronto to pursue a career in musical theatre. Career In 2001 Jarvis was a cast member on '' U8TV: The Lofters'', where she produced content and hosted shows on the Independent Film Channel and The Life Network among others. The following year she joined the Weather Network as a forecaster and earned a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society certification, while taking night courses at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Akin
David Akin is a Canadian reporter, currently the chief political correspondent for Global News. Akin's career began in 1993 with ''The Packet and Times'' in Orillia, Ontario, as the paper's city hall reporter. In 1995, he moved to ''The Chronicle Journal'' in Thunder Bay, where he worked as a senior reporter and joined ''The Hamilton Spectator'' and then the ''National Post'', followed by ''The Globe and Mail''. From 2001 to 2008, Akin was a parliamentary correspondent for CTV News before joining Canwest News Service (now known as Postmedia) as a national affairs correspondent. At CTV, Akin won a Gemini Award for his reporting. ''The Globe and Mail'' reported that he resigned from Canwest on June 10, 2010, to become the first reporter for Sun Media's new all news cable service. From 2011 to 2015, he was the national bureau chief for Sun Media and the Sun News Network and hosted ''The Daily Brief'' and later, the hour-long show ''Battleground''. He was briefly a freelance reporte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Hickey
Cheryl Hickey (born January 8, 1976) is host of ''ET Canada'', an entertainment news magazine for Global Television Network which launched on September 12, 2005. Early life Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, to John Patrick Hickey (1942 - January 13, 2023) and Lori Hickey (née Laycock). Cheryl attended West Hill Secondary School in Owen Sound, where she was Student Council President. At the age of 17 while working at a local cable station, Cheryl got the "Mass media bug" and since then knew she wanted to be a reporter. She attended Fanshawe College in London, Ontario where she studied Radio and Television Arts. Career After graduating, she returned to Owen Sound where she worked at the K106.5, first as a correspondent and later as an afternoon news anchor. A year-and-a-half later, she moved on to The New VR in Barrie, Ontario. There she worked initially as a production assistant, then later became a writer for their six o'clock newscast. At the same time, she learned how to operate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment Tonight Canada
''ET Canada'' (previously referred to as ''Entertainment Tonight Canada'') is a Canadian entertainment news television series, using the same format as the American entertainment newsmagazine ''Entertainment Tonight''. ''ET Canada'' is a broadcast show that airs back-to-back with the American version on most of Global's stations. ''ET Canada'' is hosted by longtime Global Toronto entertainment host Cheryl Hickey and presented by reporters Roz Weston, Sangita Patel, Carlos Bustamante and Keshia Chanté. ''ETC Live'' is an online show in connection with ET Canada, that airs weekdays via Facebook and YouTube, shot live with expanded coverage of entertainment news. It is an interactive show, allowing viewers to submit commentary as Weston, Chanté and Graeme O'Neil debate topics. In 2021, Global announced the launch of a weekend edition of ''ET Canada;'' this version aired on Saturdays with host Sangita Patel and premiered on 18 September 2021. The weekend edition wasn't renewed f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Morning Show (Canadian TV Program)
''The Morning Show'' is a Canadian breakfast television show airing on Global. The program was first shown only on Global Toronto as a three-hour local morning show, but now serves exclusively as a national entertainment and lifestyle program. The program is hosted by Jeff McArthur and Carolyn Mackenzie. It debuted on October 11, 2011, from a ground level storefront studio at the Corus Entertainment Building (formerly Shaw Media Building) on 121 Bloor Street East in Downtown Toronto. On September 16, 2016, the show moved out of their Bloor Street Studio to the ET Canada studios. This was a temporary studio while a new one was being constructed at Corus Quay. The show moved to its new studios at Corus Quay on November 21, 2016. From its launch to March 1, 2019, ''The Morning Show'' served as Global Toronto's local morning news program from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m., followed by a half-hour segment broadcast nationally at 9:00 a.m., with a focus on entertainment and lifestyle to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |