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Global News

Canadian mainstream, center to center-left

Owned byOwned by Corus Entertainment, a Toronto-based Canadian media company. Corus was controlled for decades by the Shaw family through a voting trust. A debt-for-equity recapitalization approved by Canada's broadcast regulator (the CRTC) in 2026 moved control to lenders, who would hold about 99% of a new parent company.
FundingMostly television advertising revenue and cable and satellite carriage fees paid to Corus. It has no public subsidy of the CBC kind. Corus has been under heavy debt strain as TV ad revenue has fallen, which led to the restructuring and to cuts at its newsrooms.
On the administrationmixed

Background

Global Television began in Ontario in 1974. It grew into a national network and became part of Canwest, and later Shaw Media. Corus Entertainment bought Shaw Media in 2016 for about C$2.65 billion, and Global News became Corus's main news brand. It includes the Global National evening newscast, local stations, the 16x9 newsmagazine, and the globalnews.ca website. Corus was spun off from Shaw in the late 1990s, but the Shaw family kept voting control through a family trust. In 2019 Shaw cut its corporate ties with Corus by selling a large stake in the broadcaster. Corus's finances have since worsened, with heavy debt and falling TV ad revenue, and this led to newsroom layoffs and a 2026 recapitalization. Lenders would swap about C$500 million of debt for roughly 99% ownership of the new parent, and the CRTC approved the change in control. Media Bias/Fact Check rates Global News left-center with high factual reporting, and AllSides and Ground News rate it lean left. A Reuters Institute survey found that about 71% of respondents trusted its news, the highest among major English-language Canadian providers. Its editorial stance is that of a mainstream commercial broadcaster. As a Canadian outlet, it frames U.S. politics mainly through effects on Canada.

Sources

  1. Global News - Wikipedia
  2. Corus Entertainment - Wikipedia
  3. Corus no longer under Shaw's control after huge debt restructuring (Daily Hive)
  4. Broadcasting Notice of Consultation CRTC 2026-103
  5. Global News - Bias and Credibility (Media Bias/Fact Check)
  6. Global News Media Bias (AllSides)
  7. Corus to buy Shaw Media in $2.65B mega merger (Global News)

Profile compiled 2026-10-27; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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