Global TV confirms move to Portage and Main
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Global Television has confirmed it is moving to the heart of the city.
As first reported by the Free Press in January, the television station was planning to abandon its long-time home on St. Mary’s Road and move its 88 employees into Canwest Place at the corner of Portage and Main.
The move became official on Monday when staff was told about the move.
“We are pleased to announce that we have confirmed Global Winnipeg’s new location. We will be moving to the 30th Floor of Canwest Place. The expected timeline is September 1, 2008,” the e-mail said.
Global has been broadcasting out of a refurbished Safeway store since Izzy Asper launched his first television station there in 1975. The new space, which used to house the national news desk of its parent company, Canwest Global Communications Corp., until it was moved to Ottawa more than a year ago, will allow the station to update all of its technology as well as broadcast in high definition.
Global will be the second television station to move downtown in slightly more than two years. CTV Winnipeg, formerly CKY-TV, abandoned its home of nearly a half-century at Polo Park Shopping Centre in the spring of 2006.
Winnipeg’s other mainstream television stations are already downtown. CBC is headquartered on Portage Avenue while City-TV is based at The Forks. Specialty channel APTN is also based downtown.
geoff.kirbyson@freepress.mb.ca