CFRE-TV
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Regina, Saskatchewan Canada |
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| Branding | Global Regina (general) Global News (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 11 (VHF) Virtual: 11.1 () |
| Translators | 6 CFRE-TV-2 Fort Qu'Appelle |
| Affiliations | Global |
| Owner | Corus Entertainment |
| First air date | September 6, 1987 |
| Call letters' meaning | CF REgina |
| Former callsigns | CFRE-TV (1987–2011) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 11 (VHF, 1987–2011) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1987–1997) |
| Transmitter power | 17.3 kW |
| Height | 300.0 m |
| Transmitter coordinates | 50°35′45″N 105°4′10″W / 50.59583°N 105.06944°W |
| Website | Global Regina |
CFRE-DT, VHF channel 11, is a Global owned-and-operated television station located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The station is owned by Corus Entertainment. CFRE's studios are located on Hoffer Drive and McDonald Street on the northeast side of Regina, and its transmitter is located near Louis Riel Trail/Highway 11, northwest of Regina.
The station has one rebroadcast transmitter, on channel 6 in Fort Qu'Appelle (CFRE-TV-2), operating at 0.01 kW in power. This station can also be seen on Access Communications and Sasktel Max channel 5. On Shaw Direct, the channel is available on 376 (Classic) or 027 (Advanced), and in high definition on channel 021 (Classic) or 521 (Advanced). There is a high definition feed offered on Access Communications digital channel 508 and Sasktel Max channel 305.
The station first signed on the air on September 6, 1987, under the ownership of Canwest. CFRE and its sister station in Saskatoon, CFSK, were branded as "STV", and became part of the CanWest Global System in 1990 until the Global Television Network brand was expanded to all of Canwest's stations in 1997.
CFRE-DT presently broadcasts 24½ hours of local newscasts each week (with 4½ hours on weekdays, and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). As of August 2015, Global News at 10 and all weekend news programming is produced out of Toronto; anchors are provided by the centralized news operation, but the broadcasts feature local reporting..
On May 31, 2011, Shaw Media announced that a new local weekday morning newscast would begin broadcasting on CFRE in late-August 2011. The morning newscast runs for three hours from 6 to 9 a.m. On August 11, 2011, it was announced that Heather Anderson would anchor the program.
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