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CFRE-DT
Regina, Saskatchewan; Canada;
Channels	Digital: 11 (VHF); Virtual: 11;
Branding	Global Regina (general); Global News (newscasts)
Programming
Affiliations	Global
Ownership
Owner	Corus Entertainment; (Corus Television Limited Partnership);
Sister stations	CFSK-DT
History
First air date	September 6, 1987 (37 years ago)
Former call signs	CFRE-TV (1987–2011)
Former channel number(s)	Analogue:; 11 (VHF, 1987–2011)
Former affiliations	Independent (1987–1997)
Call sign meaning	Regina
Technical information
Licensing authority	CRTC
ERP	17.3 kW
HAAT	300.0 m (984 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	50°35′45″N 105°4′10″W / 50.59583°N 105.06944°W
Links
Website	Global Regina

CFRE-DT (channel 11) is a television station in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, part of the Global Television Network. The station is owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, and maintains studios on Hoffer Drive and McDonald Street on the northeast side of Regina; its transmitter is located near Louis Riel Trail/Highway 11, northwest of the city.

History

Logo used while as *STV*, used from 1987–1997. Shared with CFSK Saskatoon.

The Communications Tower (associated with the local early broadcasts in 1987) is the tallest structure in Saskatchewan at over 300 metres (984 ft) with lights and top antenna. The Tower was constructed by Towerectors, a company that specialized in constructing Communications Towers. Towerectors was owned and operated by Gerhard F. Hein and George Anderson.

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.

News operation

Former logo of CFSK-TV and CFRE-TV from 1997 to 2006

CFRE-DT presently broadcasts 24½ hours of local newscasts each week (with 4½ hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station also airs the public affairs program Focus Saskatchewan.

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.^[2] On August 11, 2011, it was announced that Heather Anderson would anchor the program.^[3]

In late 2011, CFRE-DT became the first television station in the Regina market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. On August 20, 2012, CFRE expanded its half-hour 10 p.m. newscast to one hour, and changed the name of the program from Prime News to News Hour Final (it has since been renamed Global News at 10); the expansion was part of a tangible benefits package mandated as a condition of Canwest Global's sale to Shaw Communications.^[4]

Starting in August 2015, Global News at 10 and all weekend news programming was being produced out of Toronto; anchors were provided by the centralized news operation, but the broadcasts continued to feature local reporting. However, local news anchors have since returned to the weekday broadcast on Global News at 10. The program is hosted by Global Regina anchors Carlyle Fiset and Elise Darwish, who also produce the newscasts at 6 and 10 for Global Saskatoon.^[5] Although the newscasts are anchored from Regina, Global Regina no longer has a permanent evening weather specialist. Instead, meteorologist Peter Quinlan from Global Saskatoon anchors Global Regina's weather reports. Weekend newscasts are still produced in Toronto and anchored by Mark Carcasole.

Technical information

Subchannel

Channel	Video	Aspect	Short name	Programming^[6]
11.1	1080i	16:9	CFRE-HD	Main CFRE-DT programming / Global

Analogue-to-digital conversion

On August 10, 2011, three weeks before Canadian television stations in CRTC-designated mandatory markets were slated to transition from analogue to digital broadcasts, CFRE flash cut its digital signal into operation on VHF channel 11.^[7] On June 13, 2019, the CRTC approved a request by Corus to shut down CFRE-TV-2 in Fort Qu'Appelle.^[8]