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Category Television - Global Date 10/11/2006 |
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Global Television Announces Additional U.S. Primetime Content Online - Survivor: Cook Islands
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Canada's #1 Reality Series Tops Premium Broadband Menu Now Available on www.globaltv.com/survivor
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(TORONTO) - Global Television today announced Survivor: Cook Islands as part of its menu of online content currently available on www.globaltv.com . Survivor: Cook Islands , Canada's #1 reality show, joins the smash hit Deal or No Deal as the latest U.S. primetime series to be added to the network's online programming library. Key Canadian original offerings include: Global National with Kevin Newman , Global Currents , Falcon Beach and The Jane Show .
The launch of the globaltv.com premium video player is a successful continuation in the network's broadband video rollout - the free, advertiser-supported program offerings provide Canadian online users an opportunity to create a personalized Global viewing experience on demand.
Survivor: Cook Islands will be streamed online by noon the next day following its television broadcast premiere, with the four most current episodes archived and available on a customised menu. Users can access this programming by clicking the "VIDEO" tab located on the www.globaltv.com home page or at www.globaltv.com/survivor.
Survivor: Cook Islands - Hosted by Jeff Probst, Canada's favourite reality program...this 13 th season of the 'Survivor' phenomenon on Global now comes to fans online. Featuring the series' most ethnically diverse cast to date, the castaways are organized into four tribes divided along ethnic lines (African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic and White) before merging in a later episode.
Global Television is owned by CanWest MediaWorks Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CanWest Global Communications Corp, (CanWest) (NYSE: CWG; TSX: CGS and CGS.A, www.canwestglobal.com ). CanWest, an international media company, is Canada's largest media company. In addition to owning Global Television, CanWest is Canada's largest publisher of daily newspapers, and also owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in conventional television, out-of-home advertising, specialty cable channels, Web sites and radio networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
CanWest Interactive owns an extensive portfolio of consumer and business to business websites, including: the canada.com network, one of Canada's leading news and information online destination; FP Infomart, Canada's largest print and video data subscription service; and a family of leading online classified sites including working.com, driving.ca, remembering.ca, celebrating.com and connecting.com.
CanWest Interactive is 74% indirectly owned by CanWest Global Communications Corp, (NYSE: CWG; TSX: CGS.SV and CGS.NV, www.canwestglobal.com), and 26% indirectly owned by the CanWest MediaWorks Income Fund (TSX: CWM.UN; www.cwmincomefund.com. CanWest Global Communications Corp., an international media company, is Canada's largest media company and largest publisher of daily newspapers. CanWest also owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in free-to-air and subscription-based television networks, out-of-home advertising, web sites, and radio stations and networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
Survivor: Cook Islands is hosted by Jeff Probst and produced by SEG, Inc. Mark Burnett and Tom Shelly are the executive producers. Doug McCallie and Kevin Greene are co-executive producers. SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS is internationally distributed by CBS Paramount International Television.
CBS Paramount International Television is one of the most diverse suppliers of current and library programming to the international television marketplace featuring drama, comedy, talk, court, game shows, entertainment news, news, reality and movies of the week from a catalog of over 70,000 hours. Programming from CPITV can be seen in over 200 countries and in more than 30 languages. Additionally, the Division supervises the development and production of television programming customized for the international marketplace and producing product with international partners. CPITV offers programming from CBS Paramount Network Television, CBS Paramount Domestic Television, CBS Productions, King World Productions, CBS News and Spelling Television. CBS Paramount International Television is a division of CBS Paramount Television, a unit of CBS Corporation.
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