Global Television announced Survivor: Cook
Islands as part of its menu of online content currently available on
www.globaltv.com. Survivor: Cook Islands, Canada’s No.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 13th 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.
