Global Toronto airs
Global News Morning from 6 AM to 9:00 AM
ET on weekdays. It is hosted by Candace Daniel, Miranda Anthistle, and Ross Hull. The show is produced from studios located at
Corus Quay Building at 25 Dockside Drive in Toronto. In 2000, parent company
Canwest acquired the broadcasting assets of
Western International Communications. Among them was
CHCH (OnTV), which relaunched in February 2001 as CH Hamilton and the
CH system was launched later that year. CHCH debuted
CH Morning Live on February 13, 2001, and currently airs from 5:30 AM to 9:00 AM ET weekdays. It was renamed to
Morning Live in 2007 when CH became E! and continues to air after the station was sold to
Channel Zero in 2009.
History The station debuted a morning news program on July 14, 2003, under the title
Global News Morning; it was broadcast weekdays 6 AM to 9 AM
ET. The program was renamed
Morning News in 2006 in conjunction with Global's network-wide rebranding exercise. This show was broadcast from 81 Barber Greene Road (
Global Toronto Office) in
Don Mills from 2003 to 2009. The newscast was cancelled in January 2009 due to low ratings, and was replaced by a simulcast of then-sister station
CHCH-TV's more popular
Morning Live show, originating in
Hamilton, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. The CHCH simulcast was dropped in August 2009 after Canwest sold the Hamilton station to
Channel Zero; since then, Global Toronto had aired second-run lifestyle programming in the morning timeslot. On June 1, 2011, Shaw Communications announced that it would relaunch a morning newscast on Global Toronto in the fall of 2011 under the title
The Morning Show, instead of using the
Morning News moniker found on other Global O&Os. Kris Reyes,
Liza Fromer, Dave Gerry and Daru Dhillon were named as the anchors for the three-hour-long show. It debuted on October 11, 2011. On August 27, 2012, Dhillon left the show. On the same day, CIII launched
The News at Noon. Antony Robart took over Dhillon's position.
The News at Noon was produced in the same Bloor Street studio as
The Morning Show. On December 12, 2012, it was announced that
The Morning Show would be expanded in early 2013 to include an additional half-hour that would be broadcast nationally. In June 2016, long-time host of
The Morning Show, Liza Fromer, was let go from the station after her contract was not renewed. Her position would not be filled on the local morning show and Carolyn Mackenzie would take her place on the national edition. In 2017,
Corus Entertainment launched two other local morning news programs on their affiliates
CHEX Peterborough (now Global Peterborough) and
CKWS Kingston (now Global Kingston), also branded
The Morning Show. These shows follow a similar format to other
Global News Morning programs east of Alberta, with cut-ins to the Toronto version of the show for national and international news headlines. On January 28, 2019,
Corus Entertainment announced the expansion of the national edition of
The Morning Show, extending the show's running time from half an hour to one hour beginning in early March 2019. On February 12, 2019, it was also announced that the local edition of
The Morning Show from 6 am-9 am would be rebranded as
Global News Morning, following the naming-scheme of other Global morning shows across the country. Additionally, hosts Jeff McArthur and Carolyn Mackenzie will move exclusively to the extended national edition of
The Morning Show, while
Global News at 11 co-anchor Antony Robart and former
Breakfast Television host
Jennifer Valentyne will become the anchors of
Global News Morning, along with Liem Vu and Marianne Dimain. The changes took place March 4, 2019. At the same time,
The Morning Show was also rebranded to
Global News Morning on Global Peterborough and Global Kingston. Jennifer Valentyne (laid off July 2020) was replaced with Candace Daniel in 2021.
Former personalities on Global News Morning •
Robin Gill - anchor, 2008–2009 (now with
Global National) •
Anne-Marie Mediwake - anchor, 2006–2007; later promoted to
Global News Hour Toronto And
CBC News Network. Previously with
CBC Toronto, now with CTV's national morning show
Your Morning. •
Jennifer Valentyne - anchor 2019–2020 ==Global Montreal==