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Newman moves, crescent dies, with Global’s “greater-than” changes

TORONTO – No one can accuse the new Global Television leadership of not shaking things up. The story’s been told many times already. Second-place national network Global Television sweeps out a number of senior executives over the past 18 months, bringing in a whole new team to fire up the stations, bring in new programming and basically freshen the place up. In the not-too-distant past, it was Global which held the ratings lead over CTV. Nowadays though, CTV can claim often upwards of 15 of the top 20 shows on TV each week, although of late, Global has been making...