Kevin Shea is the new president of the Global Television Network. Shea, who joined Global four-and-a-half years ago from Atlantis Communications, was initially president and coo of eastern operations. He will now be responsible for all of Global’s conventional television stations in Canada.

CanWest hopes to pick up several new tv properties as part of a deal signed last November by CanWest, Corus Entertainment and Shaw Communications that would split among them the assets of WIC Western International Communications. The crtc began hearings in Vancouver April 25 on the proposal to break up wic.