Owned and operated by network parent Corus Entertainment, it is a sister station to CHNB-DT in Saint John, New Brunswick.

The two stations share a studio on Gottingen Street in downtown Halifax; CIHF-DT's transmitter is located on Washmill Lake Drive on the city's west side.

[2][3] At the time, MITV was the only over-the-air independent television station in the area, with studios and main operation centre in Halifax, and all other functions in Saint John.

In 1995, MITV's Saint John offices were moved out of the old CHSJ building and into a new facility in Brunswick Square.

Within a year of new ownership and its resulting reorganization and marketing focus, the station became profitable for the first time in its short history.

[4] On December 17, 2012, Global Maritimes officially began operations at its new home on Göttingen Street in Downtown Halifax.

The anchor sits behind a desk in front of a green screen, onto which a virtual reality studio is digitally inserted.

[6] On the same day, the station provided more details about its upcoming Morning News, and announced that up to a dozen new reporters, producers, and videographers would be hired at its bureaus in Halifax, Sydney, Moncton, Saint John, and Fredericton.

This resulted in presentation of the weekday Halifax and New Brunswick 6 p.m. newscasts to be moved to Global's studios in Montreal.

In order to accommodate such a time zone difference and maximize simultaneous substitution opportunities with the American stations carried on cable, CIHF's prime time schedule deviates from that of most other Global O&Os, with some shows airing earlier in the evening, and occasionally on different nights, compared to other Global stations.