Quebecor Media

Quebecor Media Inc.

Type	Subsidiary of public company
Industry	Diversified media and broadcasting
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Key people	Pierre Karl Péladeau, CEO Pierre Francoeur, President;
Products	Cable television Newspapers Broadcasting
Services	Broadcasting Film production Publishing
Parent	Quebecor Inc. CDP Capital d’Amérique Investissements Inc.
Divisions	Osprey Media Sun Media Groupe TVA Vidéotron
Website	www.quebecor.com

Quebecor Media Inc. is a Canadian media company. Quebecor Inc. owns the controlling interest with 54.72% while CDP Capital d’Amérique Investissements Inc. owns the remaining 45.28%. It owns and operates the following companies:

• Vidéotron (largest cable TV and internet service provider in Quebec)
• www.StealTheDeal.com (a daily deal site acquired in April 2011)

• Sun Media Corporation (newspapers)
  • Toronto Sun
  • Ottawa Sun
  • Winnipeg Sun
  • Calgary Sun
  • Edmonton Sun
  • London Free Press
  • Le Journal de Montréal
  • Le Journal de Québec
  • The Recorder and Times - Brockville, Ontario
  • Daily Herald Tribune - Grande Prairie, Alberta
  • Stratford Beacon Herald - Ontario
  • St. Thomas Times-Journal - Ontario
  • Fort McMurray Today - Alberta
  • Daily Miner and News - Kenora, Ontario
  • Daily Graphic - Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
  • Simcoe Reformer - Ontario
  • Woodstock Sentinel Review - Ontario
  • Dunnville Chronicle - Ontario
  • 24H - English: Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver; French: Montreal

• Osprey Media (newspapers: Acquired in 2007, Osprey was operated as a separate division of Quebecor Media until the end of 2010. It was merged with Sun Media Corporation on January 1, 2011.)
  • Barrie Examiner
  • Belleville Intelligencer
  • Brantford Expositor
  • Chatham Daily News
  • Cobourg Daily Star
  • Cornwall Standard Freeholder
  • Kingston Whig-Standard
  • Niagara Falls Review
  • North Bay Nugget
  • Northern News
  • Orillia Packet and Times
  • Owen Sound Sun Times
  • Pembroke Observer
  • Peterborough Examiner
  • Port Hope Evening Guide
  • Sarnia Observer
  • Sault Star
  • St. Catharines Standard
  • Sudbury Star
  • Timmins Daily Press
  • Welland Tribune

• Groupe TVA (broadcasting properties)
  • CFTM-TV Montreal
  • CFCM-TV Quebec City
  • CFER-TV Rimouski
  • CHLT-TV Sherbrooke
  • CHEM-TV Trois Riviers
  • CJPM-TV Chicoutimi
  • CKXT-TV Toronto
  • addikTV
  • Argent
  • Évasion (co-owned with Groupe Serdy)
  • Canal Indigo
  • Le Canal Nouvelles
  • CASA
  • The Cave (co-owned with Shaw Media)
  • Mlle
  • Mystery TV (co-owned with Shaw Media)
  • Prise 2
  • Shopping TVA
  • Yoopa
  • TVA Group Subsidiaries
    • TVA Films
    • TVA Publishing
    • TVA Productions (formerly JPL Productions )

• Canoe.ca (Canadian internet portal)
  • ASL Internet (technology company)
• Archambault stores (largest music store chain in Eastern Canada)
• Editions Quebecor Media-largest group of publishing houses in Quebec
• Distribution Select -Canada's largest independent CD and video distributor
• Nurun Inc. (interactive agency)
• Le SuperClub Vidéotron -the largest chain of video stores in Québec
  • Jumbo Video (small video chain operated by Le SuperClub Vidéotron)

Quebecor Media's wide range of media properties enables it to execute "convergence" strategies that are sometimes criticized. When the TVA television network was running the program Star Académie (sort of a French-language "American Idol"-type program), it was heavily cross-promoted: TVA would mention it in the "entertainment" segment of news broadcasts, the newspaper Le Journal de Montréal would run several pages on it, magazines would run articles on it, and so forth. The show was even hosted and produced by company CEO Pierre-Karl Péladeau's girlfriend, TV personality Julie Snyder.

• Defunct publications
  • Sunday Express (Montreal)

Corporate governance

Board of directors:

• Serge Gouin -- Chairman
• André Delisle
• Jean La Couture
• A. Michel Lavigne
• Samuel Minzberg
• Brian Mulroney
• Pierre Karl Péladeau -- President, CEO and President and CEO of Quebecor Inc., Sun Media Corporation
• Normand Provost

See also

• Torstar
  • Metroland Media Group
  • Star Media Group
• Postmedia Network
• The Woodbridge Company and CTVglobemedia

External links

• Official Quebecor Media Inc. website
• CRTC chart of Quebecor Media Inc.'s assets (PDF)