List of assets owned by Bell Media
This is a list of assets currently owned by Bell Media, a subsidiary of BCE Inc.
Note that this list does not include BCE's 28% interest in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, which itself owns a majority interest in the digital specialty channels Leafs TV, NBA TV Canada, and GolTV Canada. This interest is held by BCE through a different subsidiary, not through Bell Media.
This list also does not enumerate the various telecommunications or retail assets owned by BCE. For further information on those properties, refer to the article on Bell Canada.
CTV Inc.
CTV Inc., the wholly owned television broadcasting division of Bell Media.
CTV Inc. owns and operates the following stations, specialty channels, & pay-per-view & video-on-demand services:
Conventional television
- Calgary, Alberta - CFCN
- Edmonton, Alberta - CFRN
- Halifax, Nova Scotia - CJCH
- Kitchener, Ontario - CKCO
- Moncton, New Brunswick - CKCW
- Montreal, Quebec - CFCF
- North Bay, Ontario - CKNY
- Ottawa, Ontario - CJOH
- Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, CIPA
- Regina, Saskatchewan - CKCK
- Saint John, New Brunswick - CKLT
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - CFQC
- Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario - CHBX
- Sudbury, Ontario - CICI
- Sydney, Nova Scotia - CJCB
- Timmins, Ontario - CITO
- Toronto, Ontario - CFTO
- Vancouver, British Columbia - CIVT
- Winnipeg, Manitoba - CKY
- Yorkton, Saskatchewan - CICC
- Barrie/Toronto, Ontario - CKVR
- Dawson Creek, British Columbia - CJDC
- Pembroke/Ottawa, Ontario - CHRO
- London, Ontario - CFPL
- Terrace/Kitimat, British Columbia - CFTK
- Wheatley/Windsor, Ontario - CHWI
- Victoria/Vancouver, British Columbia - CIVI
- Calgary/Edmonton, Alberta - CTV Two Alberta
- Atlantic Canada - CTV Two Atlantic
Specialty channels
Category A
- Bravo
- BookTelevision
- BNN Bloomberg (licensed by Bloomberg L.P.)
- Canal D
- Canal Vie
- The Comedy Network
- CP24
- E! (licensed by NBCUniversal)
- Fashion Television
- Gusto
- The Movie Network
- TMN Encore
- MTV (licensed by Viacom Media Networks)
- MTV2 (licensed by Viacom Media Networks)
- Much
- Space
- Super Écran
- Vrak
- Z
Category B
- Cinépop
- Comedy Gold (sale to Wow Unlimited Media pending)[1]
- Investigation
- Investigation Discovery (licensed by Discovery Inc.)
Category C
Pay per view
Video on demand
CTV Specialty Television
CTV Specialty Television Inc. is jointly owned by Bell Media and ESPN Inc., with 80% and 20% voting interests respectively, and approximately 70% and 30% equity interests respectively. ESPN itself is 80% owned by The Walt Disney Company and 20% owned by Hearst Corporation.
Any percentages below refer to the portion of each channel owned by CTV Specialty, with the balance in each case being owned by additional partners such as Discovery Inc.
Category A
- Discovery (joint venture with Discovery Inc.)
- RDS Info
Category B
- Animal Planet (joint venture with Discovery Inc. and BBC Studios)
- Discovery Science (joint venture with Discovery Inc.)
- Discovery Velocity (joint venture with Discovery Inc.)
- ESPN Classic
Category C
- Réseau des sports (RDS)
- The Sports Network (TSN)
Other assets
- Dome Productions (production facilities) (via CTV Specialty Television Inc., which owns 50% total)
- Exploration Production Inc. and Exploration Distribution Inc. (Discovery Channel Canada's in-house production and distribution companies; 56.06% owned by Bell Media)
Publishing
- Movie Entertainment (magazine run by The Movie Network)
Bell Media Radio
Bell Media Radio, the wholly owned radio broadcasting division of Bell Media. Through Bell Media Radio, Bell Media also owns Bell Media Radio Sales and operates a localized version of the iHeartRadio online radio platform owned by iHeartMedia.[2]
Bell Media Radio owns and operates the following stations:
On February 14, 2018, the CRTC approved an Bell Media Inc. (Bell Media's) application to acquire from Larche Communications Inc. the assets of the four English-language commercial radio stations CICZ-FM Midland, CICX-FM Orillia, CJOS-FM Owen Sound and CICS-FM Sudbury, Ontario.[3]
Other assets
- Agincourt Productions Inc. (Bell Media's in-house production company)
- Autohound (unknown equity interest)
- CTV Music (music publishing)
- TheLoop.ca
- Sympatico.ca (French-language version of TheLoop.ca)
- Megawheels Technologies Inc. (4%)
- Astral Out-of-Home
- Bell Media Original Production (division used to produce original programming for Bell Media-owned networks)
Dormant or Shuttered businesses
The following companies are divisions of Bell Media that are no longer active or been absorbed into another part of the company
- Craig Media (1948-2004)
- CHUM Limited (1945-2007)
- CKX-TV (1955-2009)
- CKNX-TV (1955-2009)
- Astral Media (1961-2013)
- WTSN (2001-2003)
- Telegram Corporation (1960-1971)
- Access Media Group (1994-2008)
- Mid-Canada Communications (1980-1990)
- Baton Broadcast System (1994-1998)
- CTVglobemedia (2001-2011)
- Baton Broadcasting (1971-1998)
- NHL Network Canada - 21.42% and managing partner
- BravoFACT[4]
- MuchFACT[5]
See also
References
- ^ "The Cartt.ca Interview: Bell Media president Randy Lennox talks rich uncles, teeter-totters and Ty Cobb". Cartt.ca. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
- ^ "iHeartRadio joins Canada's streaming market through partnership with Bell". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2018-57, CICZ-FM Midland, CICX-FM Orillia, CJOS-FM Owen Sound and CICS-FM Sudbury – Acquisition of assets, CRTC, February 14, 2018
- ^ "Bell Media ends BravoFACT, MuchFACT". Retrieved 2018-02-14.
- ^ "Bell Media ends BravoFACT, MuchFACT". Retrieved 2018-02-14.