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In 1982, the Griffiths' media assets were again floated on the public markets in a restructured form via WIC. The Griffiths retained Western Broadcasting, which in turn held all of WIC's Class A voting shares; the Class B shares were sold to the public. Class B shares did not generally provide voting
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With the sale of Canwest's broadcasting assets to Shaw a decade later, the Shaw family at that point controlled almost all of the assets of the former WIC – through either Shaw or Corus – the sole exceptions being a handful of resold local TV stations and specialty channel assets, including interests
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WIC's CTV affiliates, CHAN and CHEK, as well as CFCF (even before its acquisition by WIC), had a hostile relationship with the network, due to these stations' desire to take a greater role in Canadian program production for the network. This relationship deteriorated even further in 1997, when rival
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On January 13, 2016, the aforementioned Corus Entertainment, which remained under the control of the Shaw family and retained all of the former WIC radio properties, announced that it would acquire Shaw Media (including much of WIC's former group of local television stations) for $ 2.65 billion. The
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CHCH and CJNT's signals also overlapped with existing Global stations; these two stations were integrated with CHEK into the CH system. CKRD disaffiliated from the CBC in September, 2005, becoming CHCA, the fourth CH station. CHBC's similar disaffiliation was approved by the CRTC on February 28,
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In 2010, Shaw announced a deal to buy the entirety of Canwest's broadcasting division, which would place most of the former WIC assets under the control of the Shaw family, through either Shaw or Corus. The deal was completed that October, with the Canwest properties now being part of
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At the time of its sale to CanWest, WIC owned the following stations. The year WIC first acquired control of each station, and the programming carried by each station immediately prior to the breakup of the company, is also noted.
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The lawsuit eventually stalled, and CanWest and Shaw each ended garnered over 40% of Class B shares. The negotiations between Shaw and CanWest continued until 1999, when the two parties, as well as
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Corus already held a minority interest in Teletoon, which - following subsequent acquisitions - was run as a 50/50 joint venture with Astral. Teletoon became wholly owned by Corus in 2013, due to
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Meanwhile, Corus was to acquire WIC's radio, specialty, and premium television assets. The CRTC approved the sale of the radio stations, MovieMax, SuperChannel, and WIC's
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Unlike many other ownership groups, which during the 1990s tended to brand their stations generically under a network / system brand (sometimes combined with the station
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Although CHBC did not use the CH brand on-air, but rather its call letters, as it had done throughout its existence, until September 7, 2007, when it began using the
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As a result, on September 1, 2001, the Global brand and programming moved from CKVU to CHAN, the CTV association moved from CHAN to CIVT, and CKVU was purchased by
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Corus, consisting of Shaw's former broadcasting division, had been spun off from Shaw earlier in the year, in the process receiving some of Shaw's interest in WIC.
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WIC was already a partial owner of these stations, but acquired the remainder of each station, specifically 50% of CHBC and 41% of each of CHAN and CHEK, from
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While the acquisition was important to fill in some of the gaps of the Global network in western Canada, it eventually proved to be something of a
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had repeatedly denied the company's applications to open new stations. An earlier application by Global in 1997 had been turned down in favour of
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However, CanWest also coveted WIC, primarily for its independent television stations in Alberta, the largest remaining hole in the company's
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Under the agreement, CanWest was to acquire WIC's broadcast television division, various production assets, as well as its interests in
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population was too small to allow one company to own both of that city's anglophone stations. CanWest also retained WIC's interest in
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Although the station in question was nominally independent, the vast majority of its primetime programming was supplied by Canwest.
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Some of the assets listed above are majority-owned, wholly-owned, by Corus Entertainment, or are under license. Refer to full
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in 2009 under the weight of debt from various acquisitions including WIC, but more critically the larger purchases of the
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At the time of its sale to CanWest, Western International Communications owned 12 radio stations. These were acquired by
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system. However, the WIC stations there were already purchasing broadcast rights to some of Global's programming.
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rights, but would be converted to voting shares should a majority of Class A shares change hands, a so-called
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WIC was primarily an ownership group, not a television network. Some WIC stations were network affiliates of
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services to Corus, but required WIC's shares of The Family Channel and Teletoon be sold to a new buyer.
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in the late 1950s to hold his various broadcasting assets in British Columbia, including radio station
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CanWest's acquisition of WIC's television stations finally brought the Global network's service to
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assumed WIC's interest in Cancom, while a separate company owned by the same Shaw family,
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Over time, WIC would acquire various broadcasting assets from other companies, including
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In 1997, wanting to exit the broadcasting business, the Griffiths agreed to sell WIC to
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Global did not have a true national newscast before it acquired WIC, although it aired
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was largely unaffected by the breakup of WIC. The breakup did, however, result in the
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brand the following year. CHEK also changed its association, from CTV to Global's new
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in 1997, when the station added several rebroadcast transmitters throughout Ontario.
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Many of the assets listed above are only partially owned by Shaw. Refer to full
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became the sole corporate owner of CTV, and opened its own independent station,
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The voting shares of both Shaw and Corus are controlled by the Shaw family.
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sale, which was intended to help fund Shaw Communications' purchase of
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brand for all programs outside of local news and regional programming.
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2005, and disaffiliated on February 27, 2006, to join the CH system.
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on stations carrying that program, and premiered its successor,
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There was already a Global 2607:Defunct radio broadcasting companies of Canada 1002:Independent station owned by CHEK Media Group 1711: 1480: 409:. Its final major acquisition was Montreal's 270:WIC Western International Communications Ltd. 140:WIC Western International Communications Ltd. 8: 999:WIC (different programs from those on CHAN) 611:. On acquiring WIC, Global briefly replaced 139: 2622:Mass media companies disestablished in 2000 2163: 2101: 1850: 1739: 1718: 1704: 1696: 1487: 1473: 1465: 1286: 1284: 1282: 1272: 1270: 1268: 537:single-market network association shakeups 138: 127:Learn how and when to remove this message 2612:Mass media companies established in 1982 2602:Defunct broadcasting companies of Canada 730: 366:affiliate, and in 1963 added Victoria's 292:distribution via a majority interest in 2632:Former Corus Entertainment subsidiaries 1311: 1203: 1673:Joint venture with partners including 1404:, Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1999, 1040:. 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