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List of assets owned by Bell Media

List of assets owned by Bell Media

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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 Nation Network, 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. is the wholly-owned television broadcasting division of Bell Media. Bell Media owns 30 local television stations led by CTV Television Network; 29 specialty channels, including TSN and RDS; and four pay TV services, including Crave (formerly The Movie Network) and Super Écran.[1]

CTV Inc. owns and operates the following stations, specialty channels, and pay-per-view & video-on-demand services.

Conventional television

Stations are arranged alphabetically by city of licence. Dates when the respective station was purchased by Bell Media or a corporate antecedent (CHUM, Baton, CTVglobemedia) are recognized; this does not include instances of when a station was sold from one antecedent to another, ex., CHRO-TV being sold from Baton to CHUM in 1997.

  • A lavender blue background indicates the flagship station of the respective network or television system.
  • A blue background indicates a television station transmitting in analogue.
  • (**) – Indicates station was built and signed on by Bell Media or a corporate antecedent (CHUM, Baton, CTVglobemedia).

CTV

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CTV 2

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Noovo

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Specialty channels

CTV

CTV 2

CTV Entertainment

CTV News

CTV Specialty

CTV Specialty Television Inc. is jointly owned by Bell Media and ESPN Inc., with 70% and 30% 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.

Premium and PPV

Other English-language

Other French-language

Other assets

  • Dome Productions (owned by Bell Media and Rogers Media Inc.) — a multi-platform production company that operates a fleet of 18 television production mobiles, one production/uplink truck, and three KU uplink tractors. For over 30 years, Dome’s head office was located in the Rogers Centre in Toronto. The company has since moved to 130 Merton Street in 2023.[1][3]
  • Exploration Production Inc. and Exploration Distribution Inc. (56.06% owned by Bell Media) — were Discovery Channel Canada's in-house production and distribution companies. In February 2021, EPI and EDI were folded into Bell Media Studios.[4]
  • Movie Entertainment — was Crave's monthly in-house magazine before its publication ended in April 2021.

Bell Media Radio

Bell Media Radio (branded as iHeartRadio Canada) is the wholly-owned radio broadcasting division of Bell Media. Through iHeartRadio Canada, Bell Media also owns iHeartRadio Canada Sales and operates a localized version of the iHeartRadio online radio platform owned by iHeartMedia.[5]

Bell Media owns the following radio network brands:[2]

Current stations

  • An orange background indicates a French language format.
  • (**) – Indicates station was built and signed on by Bell Media or a corporate antecedent (CHUM, Baton, CTVglobemedia).
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Former stations

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  1. Acquired from Astral Media.[6][7]
  1. Also owned by CHUM Radio from 1985 to 2002.
  2. Also owned by Baton from 1970 to 1985.
  3. Was one of six stations simultaneously shut down by Bell Media on June 14, 2023.[9]

Other assets

Environics Analytics

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Environics Analytics is a Canadian marketing and analytical services company, established in 2003, by founder and current President Jan Kestle, owned by Bell Media.[13] The company is based in Toronto, Ontario. Environics Analytics Group Ltd. is owned by Bell Media, separate from Environics Research Group.

All staff report to Nauby Jacob, SVP of Products and Services at Bell Media.[14]

Environics Analytics experts, studies and data are often cited in Canadian news media.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

Founder Jan Kestle is one of Canada's leading experts on the use of privacy-friendly data.[24][25]

Environics Analytics was one of a group of companies to object to the removal of the Canada 2011 Census long form.[26][27]

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

See also


References

  1. "Bell Media Partnerships". Bell Media. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  2. "The Lede". Bell Media. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  3. "Dome Productions". Bell Media. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  4. "CRTC approves Bell/Astral deal with conditions". Toronto Star. June 27, 2013. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
  5. "CRTC approves Bell-Astral merger". CBC News. Retrieved July 5, 2013.
  6. 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
  7. Hudes, Sammy (June 14, 2023). "Bell cutting 1,300 positions, closing or selling 9 radio stations". Financial Post. The Canadian Press. Retrieved June 14, 2023.
  8. "Astral". Bell Media. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  9. "Pinewood". Bell Media. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
  10. "Premier Data and Analytics Services Company". Environics Analytics. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  11. "Environics Analytics Acquired by Bell Media". the-message.ca. December 3, 2020. Retrieved December 10, 2020.
  12. loyd, Jeromey (December 3, 2020). "Bell Canada acquires Environics Analytics". Media of Canada. Retrieved January 9, 2022.
  13. Posted (July 19, 2018). "The Big Smoke: Survey says Torontonians smoke 141.7M joints a year". Toronto.citynews.ca. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  14. Hall, Joseph (July 19, 2018). "What's that smell? In wealthy neighbourhoods it's most likely weed". The Hamilton Spectator via www.thespec.com.
  15. "Canada had 1 city where people were worth over $1M last year. There are 4 now". Globalnews.ca. September 5, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  16. "Election analysis: Who votes and who doesn't are key battlegrounds | CTV News". Ctvnews.ca. May 14, 2018. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  17. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 27, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 14, 2018. Retrieved August 20, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  19. "Why Marketers Should Support the 2016 Canadian Census". The-cma.org. May 2, 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  20. Wherry, Aaron (May 8, 2013). "Revisiting the census debate". Macleans.ca. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  21. "Bell Media ends BravoFACT, MuchFACT". Retrieved February 14, 2018.

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