Groupe TVA

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Groupe TVA Inc.
Public
Traded as TSX: TVA.B
Industry Diversified media and broadcasting
Founded 1960
Headquarters Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Key people
 Pierre Karl Péladeau, CEO
Pierre Francoeur, President;
Products Broadcasting
Magazines
Films
Services Broadcasting
Film production
Publishing
Audiovisual production
Parent Quebecor Media (99.97% voting interest)
Rogers Communications (0.03% voting interest)
Subsidiaries TVA Films
TVA Productions
TVA Publishing
Website groupetva.ca

Groupe TVA Inc. is a Canadian communications company with operations in broadcasting, publishing and production. It was founded as Télé-Métropole Corporation in 1960, and owned CFTM-TV, Montreal's first privately-owned francophone station. It changed its legal name to Groupe TVA inc. on February 17, 1998.[1][2]Quebecor Media holds voting control of the company through near-complete control of Groupe TVA's Class A shares; only the non-voting Class B shares are currently publicly traded.

Groupe TVA owns and operates the TVA network, the largest private French language television network in Canada and the most watched television network in Quebec. It also operates seven specialty channels, available via subscription television across Canada. TVA and its specialty channels have a 69% share of revenue in the French speaking market. The total value of the private Francophone sector is $491 million of which $349 million goes to TVA. [3]

Revenue

Channel Name Revenue (2013)
TVA Channel $79 million
ILLICO SUR DEMANDE 57.221 m
Total Specialty Channels $112.636 million
addikTV 10.594 m
Argent 2.621 m
Évasion 12.215 m
Canal Indigo 8.192 m
Le Canal Nouvelles 32.248 m
Casa 8.094 m
Moi&cie 3.526 m
Prise 2 7.417 m
TVA Sports 15.020 m
Yoopa 4.77 m
Sun News Network 7.939 m
Groupe TVA Total 249 m

Conventional television

Specialty television

As of 2015, all of Groupe TVA's specialty television assets are French-language as a result of the shutdown of the English-language Sun News Network.

Current

Former

  • Argent - business and financial news (channel ceased operations April 30, 2016)
  • The Cave - men lifestyle (51% as managing partner and channel sold to Shaw Media on April 25, 2012)
  • Sun News Network - news and opinion (51% as managing partner and channel ceased operations February 13, 2015)
  • Télé Achats - infomercials (channel ceased operations August 1, 2012)

Other assets

See also

References

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External links

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