List of assets owned by CanWest Global Communications
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The following is a list of assets owned by CanWest Global Communications.
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[edit] Canadian assets
[edit] Newspapers
- National Post
- Montreal Gazette
- Ottawa Citizen
- Windsor Star
- Regina Leader-Post
- Saskatoon StarPhoenix
- Calgary Herald
- Edmonton Journal
- Vancouver Sun
- Vancouver Province
- Vancouver Courier
- Victoria Times-Colonist
- Dose (Several major cities)
- Pacific Press Newspaper Group Inc. - Vancouver Sun and The Province
[edit] Radio
- CKBT 91.5 FM - Kitchener, Ontario
- CJZZ 99.1 FM - Winnipeg, Manitoba
[edit] Television
- Cable specialty channel
- TVtropolis (co-owned with Rogers Communications)
- Digital television specialty channels
- mentv (co-owned with Quebecor Media)
- Mystery (co-owned with Quebecor Media)
- DejaView
- Lonestar
- Fox Sports World Canada
- X-Treme Sports
- CoolTV
[edit] CanWest Interactive
- newspaper portals
- canada.com news network
- Global TV websites
- Canada.com
- working.com
[edit] U.S. assets
[edit] Australian & New Zealand assets
[edit] Television
- TV3
- C4
- Network Ten Canwest has a 57.5% economic interest in Network Ten (more commonly known as Channel Ten or simply Ten) however its voting share is 14.9% this happened when Ten was floated on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1998.
CanWest Global purchased TV3 from the receivers of the failed startup station and held it through a variety of subsidiaries until transferring ownership of the operation and its other major media assets including the station C4 in July 2004 to Canwest MediaWorks NZ where it retained a 70% stake.
[edit] Radio
CanWest built its ownsership of Radio Assets in New Zealand through its purchase of Radioworks and the further expansion of this operation through acquisition of other local radio stations and networks and organic growth. In July 2004 these were transferred into the ownership of Canwest MediaWorks NZ along with its television assets in New Zealand.
[edit] Advertising
- Eye Corp
Wholly owned by Network Ten
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] Radio
- Original 106 - Solent region, Southern England
- Original 106 - Bristol
- Original 106 - Aberdeen
CanWest MediaWorks UK were a minority stakeholder in national commercial radio station Talk Radio UK in the early 1990s
[edit] Television
CanWest UK bidded for the Channel Five national commercial television license in the early 1990s, which was subsequently awarded to Channel 5 Broadcasting.
