Standard Broadcasting

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Standard Broadcasting Corporation is a Canadian radio broadcasting company. It is owned by J. Allan Slaight, and is the largest privately owned multimedia company in Canada. Standard Radio announced in June 2006 that it was cancelling its IPO "due to recent market conditions".

On February 23, 2007, Astral Media announced that it has signed a letter of intent and has entered into exclusive negotiations regarding the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of radio broadcaster, Standard Radio Inc.^[1]

Through its Standard Radio subsidiary, the company operates dozens of radio stations and two television stations. It also owns a significant minority interest in the radio station operators Milestone Radio and Haliburton Broadcasting Group in Canada, and Martz Communications Group in the US. The company also operates divisions in e-commerce, videotape and DVD distribution, retail marketing and audio and video post-production. As well, the Internet radio portal Iceberg Radio is owned and operated by Standard.

Standard is also partnered with Sirius Satellite Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in launching Sirius satellite radio service in Canada. (See Sirius Canada.)

In 1971, the company received a special Juno Award for "Broadcaster of the Year".