Tag: Ownership
Torstar to increase ownership in Multimedia Nova
Torstar Corporation agreed on Friday, June 27, to purchase 590,631 Class A voting shares in Toronto's Multimedia Nova for $236,253. Multimedia Nova is the...
CRTC announces new media ownership rules
New media ownership rules announced on January 15 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will restrict future cross-media acquisitions in order to...
Transcontinental Media acquires Corriere Italiano
Transcontinental Media announced in December that it had acquired two Quebec weekly newspapers, including Montreal's Italian-language weekly newspaper Corriere Italiano and LÔÇÖAutre Voix, which...
Springhill-Parrsboro Record sold to Transcontinental
Transcontinental Media announced on Friday that they have acquired the Springhill-Parrsboro Record from Advocate Media Inc.
The Nova Scotia newspaper was established in 1929 and...
CanWest MediaWorks acquires five papers
CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc. announced on November 19, 2007, that they have acquired five publications from Windsor-Essex County in Ontario.
The five publications, which are...
Wallaceburg News ceases publication
Wallaceburg, Ontario's The Courier Press, which is operated by Sun Media Corporation, revealed on October 10, 2007, that it is now the only newspaper...
Sifton named president, CEO of Sun Media
In a press release issued September 19, Quebecor Media Inc. president and chief operating officer Pierre Francoeur named Michael Sifton as the new president...
Carstairs Courier joins Mountain View Publishing
Starting on September 1, Alberta's Carstairs Courier will be joining Mountain View Publishing, which includes the Didsbury Review, Innisfail Province, Mountain View Gazette, Olds Albertan...
Black Press launches two free weeklies in Seattle suburbs
Black Press, the newspaper corporation based out of British Columbia, announced last week that they will launch two new weeklies in Washington State in...
Transcontinental picks up Seaway News
Transcontinental Media has announced the purchase of Cornwall, Ontario's Seaway News. Serving eastern Ontario since 1985 and reaching 36,000 homes in the region, the...