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TVA Group

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Traded as
  
TSX: TVA.B

Founded
  
1960

Headquarters
  
Montreal, Canada

Key person
  
Pierre Karl Péladeau

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Type
  
Publicly traded subsidiary

Industry
  
Diversified media and broadcasting

Key people
  
Pierre Karl Péladeau, CEO Pierre Francoeur, President;

Products
  
Broadcasting Magazines Films

Services
  
Broadcasting Film production Publishing

Stock price
  
TVA.B (TSE) CA$ 3.65 -0.05 (-1.35%)4 Apr, 4:00 PM GMT-4 - Disclaimer

Parent organizations
  
Quebecor Media Book Group Inc, Rogers Communications

Subsidiaries
  
Sun News Network, TVA Films, TVA Publishing, Inc.

TVA Group, Inc. (French: Groupe TVA Inc.) is a Canadian communications company with operations in broadcasting, publishing and production. Quebecor Media holds voting control of the company through near-complete control of TVA Group's Class A shares; only the non-voting Class B shares are currently publicly traded.

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Broadcasting

Groupe TVA owns and operates the TVA network, the largest private French language television network in Canada. It also operates seven specialty channels, available via cable and satellite across Canada.

Revenue

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 $361 million of which $249 million goes to TVA.

Conventional television

  • TVA
  • CFTM-DT Montreal
  • CFCM-DT Quebec City
  • CFER-TV Rimouski
  • CHLT-DT Sherbrooke
  • CHEM-DT Trois-Rivières
  • CJPM-DT Saguenay
  • CKXT-DT Toronto (defunct)
  • Specialty television

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

    Current

  • addikTV - film and television series
  • Évasion - 8.31% and minority partner
  • Canal Indigo - PPV movie service
  • Le Canal Nouvelles - 24 hour news
  • CASA - lifestyle and real estate
  • MOI&cie - lifestyle and entertainment
  • Prise 2 - retro film and television series
  • TVA Sports - sports
  • Yoopa - children's (pre-school) programs
  • 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)
  • Other assets

  • TVA Films (Film production and distributor)
  • TVA Productions (Television production)
  • TVA Publishing (French language magazine publisher, distributes over 70 titles)
  • Télé Inter-Rives (Independent broadcaster, owns 45% stake)
  • References

    TVA Group Wikipedia


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