CORUS ENTERTAINMENT


'Corus Entertainment Inc.' is a privately held Canadian media and entertainment company.
Corus is a market leader in specialty television and radio with additional assets in pay television, advertising and digital audio services, television broadcasting, children's book publishing and children's animation. The company’s multimedia entertainment brands include YTV, Treehouse, W Network, Movie Central, SCREAM, Nelvana, Kids Can Press and radio stations including CKNW, CKOI and Q107. Corus creates engaging branded entertainment experiences for its audiences across multiple platforms.
Corus Entertainment's voting majority is held by the company's founder JR Shaw and his family, which also owns Shaw Communications, from which Corus was spun off in 1999.

Contents
Board of Directors
Key Executives
Assets
Television
Conventional television stations
Specialty television services
Premium television services
Radio stations
Production
Publishing
Advertising
Other
Websites
External links

Board of Directors


Current members of the board of directors of Corus Entertainment are: Pierre Béland, John Cassaday, Dennis Erker, Carolyn Hursh, Wendy Leaney, Ronald Rogers, Cathy Roozen, Terrance Royer, Julie Shaw, and Heather Shaw.
Key Executives


★ John Cassaday, President and CEO

★ Heather Shaw, Executive Chair

Assets


Television

Conventional television stations


Kingston, Ontario - CKWS-TV

Peterborough, Ontario - CHEX-TV

Oshawa, Ontario/Durham Regional Municipality, Ontario - CHEX-TV-2
Specialty television services


Treehouse TV

W Network

YTV

CMT Canada (90%)

Discovery Kids (Canada) (80%)

SCREAM (51%)

Telelatino (50.5%)

TELETOON (50%)

TÉLÉTOON (50%)

TELETOON Retro (50%)

Food Network Canada (22.58%)
In addition, Corus also has an ownership interest in Qubo, a United States-based children's programming block and digital television network.
Premium television services


Movie Central

Encore Avenue
Radio stations


Barrie - CHAY, CIQB

Burlington - CJXY

Calgary - CFGQ, CHQR, CKRY

Cambridge - CJDV

Collingwood - CKCB

Cornwall - CFLG, CJSS, CJUL

Edmonton - CHED, CHQT, CKNG, CISN

Gatineau - CJRC

Guelph - CIMJ, CJOY

Hamilton - CHML, CING

Kingston - CFFX, CFMK

Kitchener - CKBT

London - CFPL, CFPL-FM

Montmagny - CFEL

Montreal - CFQR, CHMP, CINF, CINW, CKAC, CKOI

Peterborough - CKRU, CKWF

Quebec City - CFOM, CHRC

Saguenay - CKRS

Saint-Jérôme - CIME

Sherbrooke - CHLT

St. Thomas - CFHK

Toronto - CFMJ, CFNY, CILQ

Trois-Rivières - CHLN

Vancouver - CFMI, CFOX, CHMJ, CKNW

Winnipeg - CJKR, CJOB, CJZZ

Woodstock - CKDK
Production


Nelvana; a production and distribution company of children's animation programs
Publishing


★ Kids Can Press; a children's book publishing company
Advertising


★ Corus Custom Networks; a television advertising service
Other


Max Trax; a digital television music radio service
Websites


★ http://www.corusent.com

★ http://www.YTV.com

★ http://www.TreehouseTV.com

★ http://www.TreehouseDirect.com (video download service)

★ http://www.Wnetwork.com

★ http://www.CMT.ca

★ http://www.DiscoveryKids.ca

External links



Corus Entertainment website

CRTC chart of Corus Entertainment's Specialty Channel assets (PDF)

CRTC chart of Corus Entertainment's Radio & TV assets (PDF)

list of Corus Entertainment's TV stations and transmitters (screenshot from DXinfocentre.com)

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