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.
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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