Groupe TVA

Groupe TVA inc.
Type	Publicly traded subsidiary
Traded as	TSX: TVA.B
Industry	Diversified media and broadcasting
Founded	1960
Headquarters	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Key people	Pierre Karl Péladeau, CEO ; , President;
Products	Broadcasting ; Magazines ; Films
Services	Broadcasting ; Film production ; Publishing ; Audiovisual production
Parent	Quebecor Media (99.97% voting interest) ; Rogers Communications (0.03% voting interest)
Subsidiaries	TVA Films ; ;
Website	groupetva.ca

Groupe TVA inc. is a Canadian communications company with operations in broadcasting, publishing and production. It was founded as Télé-Métropole Corporation in 1960 and changed its legal name to Groupe TVA inc. on February 17, 1998.^[1]^[2] Quebecor Media holds voting control of the company through near-complete control of Groupe TVA's Class A shares; only the non-voting Class B shares are currently publicly traded.

Groupe TVA owns and operates the TVA network, the largest private French language television network in Canada and the most watched television network in Quebec. It also operates seven specialty channels, available via subscription television across Canada. 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 $491 million of which $349 million goes to TVA. ^[3]

Revenue[]

Channel Name	Revenue (2013)
TVA Channel	$79 million
ILLICO SUR DEMANDE	57.221 m
Total Specialty Channels	$112.636 million
addikTV	10.594 m
Argent	2.621 m
Évasion	12.215 m
Canal Indigo	8.192 m
Le Canal Nouvelles	32.248 m
Casa	8.094 m
Moi&cie	3.526 m
Prise 2	7.417 m
TVA Sports	15.020 m
Yoopa	4.77 m
Sun News Network	7.939 m
Groupe TVA Total	249 m

Conventional television[]

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

Specialty television[]

As of 2015, all of Groupe TVA'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 - travel and adventure
Canal Indigo - PPV movie service
Le Canal Nouvelles - 24 hour news
CASA - lifestyle and real estate
MOI ET CIE - lifestyle and entertainment
Prise 2 - retro film and television series
TVA Sports - sports
Yoopa - children's (pre-school) programs
Zeste - food-related entertainment and lifestyle programming

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)
Télé Achats - infomercials (channel ceased operations August 1, 2012)

Other assets[]

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

References[]

^ "Rapport annuel 2008" (PDF). TVA. 2008. p. 3. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
^ "Groupe TVA message". La Presse. Montreal. 28 February 1998. p. F7.
^ http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/policymonitoring/2014/cmr4.htm

External links[]

[1] "Rapport annuel 2008" (PDF). TVA. 2008. p. 3. Retrieved March 3, 2020.

[2] "Groupe TVA message". La Presse. Montreal. 28 February 1998. p. F7.

[3] ttp://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/policymonitoring/2014/cmr4.htm

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