Cablecasting Limited

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Cablecasting Limited (CL Systems Limited) was Canada's fifth largest cable television company^[1] serving cities in western Canada and some small towns in Ontario. The two major shareholders of the company were David R. Graham, who owned 99.1%, and Noel R. Bambrough who owned 0.1%. The rest of the shares were widely held through the TSE.

They owned cable facilities in the following markets:

One of Cablecasting's cable companies

Greater Winnipeg Cablevision
Calgary Cable TV/FM (served Calgary North)^[2]
Airdrie, Alberta
Cochrane, Alberta
Tillsonburg, Ontario
Thames Cablevision Inc. of Strathroy, Ontario
Allview Cable Service of St. Thomas, Ontario
Graham Cable TV/FM serving City of York and parts of Toronto
Lakeshore Community Television Limited serving Terrace Bay, White River, Red Rock, Nipigon, Marathon, Manitouwadge and Wawa, Ontario.

1 History
2 CRTC License-related
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

In May, 1980, a U.S. subsidiary of Cable America Inc., Cablecasting Ltd. bought up 80% of a cable company in the state of Dekalb Cablevision Inc., serving 16,000 households in De Kalb, Georgia.^[3]

Before SHAW Communications bought up these assets for $307,500,000 in 1992^[4], Cablecasting Limited had 320,000 subscribers in the systems listed above. It was the fifth largest cable company in Canada .

[edit] CRTC License-related

CRTC Decision 1992-829 - Sale of Cablecasting Limited assets to SHAW Cable

[edit] References

^ Partridge, John. "Cablecasting putting systems on the market", Globe and Mail, November 23, 1989, p. B1.
^ Nelson, Barry. "Two cable systems serve Calgary", Calgary Herald, November 1, 1992, p. F1.
^ "COMPANIES IN THE NEWS CABLECASTING", Globe and Mail, May 17, 1980, p. B2.
^ "Western cable-TV firm purchases CL Systems", Toronto Star, March 14, 1992, p. C3.