Quebecor Media Inc.

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Quebecor Media Inc. is a subsidiary of Quebecor Inc. It owns and operates the following companies:

Vidéotron (largest cable TV and internet service provider in Quebec)

Sun Media corporation (newspapers)
- The Toronto Sun
- The Ottawa Sun
- The Winnipeg Sun
- The Calgary Sun
- The Edmonton Sun
- The London Free Press
- Le Journal de Montréal
- Le Journal de Québec
- Le Journal de Trois-Rivières
- The Recorder and Times - Brockville, Ontario
- The Daily Herald Tribune - Grande Prairie, Alberta
- The Stratford Beacon Herald - Ontario
- The St. Thomas Times-Journal - Ontario
- Fort McMurray Today - Alberta
- The Daily Miner and News - Kenora, Ontario
- The Daily Graphic - Portage La Prairie, Manitoba
- The Simcoe Reformer - Ontario
- The Woodstock Sentinel Review - Ontario
- 24 Hours - Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver / 24 Heures - Montreal and Gatineau
  - The Vancouver edition is co-published with the Jim Pattison Group
- CKXT-TV Toronto (co-owned with TVA, a Quebecor Media subsidiary)

Groupe TVA (broadcasting properties)
- CFTM-TV Montreal
- CFCM-TV Quebec City
- CFER-TV Rimouski
- CHLT-TV Sherbrooke
- CHEM-TV Trois Riviers
- CJPM-TV Chicoutimi
- CKXT-TV Toronto (co-owned with Sun Media, a Quebecor Media subsidiary)
- Le Canal Nouvelles
- ARGENT
- Canal Évasion (co-owned with Serdy Direct)
- Canal Indigo Pay-Per-View (20% ownership, various other owners)
- mentv (co-owned with CanWest Global)
- Mystery (co-owned with CanWest Global)
- Mystère
- Prise 2
- Shopping TVA
- TVA Group Subsidiaries
  - TVA Films
  - TVA Publishing
  - JPL Productions

Canoe.ca (Canadian internet portal)
Archambault stores (largest music store chain in Eastern Canada)
Editions Quebecor Media-largest group of publishing houses in Quebec
Vidéotron Télécom (telecommunications)
Select-Canada's largest independent CD and video distributer
Nurun Inc. (interactive agency)
Le SuperClub Vidéotron -the largest chain of video stores in Québec
- Jumbo Video (small video chain operated by Le SuperClub Vidéotron)

Quebecor Media's wide range of media properties enables it to execute "convergence" strategies that are sometimes criticized. When the TVA television network was running the program Star Académie (sort of a French-language "American Idol"-type program), it was heavily cross-promoted: TVA would mention it in the "entertainment" segment of news broadcasts, the newspaper Le Journal de Montréal would run several pages on it, magazines would run articles on it, and so forth. The show was even hosted and produced by company CEO Pierre-Karl Péladeau's girlfriend, TV personality Julie Snyder. The strategy worked: the show's first season was a huge ratings success and a cultural phenomenon, and continues in future seasons.