| Type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Media (Television, Radio, Digital Media) |
| Predecessor | CTVglobemedia |
| Founded | 2011 (through acquisition of CTVglobemedia) |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Area served | Canada |
| Key people | Kevin Crull, president |
| Owner(s) | BCE Inc. |
| Divisions | CTV Inc., Bell Media Radio |
| Website | http://www.bellmedia.ca/ |
Bell Media is the mass media subsidiary of BCE (also known as Bell Canada Enterprises, the parent company of Bell Canada). Its operations include television broadcasting and production (including the CTV and CTV Two television networks), radio broadcasting (through Bell Media Radio), Digital Media, and Internet properties.
Bell Media is the successor-in-interest to Baton Broadcasting (later CTV Inc.), one of Canada's first private-sector television broadcasters. The company in its current form was originally established as Bell Globemedia by BCE and the Thomson family in 2001 combining CTV Inc., which Bell had acquired the previous year, and the operations of the Thomsons' The Globe and Mail. Bell sold the majority of its interest in 2006 (at which point the company was renamed CTVglobemedia), but re-acquired the entire company, excluding the Globe, in 2011.
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Bell Media's largest division is Bell Media Television, which owns the following broadcast television assets:
Bell Media Television also owns 30 cable television specialty channels, frequently in partnership with U.S. companies which operate similar channels, and primarily concentrated in the following genres:
| Genre | Key channels | Foreign partner |
|---|---|---|
| Sports | The Sports Network, Réseau des sports, TSN2, RDS2 others | ESPN (part-owner) |
| Music / youth (Much MTV Group) | MuchMusic, MuchMore, MTV, MTV2, others | MTV Networks (licensor – certain channels only) |
| Factual programming | Discovery Channel and various spinoff channels | Discovery Communications (part-owner or licensor) |
| News (CTV News) | Business News Network, CP24, CTV News Channel | n/a1 |
| Comedy | The Comedy Network and Comedy Gold | Comedy Central (program supply) |
| Entertainment | Bravo! and E! | NBCUniversal (licensor) |
| Other | FashionTelevisionChannel and Space | n/a |
1No foreign co-owners or brand partners are involved with these channels. However (like most news organizations) CTV does rely on foreign news sources, such as ABC News and CNN, for some international coverage.
Through its Bell Media Radio division, the company is also Canada's fifth-largest private-sector radio broadcaster, after Astral Media, Newcap Broadcasting, Rogers Media and Corus Entertainment.
In addition, Bell Media owns television/radio production studios and websites associated with all of the above properties, as well as the Sympatico.ca Internet portal previously operated through Bell Canada.
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