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overview
holdings
landmarks
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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. It covers -
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline on this site.
beginnings
1970
IH Asper becomes leader of Manitoba Liberal Party
1974 buys 45% of troubled Global Ontario network, gains
regulatory approval to move Pembina (North Dakota) tv
station to Winnipeg
1975 becomes QC
1975 steps down from Liberal leadership, establishes CanWest
Capital Corporation
1975 CKND-TV becomes Winnipeg's third over-the-air television
service
1986 gains licenses for new tv stations in Regina and
Saskatoon
1987 Asper's SaskWest Television launches CFRE-TV Regina
and CFSK-TV Saskatoon
1988 buys tv stations in Vancouver and Halifax/Saint John
1988 Asper and associated companies buy out partners in
the Ontario Global system
1988 open CIHF-TV, Halifax's second commercial tv station
1989 CanWest moves to 100% of Global, becomes CanWestGlobal
1991 lists on Toronto Stock Exchange
expands outside Canada
1991 takes stake in TV3 New Zealand
1992 buys a 57.5% stake in Australian TEN
commercial tv network
1995 CanWest bid for Britain's Channel 5 television network
rejected
1996 listing on New York Stock Exchange
1997 buys New Zealand's More FM commercial radio network
1997 increases stake in New Zealand's TV3 to 100%
1997 launches TV4, New Zealand's second commercial tv
network
1997 launch of Prime TV cable channel in Canada
1997 CanWest Global and TVA Régional Inc. (French-language
commercial tv network in Quebec) form partnership (51-49%)
to buy CKMI-TV in Quebec City, with retransmission in
Sherbrooke and Montreal
1998 investment in TV3 Ireland
1998 buys 18.2% holding in Ulster Television from Scottish
Media Group for £23.9m
1998 increases Ulster stake to 29.9%
1998 buys Fireworks Entertainment film and television
production house
1999 establishes Fireworks International as global film
distribution arm
1999 establishes Fireworks Television U.S.A as video production
arm
1999 takes 20% stake in Internet Broadcasting System and
27% stake in LifeServ Corporation (internet content providers)
2000 takes 32% stake in Medbroadcast, Canadian internet
health site
2000 takes controlling interest in Winnipeg's All Sport
Ventures (allCanadiansport.ca portal)
2000 buys 70% of RadioWorks NZ, second largest radio group
2000 announces that Granada
Media will take 45% stake in TV3 Ireland
2000 TEN announces acquisition of
60% interest in online and outdoor advertiser Eye Corp
2000 gains 3 Alberta tv stations with purchase of assets
of Western International Communications (WIC)
2000 buys Canadian tv stations in Hamilton, Victoria and
Montreal and CBC affiliates CHBC Kelowna and CKRD Red
Deer
2000 buys Edmonton-based CanWest Studios, Apple Box Productions
and StudioPost Film Labs
expansion into newspapers
2000 buys principal metropolitan operations of Hollinger
newspaper chain in Canada, along with Hollinger's Canadian
internet properties, its magazine group, most of the community
publishing operations and a 50% interest in the National
Post
2001 buys remaining 50% of National Post
2001 sells stake in ROBTv to comply with regulatory approval
of Hollinger deal
2001 increases RadioWorks stake to 100%
2001 Hollinger sells stake in CanWest for C$271m cash
2002 CanWest announces sale of 12 newspapers and printing
operations to GTC Transcontinental
Group for C$255m
2002 TEN acquires remaining 40% of Eye
2003 CanWest sells community newspaper operations in Southern
Ontario to Osprey Media Group for C$193m
2003 launches The Beat FM, its first radio station in
Canada
2003 death of IH Asper
rationalisation
2004 sells stake in Ulster Television for £59m
2004 floats 30% of New Zealand broadcasting arm (CanWest
Media Works) for NZ$300m
2004 announces plan to buy 50% of Jerusalem Post
(JPost Group) from Mirkaei Tikshoret group
2005 Jerusalem Post deal derailed
2005 CanWest gains licence for The Original 106, Solent
UK radio station
2005 forms joint venture with Metro
and
Torstar to launch Metro
Ottawa and Vancouver
2006 agrees to sell 45% cent stake in Irish terrestrial
broadcaster TV3 to private equity group Doughty Hanson
2003 sells radio stations The Beat FM (Kitchener) and
Cool FM (Winnipeg) to Corus for
C$15m
2007 makes joint C$2.3bn bid with Goldman Sachs for Alliance
Atlantis television and production group
2007 increases stake in The New Republic to 75%
by buying interests of Roger Hertog and Michael Steinhardt
2007 buys Martin Perutz' stake in New Republic
2007 sells remaining 70% of CanWest Media Works to Ironbridge
Capital for NZ$386m
2007
Metro and Torstar buy CanWest stake in Metro
Ottawa and Vancouver
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