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This profile deals with the Cogeco television and telecommunications
group of Canada.
It covers -
introduction
Canadian
cable and broadcast group Cogeco is the smallest of the
'Big 5' commercial services.
the group
Cogeco is owned by
the Louis Audet family and competitor Rogers
Communications (with a 17% stake). Its 39% owned Cogeco
Cable delivers cable television services to around 1.4m
households in Quebec and Ontario. The unit is also moving
into provision of internet and telecommunication services.
Cogeco Radio-Television (CRTI) operates six Francophone
television stations and two radio stations, supported
by the Quebec-based production house Les Productions Carrefour.
In 2001, as part of regulatory approval for Quebecor's
acquisition of the Videotron cable network, Cogeco and
partner Bell Globemedia bought the
86% of television network TQS (Télévision
Quatre-Saisons) that was owned by Quebecor. TQS had been
founded by Jean Pouliot in 1986. The partners sought court
protection for the network in December 2007.
In 2006 Cogeco announced that it was buying Portugal's
Cabovisao-Televisao por Cabo from that group's insolvent
Canadian parent, Cable Satisfaction International, for
C$656 million.
studies
There are no major English-language studies of the Audet
family or Cogeco. It is covered in Gordon Pitts' Kings
of Convergence (Toronto: Doubleday 2002) and Ken
Easton's Building an Industry: History of Cable Television
in Canada (Lawrencetown Beach: Pottersfield Press
2000).
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