Canwest - Operations

Operations

See also: List of assets owned by Canwest

As of April 2009 (prior to seeking creditor protection), Canwest owned, in whole or part, a variety of Canadian media assets, including:

  • Global Television Network, a primary Canadian television network which reaches over 94% of the English-speaking population of Canada;
  • E! Entertainment Television, a now-defunct secondary Canadian television system consisted of five smaller-market stations; however, through repeaters and cable television it reaches the majority of major Canadian markets. The "E!" name was licensed by the American channel of the same name, which also supplies the majority of its programming outside of local news and regional programming and primetime shows from the American broadcast networks;
  • specialty services including Showcase, Slice, HGTV Canada, TVtropolis and various digital services;
  • the former Southam newspaper chain, which included the number-two national newspaper National Post, the broadsheet daily newspapers in most major markets, several other smaller newspapers, and the Canwest News Service newswire. Canwest was Canada's largest newspaper publisher;
  • production, distribution, and Internet assets associated with all the Canwest properties

The company had previously sold off some of the smaller newspapers it had acquired in the Southam purchase. Canwest also previously owned broadcasting operations in Australia (as majority shareholder of Network Ten), New Zealand (through CanWest MediaWorks New Zealand), and the Republic of Ireland (as a minority shareholder of TV3).

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