Other Services
In 2004, TVA's parent TVA Group and fellow Quebecor subsidiary Sun Media jointly acquired CKXT-TV in Toronto, an independent station once known as Toronto One under its previous owner, Craig Media, in 2004. The company's first English-language television station, it continued to be run as an independent station, not as a TVA affiliate, although it was rebranded "Sun TV", after Sun Media's local newspaper, the Toronto Sun. In early 2005, TVA confirmed to The Globe and Mail that it would continue to look for other expansion opportunities in English Canada, although as of 2008 no further purchase announcements have been made by the company. On April 18, 2011, CKXT-TV began to simulcast the programming of a new news channel, Sun News Network, considered to be an English version of LCN. CKXT would cease operations on November 1, 2011, with the Sun News Network continuing only on cable and satellite.
TVA Group also operates a number of cable specialty channels, including addikTV (formerly Mystère), ARGENT, Casa (formerly Les idées de ma maison télé), LCN, Mlle, Prise 2, Shopping TVA and Yoopa. Groupe TVA is also a minority owner of Évasion, with Serdy Direct as majority owner. TVA Group was also a majority owner of The Cave (now H2), which it co-owned with Shaw Media; it also equally owned Mystery TV with Shaw Media, with Shaw Media being managing partner. TVA would sell their share in both channels to Shaw in November 2011.
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