Here is a History of Corus Entertainment from it's start until the present day
Anyone can contribute day by day or month by month or even year by year
now before we start on september 1, 1999, we need to travel back in time to the 50s and 60s
1966-1970 - Captial Cable Television Co. Ltd. was born under Shawcor and they Apply for a Franchise for Cable TV
1970 - They get the Franchise for East Edmonton (West Edmonton was served by another Franchise owned by Ed Polanski called QCTV, Which would later become Videotron and end up getting owned by Shaw)
1972 - Community Channel 10 launches in East Edmonton
1987 - They Abandon the bid for QCTV in which Videotron won that franchise and instead looked towards Broadcasting (TV and Radio as of 1987) when they acquired CKGY (CKGY-FM) and CFCR-FM (CIZZ-FM) in Red Deer from Park Country Broadcasting as well as CHEC in Lethbridge and CKTA in Taber (Moved to Lethbridge and renamed CFEZ)
1988 - They Purchased CISN Holdings which was the Owner of CISN-FM
1990-1991 - Shaw Expanded Outside of both Alberta and Western Canada when they Acquired CHAY-FM in Barrie followed by CKDK-FM in Woodstock, both in Ontario
1992 - They Acquired CKLG-FM (CKGO, now home to CKNW) and CFOX-FM from Moffat Communications, Entering British Columbia for the First Time (CHFM, CITI and CKY were Sold to Rogers, CHAB, CFXX and CHAM were sold to Golden West Broadcasting and CHED and CKNG (Co-Owned with Maclean-Hunter) were sold to WIC-Westcom) and they Buy Cablecasting which gave them Cablesystems in Half of Winnipeg and Calgary
1993 - Shaw adds CHQT to their Broadcasting Quiver and because of the adding of CHQT (Now Home to CHED) buying it from Monarch, CFEZ which was renamed back to CKTA and CHEC were sold in Exchange, Shaw now owned a Station in their Hometown (The East Side of Edmonton as well as the West Side too)
1994 - They Acquire CFNY in Brampton (Sole Selkirk property under Maclean-Hunter) adding them a Station in Toronto and Rogers Swapped Cablesystems with Shaw (in return for Rogers getting some Ontario Systems from Shaw, Shaw would Acquire the Victoria Cablesystem in whole and other half of the Calgary cablesystem from Rogers)
1995 - They Acquire CUC Broadcasting which gave them a 34% share in YTV as well as some Cablesystems
1996 - They Buy CKRY-FM in Calgary and also New Country Network (it was Renamed on Halloween (Dark Night in YTV's Case) 1996 as Country Music Television bringing back a name that was abandoned with the American Version getting replaced with NCN since December 31, 1994/January 1, 1995)
1997 - Shaw Launches a Canadian version of DMX for Digital Cable and they Makes a 20% investment in Telelatino, they owned 26.7 (20% by 2000) of Teletoon (Main Partner is Family Channel which was co-owned by and Bundled with Astral's TMN and WIC's Superchannel), a 14.95 share in The Comedy Network (Main Partner and Current is CTV/Baton) and Treehouse (100% owned by Shaw through YTV) and they begin to Plan a Buyout of WIC
1998 - Shaw got Approval to move their Broadcasting Assets to Mediaco and then to Holdco and they Acquired a 47.85 stake in Headline Sports
1999 - Corus was Split out of Shaw and they Began their first acquisition with CFHK and CFPL AM/FM from Blackburn Radio (CFPL was under the Ownership of CHUM) bringing their Radio count from 11 pre-split to 14 post-split, then they sold their Stake in Headline Sports to Alliance Atlantis and also they Announced that they would buy Power Broadcasting adding 17 Radio Stations (11 in Ontario and 6 Quebec) and 4 TV Stations (3 in Ontario and 1 in Quebec/New Brunswick) to their fold and They alongside Shaw (The Company they split out of) and Canwest would announce that they would buy split up WIC in 2000
Anyone can contribute day by day or month by month or even year by year
now before we start on september 1, 1999, we need to travel back in time to the 50s and 60s
1966-1970 - Captial Cable Television Co. Ltd. was born under Shawcor and they Apply for a Franchise for Cable TV
1970 - They get the Franchise for East Edmonton (West Edmonton was served by another Franchise owned by Ed Polanski called QCTV, Which would later become Videotron and end up getting owned by Shaw)
1972 - Community Channel 10 launches in East Edmonton
1987 - They Abandon the bid for QCTV in which Videotron won that franchise and instead looked towards Broadcasting (TV and Radio as of 1987) when they acquired CKGY (CKGY-FM) and CFCR-FM (CIZZ-FM) in Red Deer from Park Country Broadcasting as well as CHEC in Lethbridge and CKTA in Taber (Moved to Lethbridge and renamed CFEZ)
1988 - They Purchased CISN Holdings which was the Owner of CISN-FM
1990-1991 - Shaw Expanded Outside of both Alberta and Western Canada when they Acquired CHAY-FM in Barrie followed by CKDK-FM in Woodstock, both in Ontario
1992 - They Acquired CKLG-FM (CKGO, now home to CKNW) and CFOX-FM from Moffat Communications, Entering British Columbia for the First Time (CHFM, CITI and CKY were Sold to Rogers, CHAB, CFXX and CHAM were sold to Golden West Broadcasting and CHED and CKNG (Co-Owned with Maclean-Hunter) were sold to WIC-Westcom) and they Buy Cablecasting which gave them Cablesystems in Half of Winnipeg and Calgary
1993 - Shaw adds CHQT to their Broadcasting Quiver and because of the adding of CHQT (Now Home to CHED) buying it from Monarch, CFEZ which was renamed back to CKTA and CHEC were sold in Exchange, Shaw now owned a Station in their Hometown (The East Side of Edmonton as well as the West Side too)
1994 - They Acquire CFNY in Brampton (Sole Selkirk property under Maclean-Hunter) adding them a Station in Toronto and Rogers Swapped Cablesystems with Shaw (in return for Rogers getting some Ontario Systems from Shaw, Shaw would Acquire the Victoria Cablesystem in whole and other half of the Calgary cablesystem from Rogers)
1995 - They Acquire CUC Broadcasting which gave them a 34% share in YTV as well as some Cablesystems
1996 - They Buy CKRY-FM in Calgary and also New Country Network (it was Renamed on Halloween (Dark Night in YTV's Case) 1996 as Country Music Television bringing back a name that was abandoned with the American Version getting replaced with NCN since December 31, 1994/January 1, 1995)
1997 - Shaw Launches a Canadian version of DMX for Digital Cable and they Makes a 20% investment in Telelatino, they owned 26.7 (20% by 2000) of Teletoon (Main Partner is Family Channel which was co-owned by and Bundled with Astral's TMN and WIC's Superchannel), a 14.95 share in The Comedy Network (Main Partner and Current is CTV/Baton) and Treehouse (100% owned by Shaw through YTV) and they begin to Plan a Buyout of WIC
1998 - Shaw got Approval to move their Broadcasting Assets to Mediaco and then to Holdco and they Acquired a 47.85 stake in Headline Sports
1999 - Corus was Split out of Shaw and they Began their first acquisition with CFHK and CFPL AM/FM from Blackburn Radio (CFPL was under the Ownership of CHUM) bringing their Radio count from 11 pre-split to 14 post-split, then they sold their Stake in Headline Sports to Alliance Atlantis and also they Announced that they would buy Power Broadcasting adding 17 Radio Stations (11 in Ontario and 6 Quebec) and 4 TV Stations (3 in Ontario and 1 in Quebec/New Brunswick) to their fold and They alongside Shaw (The Company they split out of) and Canwest would announce that they would buy split up WIC in 2000
