Moffat Communications
Defunct Canadian broadcasting and cable company
Moffat Communications was a Canadian cable and broadcasting company. Privately owned by the Moffat family, the company was based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It first went public on the stock market in 1972.[1]
In an interview with the Free Press reporter Paul Sullivan in November 1978, Moffat CEO Ronald Moffat predicted that Canada will introduce DBS services by 1983 and will beam superstations across the country.[1]
They had 60% interest in Consumer Behavior Centre Inc. of Dallas, Texas, an advertising research subsidiary.[1]
Assets
The company owned the following media businesses in Canada and the United States:[1]
Media
- Videon Cable-TV
- CKY-TV
- CKY
- CITI-FM
- WTN
- Florida Satellite Network
- Kingwood Cable and Lakewood Cable
- CKXL
- CHED (AM)
- CHAB (AM)
- CKLG
- CFOX-FM
- CKNG-FM
- CHFM-FM
- CHAM
Other
- Consumer Behavior Centre Inc.
- Winnipeg Jets
- CKBI (once owned by Lloyd Moffat) [2]
In the 1990s Moffat Communications divested itself of the Winnipeg Jets and in 1996, the NHL franchise relocated to Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Radio stations CHFM, CKY and CITI were sold to Rogers Communications, and Half of CHED and CKNG to CFCN Communications Limited and later in 1992 to Westcom Radio Group. Also that year, radio stations CHAM, CHAB and CFXX (formerly CKXL Calgary) were sold to Golden West Broadcasting, and CKLG and CFOX to Shaw Cablesystems. In 2001 the company was sold to Shaw Communications which already owned CKLG and CFOX-FM Through Corus Radio Company. Later, it was sold to Corus Entertainment, which resold CKY-TV to Bell Globemedia, and WTN to Corus Entertainment.
References
- ^ a b c d Sullivan, Paul (November 18, 1978). "Canadian TV must hitch to satellite technology". Winnipeg Free Press. p. 56.
- ^ Canadian Communication Broadcast. "Moffat Communications". History of Canadian Broadcasting. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
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- Christy Clark
- Jim Dinning
- Ron Joyce
- Charles Keating
- Don Mazankowski
- Jim Shaw
- JR Shaw
- CPAC (23.68%)2,4
- Shaw Broadcast Services
- Shaw Direct
- Shaw Multicultural Channel3
- Shaw PPV
- Shaw Spotlight3
brands and predecessors
- Moffat Communications
- MSNBC Canada4
- Western International Communications
- Shaw Media
- Shomi4
- CJBN-TV Kenora
- 1The voting shares of both Shaw and Corus are controlled by the Shaw family.
- 2Joint venture with several other cable companies.
- 3Community channels owned by Shaw Cablesystems.
- 4Joint venture with partners including Rogers Communications.
Many of the assets listed above are only partially owned by Shaw. Refer to full asset list for detailed information.
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