Groupe TVA
Groupe TVA Inc. is a Canadian communications company with operations in broadcasting, publishing and production. It was founded as Télé-Métropole Corporation in 1960, and owned CFTM-TV, Montreal's first privately owned francophone station. It changed its legal name to Groupe TVA inc. on February 17, 1998. Quebecor Media holds voting control of the company through near-complete control of Groupe TVA's Class A shares; only the non-voting Class B shares are currently publicly traded.
Groupe TVA owns and operates the TVA network, the largest private French language television network in Canada and the most watched television network in Quebec. It also operates seven specialty channels, available via subscription television across Canada, and a motion picture division. TVA and its specialty channels have a 69% share of revenue in the French speaking market. The total value of the private Francophone sector is $491 million of which $349 million goes to TVA.
Revenue
Conventional television
- TVA
- * CFTM-DT Montreal
- * CFCM-DT Quebec City
- * CFER-DT Rimouski
- * CHLT-DT Sherbrooke
- * CHEM-DT Trois-Rivières
- * CJPM-DT Saguenay
- * CKXT-DT Toronto ''''
Specialty television
Current
- Addik - film and television series
- Canal Indigo - PPV movie service
- LCN - 24 hour news
- CASA - lifestyle and real estate
- Évasion - travel and adventure
- Prise 2 - retro film and television series
- QUB - public affairs and social issues, TV simulcast of Qub Radio
- Témoin - crime dramas and true crime
- TVA Sports - sports
- Zeste - food-related entertainment and lifestyle programming
- Argent - business and financial news
- The Cave - men lifestyle
- Sun News Network - news and opinion
- Télé Achats - infomercials
- Yoopa - children's programs
Other assets
- TVA Films
- TVA Productions
- TVA Publishing
- Télé Inter-Rives