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.

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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 CFER-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 11, is a TVA owned-and-operated television station licensed to Rimouski, Quebec, Canada. The station is owned by the Groupe TVA subsidiary of Quebecor Media. CFER-DT's studios are located on Bouleva ...

Rimouski ** CHLT-DT Sherbrooke ** CHEM-DT Trois-Rivières **

CJPM-DT CJPM-DT, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 46), is a TVA owned-and-operated television station licensed to Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. The station is owned by the Groupe TVA subsidiary of Quebecor Media. CJPM-DT's studios and transmitte ...

Saguenay ** CKXT-DT Toronto ''(defunct)''

Specialty television

As of 2015, all of Groupe TVA's specialty television assets are

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Sun News Network Sun News Network (commonly shortened to Sun News) was a Canadian English language Category C news channel owned by Québecor Média through a partnership between two of its subsidiaries, TVA Group (which maintained 51% majority ownership of th ...

. 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 (launched January 11, 2024, replaced Yoopa) *

Témoin Témoin (''Witness'', formerly known as Mlle and Moi et Cie) is a Canadian French-language discretionary specialty channel owned by Groupe TVA. The network primarily broadcasts crime dramas and true crime programs. History The channel launche ...

- crime dramas and true crime *

TVA Sports TVA Sports is a Canadian French-language sports specialty channel owned by the Groupe TVA, a publicly traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media. The channel is a general-interest sports network, and the first major competitor to RDS, the only other F ...

- sports * Zeste - food-related entertainment and lifestyle programming Former *

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- business and financial news (channel ceased operations April 30, 2016) * The Cave - men lifestyle (51% as managing partner and channel sold to

Shaw Media Shaw Media, Inc. was the television broadcasting division of Shaw Communications. It owned the Global Television Network, which broadcasts nationally via 13 television stations, as well as 19 specialty channels including Slice (TV channel), Slice ...

on April 25, 2012, now owned by

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as of April 1, 2016) *

- news and opinion (51% as managing partner and channel ceased operations February 13, 2015) * Télé Achats - infomercials (channel ceased operations August 1, 2012) * Yoopa - children's (pre-school) programs (channel ceased operations January 11, 2024)

Other assets

* TVA Films (Film production and distributor) * TVA Productions (Television production) * TVA Publishing (magazine publisher, distributes over 70 titles) *

Télé Inter-Rives Télé Inter-Rives Limited ("Inter-Riverbank Television", literal translation) is a broadcasting company based in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec. The Simard family holds a 55% stake in Télé Inter-Rives, with Quebecor (owner of Groupe TVA and the T ...

(Independent broadcaster, owns 45% stake)

References

External links

Official website

CRTC chart of Groupe TVA's assets
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