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ZoomerMedia Radio Stations
ZoomerMedia Limited is a Canadian media company. Founded by veteran media executive Moses Znaimer, the company has interests in radio, television, and digital media. The company focuses primarily on lifestyle properties appealing to adults 45–65 (including baby boomers), being formed from Znaimer's acquisition of publishing and digital assets affiliated with CARP. The company later acquired the broadcasting assets of S-VOX (including specialty channel VisionTV), and subsumed other privately held assets that had been owned by Znaimer directly (including three Toronto radio stations). In the 2020s, it began to expand into digital properties targeting a young adult audience, including ''BlogTO,'' ''Daily Hive'', ''The Peak'', and ''MobileSyrup''. History ZoomerMedia was announced in February 2008 by Moses Znaimer—a veteran Canadian media executive that had recently been named the executive director of CARP—via his acquisitions of Kemur Publishing and Fifty-Plus.Net Internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of share capital, stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange (listing (finance), listed company), which facilitates the trade of shares, or not (unlisted public company). In some jurisdictions, public companies over a certain size must be listed on an exchange. In most cases, public companies are ''private'' enterprises in the ''private'' sector, and "public" emphasizes their reporting and trading on the public markets. Public companies are formed within the legal systems of particular states and so have associations and formal designations, which are distinct and separate in the polity in which they reside. In the United States, for example, a public company is usually a type of corporation, though a corporation need not be a public company. In the United Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Networking Service
A social networking service (SNS), or social networking site, is a type of online social media platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. Social networking services vary in format and the number of features. They can incorporate a range of new information and communication tools, operating on desktops and on laptops, on mobile devices such as tablet computers and smartphones. This may feature digital photo/video/sharing and diary entries online (blogging). Online community services are sometimes considered social-network services by developers and users, though in a broader sense, a social-network service usually provides an individual-centered service whereas online community services are groups centered. Generally defined as "websites that facilitate the building of a network of contacts in order to exchange various t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CJOS-FM
CJOS-FM (92.3 FM broadcasting, FM, "Zoomer 92.3") is a radio station in Owen Sound, Ontario. Owned by ZoomerMedia, the station carries an oldies format. History On May 9, 2008, Larche Communications received approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, CRTC to operate a new FM radio station at 92.3 MHz in Owen Sound. The CJOS call sign formerly belonged to a CJOS-FM (Saskatchewan), religious station in Caronport, Saskatchewan, Caronport, Saskatchewan, which ceased broadcasting in 2006. On June 9, 2010, CJOS received CRTC approval to decrease their effective radiated power from 20,000 watts to 9,400 watts. The station officially signed on the air with a mix of rock music and classic hits as ''92.3 The Dock'' on July 26, 2010. On August 9, 2017, Bell Media announced that it would acquire CJOS from Larche Communications. Bell Media received approval from the CRTC on February 14, 2018. As part of a mass format reorganization by Bell Media, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell Media
Bell Media Inc. (Canadian French, French: ) is a Canadian media conglomerate that is the mass media subsidiary of BCE Inc. (also known as Bell Canada Enterprises, the owner of telecommunications company Bell Canada). Its operations include national television broadcasting and production (including the CTV Television Network, CTV and CTV 2 television networks), radio broadcasting (through iHeartRadio Canada), digital media (including Crave (streaming service), Crave) and Internet properties (including the now-defunct Sympatico portal). Bell Media is the successor-in-interest to Baton Broadcasting (later CTV Inc.), one of Canada's first private-sector television broadcasters. Although the company was founded in 1960 as Telegram Corporation, the current enterprise traces its origins to the establishment of Bell Globemedia Inc. in 2001 by BCE and the The Woodbridge Company, Thomson family, combining CTV Inc. (which BCE had acquired in 2000) and the operations of the Thomson family's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marketwire
GlobeNewswire provides press release distribution services globally, with substantial operations in North America, Europe and Asia. In 2025, Notified, parent company GlobeNewswire entered into an agreement to be acquired by Equiniti. GlobeNewswire was a Nasdaq, Inc. subsidiary from September 2006 until April 2018 when West Corporation (noNotified acquired the Public Relations Solutions and Digital Media Services Businesses, including GlobeNewswire. Formerly known as PrimeNewswire, the company changed its name to GlobeNewswire in 2008 to better reflect its international scope. History GlobeNewswire was established in 1998 with the goal of eliminating the 15-minute delay in disclosing financial releases to all media, as well as offering Investor Relations website management services, hosting online customer service centers, and delivering the news via HTML email. GlobeNewswire facilitates the distribution of corporate press releases, financial disclosures, and multimedia conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairfax Financial
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is a Canadian financial holding company based in Toronto, Ontario, engaged in property, casualty, insurance and reinsurance, investment management, and insurance claims management. The company operates primarily through several subsidiaries, including Allied World, Odyssey Re, Northbridge Financial, Crum & Forster, Verassure Insurance, Onlia Agency Inc., and Zenith Insurance Company. The company was also the largest shareholder of Torstar with 40% of the Class B shares, as of May 2020. Fairfax is led by chairman and CEO Prem Watsa, who controls nearly half of the firm. History Markel Fairfax was incorporated as Markel Service of Canada on March 13, 1951, and continued under the Canada Business Corporations Act in 1976. The name was subsequently changed to Markel Financial Holdings Ltd. In 1984, Prem Watsa left GW Asset Management to found his own asset management firm, Hamblin Watsa Investment Counsel Ltd. together with his former boss fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Radio-television And Telecommunications Commission
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC; ) is a public organization in Canada tasked with the mandate as a regulatory agency tribunal for various electronic communications, covering broadcasting and telecommunications. It was created in 1976 when it took over responsibility for regulating telecommunication carriers. Prior to 1976, it was known as the Canadian Radio and Television Commission, which was established in 1968 by the Parliament of Canada to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors. Its headquarters is located in the Central Building (Édifice central) of Les Terrasses de la Chaudière in Gatineau, Quebec. History The CRTC was originally known as the Canadian Radio-Television Commission. In 1976, jurisdiction over telecommunications services, most of which were then delivered by monopoly common carriers (for example, telephone companies), was transferred to it from the Canadian Transport Commission although the abbreviation CRTC re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Globe And Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Newspapers in Canada, Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in Western Canada, western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of more than 6 million in 2024, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it falls slightly behind the ''Toronto Star'' in overall weekly circulation because the ''Star'' publishes a Sunday edition, whereas the ''Globe'' does not. ''The Globe and Mail'' is regarded by some as Canada's "newspaper of record". ''The Globe and Mail''s predecessors, ''The Globe (Toronto newspaper), The Globe'' and ''The Daily Mail and Empire'' were both established in the 19th century. The former was established in 1844, while the latter was established in 1895 through a merger of ''The Toronto Mail'' and ''The Empire (Toronto), The Empire''. In 1936, ''The Globe'' and ''The Mail and Empire'' merged to form ''The Globe and Mail''. The newspaper was acquired by FP Publications in 1965, who later sold the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFZM
CFZM (740 kHz) is an commercial Canadian AM radio station in Toronto, Ontario. It is owned by ZoomerMedia, headed by Canadian broadcaster Moses Znaimer. It airs an adult standards and oldies format, branded as ''Zoomer Radio'', with the slogan "The Original Greatest Hits". The studios and offices are on Jefferson Avenue in the Liberty Village neighbourhood. CFZM is a Class A, clear channel station. It transmits with a power of 50,000 watts, the maximum for Canadian AM stations. It uses a non-directional antenna, with its transmitter on Auburn Road in Milton, near the 401 Freeway. Programming is also heard on a low power FM repeater in downtown Toronto on 96.7 MHz. Due to its transmitter power and southern Ontario's flat land, CFZM has an unusually large daytime coverage area, equivalent to that of a full-power FM station. Its city-grade signal covers all of Southern Ontario, much of upstate New York (including Buffalo, Rochester and Watertown), northwestern Pennsylv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFMX-FM
CFMX-FM (103.1 MHz) is a commercial radio station in Cobourg, Ontario, and serving the Peterborough area. It is owned by ZoomerMedia and airs a classical music format branded as ''Classical 103.1''. It is a semi-satellite of Toronto's 96.3 CFMZ-FM. All music programming originates from Toronto, although 24 hours per week of locally oriented talk, news and spoken word programming broadcasts from radio studios in Cobourg. During the simulcast music shows, CFMX-FM inserts local commercials. CFMX-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 86,700 watts. The transmitter is on Alnwick Hills Road in Baltimore. History Early years CFMX-FM was launched in 1979 by D. B. Williamson, who also owned Cobourg's CHUC 1450 AM. The station was plagued with financial and technical problems in its early years, and in 1981 its license was briefly suspended by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Williamson's company went into receivership in 1983, and the station w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFMZ-FM
CFMZ-FM (''The New Classical 96.3 FM'') is an FM radio station that is licensed to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Broadcasting on 96.3 MHz, the station is owned by ZoomerMedia and airs a classical music radio format. CFMZ's studios are located on Jefferson Avenue in Liberty Village, while its transmitter is located atop First Canadian Place in downtown Toronto. CFMZ-FM, along with its sister stations, CFMX-FM in Cobourg and CFMO-FM in Collingwood, are among only five commercial broadcasters in Canada with a purely classical music format. CFMZ-FM and its sister stations are the only one that broadcasts in English. CJPX-FM Montreal and CJSQ-FM Quebec City broadcast in French. As of 2018, CFMZ-FM was the third most listened-to private station in Toronto, behind adult Contemporary CHFI-FM and classic hits CHBM-FM. History Cobourg radio station CFMX-FM has been broadcasting since 1982, although it had gone on the air and off again, several times, between 1976 and 1982. CFMZ first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One (Canadian TV Channel)
One (often referred to as ONE: Get Fit or ONETV) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English language Discretionary service, discretionary cable television, cable and satellite television, satellite specialty channel owned by ZoomerMedia. It offers lifestyle and entertainment programming devoted to programming on yoga and meditation, weight loss and fitness, sex and relationships, natural health and nutrition, and alternative medicine. Additionally, it provides general entertainment programming during primetime. History On November 24, 2000, a consortium consisting of Vision TV Digital (a subsidiary of S-VOX), RNC Media, Radio Nord Communications and Wisdom Media Group, were granted approval for a Category 1 specialty channel, Category 1 television licence by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). The channel was tentatively known as Wisdom: Canada's Body, Mind & Spirit Channel. Prior to the channel's launch, its ownership was restructured giving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
