CF Cable TV was a Canadian cable company in the 1980s and 1990s. Owned by Jean Pouliot, a businessman in

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is ...

whose holdings also included

CFCF-TV CFCF-DT (channel 12) is a television station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside Noovo flagship CFJP-DT (channel 35). Both stations share studios at the ...

"CFCF issue is proving attractive to investors". '' The Globe and Mail'', June 18, 1985. and the TQS television network, CF Cable TV served parts of Montreal, Laval and western suburbs on the

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History

The company was established in 1982, when Pouliot acquired Cable TV Inc. from Starlaw Investments for a purchase price of $11.4 million. The company expanded significantly in 1993, acquiring Télécâble Laurentien in the

Outaouais Outaouais (, ; also commonly called The Outaouais) is a region of western Quebec, Canada. It includes the city of Gatineau, the municipality of Val-des-Monts and the Papineau region. Geographically, it is located on the north side of the Ottaw ...

region of Quebec and the Ottawa suburb of

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, and

Northern Cable Northern Cable was a Canadian cable television provider, which operated from 1975 to 1998. The company, based in Sudbury, Ontario, served most of the Northeastern Ontario region. Although CUC Broadcasting was the largest single shareholder,"Struggl ...

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."CFCF about to join cable giants: Planned purchase of Sudbury company will make Montreal firm fifth largest". '' The Globe and Mail'', September 30, 1993. The deals made CF Cable TV the fifth-largest cable operator in Canada. Both Laurentien and Northern continued to operate as separate divisions of the company rather than being folded into the CF Cable TV branding. In 1997, Pouliot sold CF Cable TV's parent company, CFCF Inc., to

Vidéotron Vidéotron is a Canadian integrated telecommunications company active in cable television, interactive multimedia development, video on demand, cable telephony, wireless communication and Internet access services. Owned by Quebecor, it primarily s ...

. Videotron sold the Northern Cable division to Regional Cablesystems in 1998,CRTC Decision 98-452

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, September 25, 1998. but still retained ownership of the Montreal and Outaouais divisions.

References

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