Score Media Inc. was a Canadian media company. Partially owned by

Alliance Atlantis Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (commonly known as Alliance Atlantis) was a Canadian media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada. Alliance Atlantis also had offices in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, Los ...

and later

Canwest Canwest Global Communications Corporation, which operated under the corporate name Canwest, was a major Canadian media conglomerate based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with its head offices at Canwest Place (now called 201 Portage). It held radio, ...

, its main asset was

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, a national specialty television service providing sports news, information, highlights, live events, and other sports-related entertainment programming. The company also owns closed captioning service Voice to Visual Inc., and

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promotion The Score Fighting Series. Prior to 19 October 2012, the company also owned a 20% stake in mobile and web development firm NuLayer, and various interactive properties including ''ScoreMobile'', ''ScoreMobile FC'', ''SportsTap'' and ''TheScore.ca''. These properties are now owned by theScore Inc. The company also previously owned and operated

The Score Satellite Radio Score Media Inc. was a Canadian media company. Partially owned by Alliance Atlantis and later Canwest, its main asset was The Score, a national specialty television service providing sports news, information, highlights, live events, and other s ...

; a satellite radio network available across North America on

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. The station shut down on 1 September 2011. The company was founded in 1997 as Headline Media Group Inc. by

Shaw Communications Shaw Communications Inc. was a Telecommunications in Canada, Canadian telecommunication, telecommunications company which provided telephone, Internet, television, and mobile services. The company was founded in 1966 as Capital Cable Televisio ...

and Levy family. Shaw Media was spun off to form

Corus Entertainment Corus Entertainment Inc. (often simply known as Corus) is a Canadian mass media and television production company. The company was founded in 1987 as Shaw Radio Ltd. as a subsidiary of Shaw Communications and was spun-off from Shaw in 1999. It h ...

in September 1999 and sold 48% stake to

the following month. In February 2005, it changed its name to Score Media Inc. AAC's stake was acquired by

in 2007.

Sale to Rogers

On 24 August 2012, reports surfaced that

Rogers Communications Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company operating primarily in the fields of wireless communications, cable television, telephony and Internet, with significant additional telecommunications and mass media ass ...

was planning to acquire Score Media for close to $160 million. The next day, those reports became reality when

Rogers Media Rogers Media Inc., operating as Rogers Sports & Media, is a Canadian subsidiary of Rogers Communications that owns the company's mass media and sports properties. Operations Current television brands owned by Rogers include two television sys ...

announced that it will acquire Score Media in a transaction valued at $167 million. The acquisition itself closed on 19 October 2012, at which point Score Media's digital assets were spun off into another company, theScore Inc., in which Rogers Media initially retained a 10% interest. Score Media's TV properties were immediately placed into a

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, under trustee Peter Viner, pending final CRTC approval, which came on 30 April 2013.

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