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 changed its legal name to Groupe TVA inc. on February 17, 1998.[1][2] 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 inc.
TypePublicly traded subsidiary
TSX: TVA.B
IndustryDiversified media and broadcasting
Founded1960
Headquarters
Montreal, Quebec
,
Canada
Key people
Pierre Karl Péladeau, CEO
Pierre Francoeur, President;
ProductsBroadcasting
Magazines
Films
ServicesBroadcasting
Film production
Publishing
ParentQuebecor Media (99.97% voting interest)
Rogers Communications (0.03% voting interest)
SubsidiariesTVA Films
TVA Productions
TVA Publishing
Websitegroupetva.ca

Groupe TVA owns and operates the TVA network, the largest private French language television network in Canada. It also operates seven specialty channels, available via subscription television across Canada.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. [3]

Revenue
Channel NameRevenue (2013)
TVA Channel$79 million
ILLICO SUR DEMANDE57.221 m
Total Specialty Channels$112.636 million
addikTV10.594 m
Argent2.621 m
Évasion12.215 m
Canal Indigo8.192 m
Le Canal Nouvelles32.248 m
Casa8.094 m
Moi&cie3.526 m
Prise 27.417 m
TVA Sports15.020 m
Yoopa4.77 m
Sun News Network7.939 m
Groupe TVA Total249 m

Conventional television

Specialty television

As of 2015, all of Groupe TVA's specialty television assets are French-language as a result of the shutdown of the English-language Sun News Network.

Current

Former

  • Argent - business and financial news (channel ceased operations April 30, 2016)
  • The Cave - men lifestyle (51% as managing partner and channel sold to Shaw Media on April 25, 2012)
  • Sun News Network - news and opinion (51% as managing partner and channel ceased operations February 13, 2015)
  • Télé Achats - infomercials (channel ceased operations August 1, 2012)

Other assets
  • TVA Films (Film production and distributor)
  • TVA Productions (Television production)
  • TVA Publishing (magazine publisher, distributes over 70 titles)
  • Télé Inter-Rives (Independent broadcaster, owns 45% stake)

See also

References
  1. "Rapport annuel 2008" (PDF). TVA. 2008. p. 3. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  2. "Groupe TVA message". La Presse. Montreal. 28 February 1998. p. F7.
  3. http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/policymonitoring/2014/cmr4.htm
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