Corus Entertainment
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Corus Entertainment Inc. TSX: CJR.B NYSE: CJR is a privately held Canadian media and entertainment company.
Corus is a market leader in specialty television and radio with additional assets in pay television, advertising and digital audio services, television broadcasting, children's book publishing and children's animation. The company’s multimedia entertainment brands include YTV, Treehouse, W Network, Movie Central, SCREAM, Nelvana, Kids Can Press and radio stations including CKNW, CKOI and Q107. Corus creates engaging branded entertainment experiences for its audiences across multiple platforms.
Corus Entertainment's voting majority is held by the company's founder JR Shaw and his family, which also owns Shaw Communications, from which Corus was spun off in 1999.
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Current members of the board of directors of Corus Entertainment are: Pierre Béland, John Cassaday, Dennis Erker, Carolyn Hursh, Wendy Leaney, Ronald Rogers, Cathy Roozen, Terrance Royer, Julie Shaw, and Heather Shaw.
- John Cassaday, President and CEO
- Heather Shaw, Executive Chair
- Treehouse TV
- W Network
- YTV
- CMT Canada (90%)
- Discovery Kids (Canada) (80%)
- Documentary Channel (53%) (To be sold to the CBC, sale awaiting CRTC approval)
- SCREAM (51%)
- Telelatino (50.5%)
- TELETOON (50%)
- Food Network Canada (22.58%)
In addition, Corus also has an ownership interest in Qubo, a United States-based children's programming block and digital television network.
- Barrie - CHAY, CIQB
- Burlington - CJXY
- Calgary - CFGQ, CHQR, CKRY
- Cambridge - CJDV
- Collingwood - CKCB
- Cornwall - CFLG, CJSS, CJUL
- Edmonton - CHED, CHQT, CKNG, CISN
- Gatineau - CJRC
- Guelph - CIMJ, CJOY
- Hamilton - CHML, CING
- Kingston - CFFX, CFMK
- London - CFPL, CFPL-FM
- Montmagny - CFEL
- Montreal - CFQR, CHMP, CINF, CINW, CKAC, CKOI
- Peterborough - CKRU, CKWF
- Quebec City - CFOM, CHRC
- Saguenay - CKRS
- Saint-Jérôme - CIME
- Sherbrooke - CHLT
- St. Thomas - CFHK
- Toronto - CFMJ, CFNY, CILQ
- Trois-Rivières - CHLN
- Vancouver - CFMI, CFOX, CHMJ, CKNW
- Winnipeg - CJKR, CJOB
- Woodstock - CKDK
- Nelvana; a production and distribution company of children's animation programs
- Kids Can Press; a children's book publishing company
- Corus Custom Networks; a television advertising service
- Max Trax; a digital television music radio service