Canwest
Sign in to saveCanwest 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, television broadcasting, and publishing assets in several countries, primarily Canada.
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Vinony's link graph records 713 inbound references to Canwest, and connects out to The Gazette, Postmedia Network and Toronto Stock Exchange.
Vinony files it under 1974 establishments in Manitoba, 1991 initial public offerings and 2010 disestablishments in Manitoba.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- broadcaster
- Country
- Canada
- Founded by
- Izzy Asper
- Headquarters
- Winnipeg
- Industry
- telecommunications
- Followed by
- Postmedia Network
- Official website
- www.canwest.com
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- inception
- 1974-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2010-10-27
- product or material produced
- television
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Beginnings
- Beyond broadcasting and the newspapers
- Restructuring, creditor protection, bankruptcy, and liquidation
- Sale of assets to Shaw and Postmedia
- Corporate governance
- Board of directors
- Editorial controversies
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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, television broadcasting, and publishing assets in several countries, primarily Canada.
Canwest was founded in 1974 by Izzy Asper through the formation of CIII-TV in Toronto under the Global Television Network. The company expanded through the 1980s and 1990s, with the initial public offering in 1991 as a publicly traded corporation and the international expansion of its operations in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Turkey. Throughout the years, under Leonard Asper, who became its president and CEO in 1999, Canwest grew into a major media powerhouse by acquiring media properties such as Western International Communications and the Southam newspaper publishing. In 2007, with Goldman Sachs, Canwest acquired the broadcasting arm of Alliance Atlantis.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Canwest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.