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Top 5 Players Canada’s Top Media, Internet & Telecom Wireline % MARKET SHARE Wireless Companies by Market Share (2017) Internet Access Cable cmcrp.org | [email protected] Broadcast TV & Pay TV 47% 31% Radio Newspaper & Magazine 25% Internet Advertising & Subscriptions Over-the-top (OTT) Subscriptions 16.5% 29% 27.5% 28% 29% 16.5% 0.1% Twitter 30% 1.4% 21% Wireline 3% 12% 0.1% GROUPE Wireless CAPITALE 33% 11% 9% Internet Access MEDIA 15% Cable 5% 18% Wireline Broadcast TV & Pay TV 13% Wireless Radio 72.5% Internet Access Over the top (OTT) Subscriptions 0.2% POWER CORP 7.3% Cable 12% 6% 8% top 5 players5% 2% Wireline 12% Wireless 23% Internet Access 0.8% EastLink control 72.5 % of the entire15% media economy* Cable 3% GLOBE & MAIL 8% Broadcast TV & Pay TV 2% 0.2% Wireline Radio 0.9% POSTMEDIA 1% 7% Magazines Wireless 1.4% SaskTel 30% 4.7% Internet Access 2.0% Facebook 1% Cable 2% Broadcast TV & Pay TV 23.3% 3% Radio 2% 0.9% TORSTAR 9% 2% 27% 12% 2% 1.0% NETFLIX 6% Wireline 4.3% Google Wireless 2.0% CBC 1.6% COGECO 7% Internet Access 6% 6% Cable 85% Broadcast TV & Pay TV Newspaper & Magazine 50% *market share is based 16% 16% on revenue 1% 5% 0.1% CONTENT OWNERSHIP: BELL Discovery World HD) TSN Radio, Énergie and Sportsnet (formerly Rogers SHAW Fyi (Twist TV) TreeHouse TV addikTV (formerly Mys- Canadian Living Calgary Herald The Hamilton Spectator POWERCORP Broadcast TV & Pay TV E! (formerly Star! TV) Rouge FM brands Sportsnet) & Hockey Night in Canada Broadcast TV & Pay TV H2 (The Cave, Men TV) Univision Canada tère) Clin d’oeil Cornwall Standard Freeholder Niagara Falls Review La Press CTV (22 stations, 2 affiliates) ESPN Classic OTT Subscription Sportsnet One Global (15 stations, 3 affiliates) HGTV Canada W Network Canal Indigo Coup de pouce Edmonton Journal Peterborough Examiner CTV Two (7 stations, 2 regional MTS Video on Demand CraveTV Sportsnet PPV ABC Spark History Television YTV Casa - (formerly Les idées de Échos vedettes London Free Press St. Catharines Standard GROUPE CAPITALES MÉDIAS cable channels) MTV2 Sportsnet World ACTION La Chaine Disney Shaw on Demand ma maison) Elle Canada (51%) Montreal Gazette Waterloo Region Record Le Nouvelliste, Trois-Rivieres Animal Planet MTV (Canada) ROGERS Viceland BBC Canada Lifetime (Showcase Diva) Radio Illico sur demande Elle Québec (51%) Ottawa Citizen Welland Tribune” La Tribune, Sherbrooke Bell TV on Demand Space Broadcast TV & Pay TV Radio BC News 1 Movie Time (Lonestar) 39 stations in British Colum- Le Canal Nouvelles (LCN) Good Times (50%) Regina Leader-Post Grand River Valley Record La Voix de l’Est, Granby BNN Bloomberg The Comedy Network City (6 stations, 1 regional 55 stations in five provinces, includ- Cartoon Network National Geographic Channel bia, Alberta, Manitoba and Moi&cie (formerly Mlle) Le Guide de l’auto The StarPhoenix “StarMetro Toronto Le Soleil, Quebec Bravo! The Movie Network cable channel, 3 affiliates) ing Sportsnet brandÉnergie and CMT Nickelodeon Ontario, including Global Prise 2 (formerly Nostal- La Semaine The Vancouver Sun StarMetro Calgary Le Quotidien, Chicoutimi CablePulse 24 (CP24) The Sports Network OMNI (5 stations) Rouge FM brands Cooking Channel OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network News Radio brand gie) Star inc. Windsor Star StarMetro Edmonton Le Droit, Ottawa/Gatineau Câblevision du Nord de Québec (TSN) FX (formerly FX Canada) Newspapers & Magazines Cosmopolitan TV Series+ TVA Sports Star Système Calgary Sun StarMetro Vancoucer inc., Val d’Or Z (formerly Ztélé) FXX (Canada) Maclean’s Crime + Investigation Showcase QUEBECOR YOOPA (formerly TVA Ju- Style at Home Edmonton Sun StarMetro Halifax Canal D Leaf TV G4 (Canada)Outdoor Life Chatelaine DejaView Slice Broadcast TV & Pay TV nior) TV Hebdo Ottawa Sun Winnipeg Sun Canal Vie NBA TV Network (OLN) Hello! Canada D.I.Y. Network Telebimbi TVA (6 stations, 4 affiliates) Newspapers & Maga- Quebecor Media Book Group Toronto Sun CINÉPOP Comedy Gold Radio Rogers on Demand Key Publishers Co. Ltd. DTOUR (TVtropolis) Teleninos (All Spanish Children’s Évasion zines Groupe Librex Winnipeg Sun GLOBE & MAIL News Channel 109 stations in eight prov- Sportsnet 360 (formerly The EuroWorld SPORT television) TV5 - Unis 7 jours POSTMEDIA TORSTAR Globe & Mail Discovery Channel inces, including Virgin Radio, Score) Food Network Canada Teletoon/Teletoon Zeste (formerly Cuisine) Canadian Gardening National Post Toronto Star .
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