About us

Bell Media is Canada’s premier multimedia company with leading assets in television, radio and digital. With passion and an unrelenting commitment to excellence, Bell Media entertains, informs and inspires Canadians.

Bell Media owns 28 conventional stations, including CTV, Canada’s #1 television network, and owns and operates 30 specialty channels, including TSN, Canada’s #1 specialty channel and RDS, Canada’s #1 French-language specialty channel. Bell Media also owns 33 radio stations, dozens of websites, Dome Productions, and has partnered with Cirque du Soleil to form Cirque du Soleil Media, a Montréal-based production company.

Bell Media is owned by BCE Inc. (TSX, NYSE: BCE), Canada’s largest communications company.

Conventional television

In 1971, Baton Broadcasting Incorporated was formed and over the next 26 years, the company acquired numerous television stations and assets that would form the CTV television network. In 2007, CTV Inc. acquired six A-Channel stations through the purchase of CHUM Limited. In 2011, /A\ network was rebranded as CTV Two.

CTV has been the most-watched and #1 television network in Canada for more than 10 years. Additionally, CTV's TV stations now broadcast the top-ranked local newscasts in 9 of the 12 major Canadian markets. Combined CTV and CTV Two reach more than 25 million viewers each week.

Building on a strong past and continuously forging ahead with cutting-edge programming, CTV is the television destination for Canadian viewers. As a Canadian broadcaster, CTV recognizes the importance of nurturing homegrown creative talent, and has had enormous success developing the country’s most-watched original Canadian productions.

CTV aims to create appointment television for viewers across the country with homegrown hits (such as THE LISTENER, SAVING HOPE, and FLASHPOINT) and hit programming acquired from around the world (such as THE BIG BANG THEORY, X-FACTOR, CRIMINAL MINDS and GREY’S ANATOMY.) CTV is also the home of Canada’s most-watched live television events, including the Super Bowl, Academy Awards, Golden Globes and The JUNO Awards.

In February and March 2010, CTV, as leading partners in Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, galvanized our country with its unparalleled coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The most ambitious media initiative in Canadian history, the unprecedented multiplatform, multilingual coverage achieved ratings records, delivering the most-watched programming in the history of Canadian television. Ninety-nine per cent of Canadians experienced the Olympic Games through the Consortium’s television, online, print, mobile and radio platforms.

Source: BBM Spring 2012 Diary Sweep - Extended Markets
Source: BBM Canada, Total Canada, BY2011-12: 9/19/2011 – 5/27/2012

Specialty television

With the acquisition of NetStar Communications Inc. in 1999 and the purchase of CHUM in 2007, Bell Media has assembled a comprehensive and diverse group of specialty channels. Properties include:

• Canada’s #1 specialty channel, TSN, as well as sister channels RDS and RIS Info Sports
• Factual channels Discovery, Discovery World HD, Discovery Science and Investigation Discovery
• Music and genre brands MTV, MuchMusic, Bravo!, The Comedy Network, Comedy Gold, E!, SPACE and FashionTelevisionChannel
• News properties CTV News Channel, CP24 and BNN (Business News Network)

From sports, business and news to music, arts and entertainment, Bell Media’s specialty channels offer a variety of homegrown and mainstream programming for all audiences.

Bell Media Radio

Bell Media Radio has long been established as one of Canada’s leading radio groups, operating 33 stations in large and small communities across the country, including Toronto’s CHUM FM, Canada’s #1 FM station.

Recognizing the diversity of each market it serves, Bell Media Radio has a strong reputation for providing exemplary service to these communities. In addition to music, news, weather and sports, listeners also tune in for information on local politics, events, entertainment and other community issues.

Bell Media Digital

Canadian consumers have made Bell Media their online network destination of choice for news, sports and entertainment. From July 2011 to April 2012, the Bell Media family of websites streamed more than 1.5 billion videos, averaging 150 million video streams each month. The websites welcomed on average 15 million unique visitors each month, serving up 87 million hours of video and a grand total of over 6.1 billion page views during this period.

Featuring dynamic, interactive content and the best delivery infrastructure in the country, Bell Media Digital’s multimedia platforms include video online, websites, user-generated content sites, mobile content and video on demand. Bell Media Digital is also home to TheLoop.ca, Canada's daily online destination to inform, entertain, and inspire Canadians with fresh, fun, shareable content.

Source: comScore, comScore Media Metrix, comScore Video Metrix (July 2011 – April 2012)