About Us

Bell Media is Canada’s leading content creation company with premier assets in television, radio, out-of-home advertising, digital media, and more.

As Canada’s destination for news, sports, and entertainment across every screen, Bell Media properties receive top viewership in conventional television, pay TV and specialty channels, and continued growth in digital platforms like the bilingual Crave.

For the 2019–2020 broadcast year, Bell Media is working with approximately 60 production companies across the country to create hundreds of hours of original content in both French and English. Widely recognized as a strong supporter of Canadian content, Bell Media and its partners received 227 nominations for the 2020 Canadian Screen Awards, including 142 television and digital nominations and 85 for Bell Media-supported films.

Television

Bell Media owns 35 local television stations led by CTV, Canada’s highest-rated television network, and the French-language Noovo network in Québec; 29 specialty channels, including leading specialty services TSN and RDS.

• Led by CTV, Canada’s #1 TV network for 19 consecutive years.
• CTV has the top national and local newscasts with CTV NATIONAL NEWS WITH LISA LAFLAMME and local brand CTV News.
• Combined, CTV and CTV 2 reach more than 23 million viewers each week.
• In April and May 2020, Bell Media acquired French-language conventional network V and ad-supported video on demand service Noovo.ca. On August 31st, the network was rebranded Noovo, establishing a singular brand in Québec for both a traditional TV network and its popular digital platform.
• TSN is Canada’s most-watched specialty network.
• RDS is Quebec’s most-watched specialty network.
• In 2019, Bell Media successfully rebranded specialty channels The Comedy Network, Space, Bravo and Gusto as CTV Comedy Channel, CTV Sci-Fi Channel, CTV Drama Channel and CTV Life Channel. 

Crave

• Crave is a bilingual TV and streaming service with more Oscar®-nominated and Emmy® Award-winning programming than any other service. Offering more than 6,000 hours of exclusive French-language content included with the Super Écran add-on. Crave is available directly to all Canadians with access to the Internet at Crave.ca, via iOS and Android, and other platforms. Visit our website at Crave.ca.

Bell Media Studios

• Bell Media Studios is Canada’s Bell Media Studios is Canada’s leading end-to-end content creator, developing and producing 80 hours of live and taped programming in-house, each week. Award-winning titles include ETALK, THE MARILYN DENIS SHOW, THE SOCIAL, YOUR MORNING, and many original specials. The Bell Media Studios-run Exploration Production Inc. (EPI) is a multi-award-winning producer of ambitious, original, entertaining factual documentaries and series, for both Discovery Canada and other international broadcasters.

Pinewood Toronto Studios

• As the majority owner of Pinewood Toronto Studios, Bell Media Studios also oversees operations of the 33.5 acre (13.5 hectares) facility in Toronto’s Port Lands. The complex includes 11 purpose-built stages, offices, teaching facilities, and support services for a growing roster of domestic and international film and television clients.

Radio

• Bell Media is Canada’s largest radio broadcaster, with 215 music channels including 109 licensed radio stations in 58 markets across the country, all part of the iHeartRadio brand and streaming service.
• In 2019, audiences grew to 16.8 million listeners, up from 16.6 million in 2018, who spent approximately 77 million hours tuning into Bell Media radio stations every week during fall 2019, or 2.5 times the audience of our closest competitor.

Digital

• The country’s digital media leader, Bell Media develops and operates websites, apps, and online platforms for its news and entertainment brands; video streaming services Crave, TSN Direct, RDS Direct and Noovo.ca; and multi-channel network Much Studios.

Out-of-Home

• Astral is a leader among Canada’s out-of-home advertising companies with more than 50,000 faces strategically located across the country. Astral offers six product lines: outdoor advertising, lifestyle networks, street furniture, airport, large digital format, and transit. Driving innovation on one of the country’s most dynamic media platforms, Astral is committed to leading technological change, offering advertisers increased opportunities to deliver powerful messages that engage and connect with consumers.