Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment is a publicly traded Canadian media and entertainment conglomerate. Corus is a leading Canadian specialty television and radio producer, with additional assets in pay television, advertising services, television broadcasting, children's book publishing and children's animation. The company’s multimedia entertainment brands include YTV, Treehouse TV, W Network, Movie Central, CMT, Teletoon, Teletoon Retro, Encore Avenue, Nelvana, Nickelodeon Canada, ABC Spark, Cartoon Network and Kids Can Press. Their radio division includes radio stations in major markets like Toronto, Ontario; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Edmonton and Calgary in Alberta; and Vancouver, British Columbia. Corus owns 39 radio stations in Canada, and is Canada's fourth largest radio broadcaster, behind Bell Media Radio, Newcap Radio and Rogers Media. It was the largest owner of radio stations in Canada until 2007, when Astral Media acquired Standard Broadcasting from Slaight Communications. Corus Entertainment's voting majority is held by the company's founder J. R. Shaw and his family, which also owns cable operator and media group Shaw Communications Inc., from which Corus was spun off in 1999.