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Bell Media traces its roots to 1960, when Baton Aldred Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. was formed to launch CFTO-TV in Toronto. The company took its current name on the 1st of April 2011, when BCE renamed CTVglobemedia Inc. as Bell Media Inc.
Bell Media is the mass media subsidiary of BCE Inc., the parent company of telecommunications provider Bell Canada. BCE acquired full ownership of the broadcasting business in a deal that closed on the 1st of April 2011.
Bell Media operates CTV, Canada's oldest and most-watched private broadcast network, along with the secondary network CTV 2 and the Quebec network Noovo. It also owns 27 English-language and 12 French-language specialty television channels.
Bell Media launched CraveTV in December 2014 as a subscription video on demand service available only through television providers. It became a standalone service, without a television subscription required, on the 14th of January 2016.
BCE cut 1,300 positions across its telecom and media operations in June 2023, including 6 percent of Bell Media's roughly 5,645 employees. On the 8th of February 2024, BCE cut a further 4,800 positions, 10 percent of them at Bell Media, citing declining revenue and new CRTC rules requiring wholesale access to its fibreoptic network.
Sean Cohan has been president of Bell Media since early 2024. He replaced Wade Oosterman, whose retirement BCE announced on the 3rd of October 2023, and Cohan previously worked as an executive at A&E Networks and Nielsen.