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Bell Media Inc.

Type	Subsidiary
Industry	Media (Television, Radio, Digital Media)
Predecessor	CHUM Limited Craig Media Electrohome Mid-Canada Communications Telegram Corporation Access Media Group Astral Media
Founded	1960 (as Baton Broadcasting) 2001 (as Bell Globemedia) 2007 (as CTVglobemedia) 2011 (as Bell Media)
Headquarters	299 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Area served	Canada
Key people	Randy Lennox President, Bell Media Stuart Garvie President, Media Sales and Marketing, Bell Media Tracey Pearce President, Distribution and Pay Stewart Johnston President, Bell Media Studios and TSN
Number of employees	5,000+
Parent	BCE Inc.
Divisions	CTV Inc. Bell Media Radio
Website	bellmedia.ca

CTVglobemedia, Inc.

Former type	Private/Joint venture
Industry	Media (television, radio, newspapers)
Fate	Most broadcast assets sold to BCE Inc. under the Bell Media sudsidary Two radio stations (CHBN-FM and CHST-FM) sold to Rogers Media. travel + escape sold to Glassbox Television The Globe and Mail sold to The Globe and Mail Inc. Dissolved
Successor	Bell Media
Founded	1960 (as Baton Broadcasting) 2001 (as Bell Globemedia) 2007 (as CTVglobemedia)
Defunct	April 1, 2011
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Key people	Ivan Fecan, President and CEO; CEO, CTV Kevin Crull, COO; president-designate (mid-2011)
Owner	The Woodbridge Company (Thomson family) (40%) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (25%) Torstar (20%) BCE Inc. (15%)
Divisions	The Globe and Mail, CTV, CHUM Radio (now Bell Media Radio)
Website	www.ctvglobemedia.com

Bell Media Inc. (French: Bell Média) is the mass media subsidiary of BCE Inc. (also known as Bell Canada Enterprises, the parent company of the former telephone monopoly Bell Canada). Its operations include television broadcasting and production (including the CTV and CTV Two television networks), radio broadcasting (through Bell Media Radio), digital media (including CraveTV) and Internet properties including Sympatico.ca.

Bell Media is the successor-in-interest to Baton Broadcasting (later CTV Inc.), one of Canada's first private-sector television broadcasters. The company in its current form was originally established as Bell Globemedia by BCE and the Thomson family in 2001 combining CTV Inc., which Bell had acquired the previous year, and the operations of the Thomsons' The Globe and Mail. Bell sold the majority of its interest in 2006 (at which point the company was renamed CTVglobemedia), but re-acquired the entire company, excluding the Globe, in 2011.

For all practical purposes, Bell Media is the successor to Baton Broadcasting Inc. (/ˈbeɪtɒn/ BAY-ton), which by the late 1990s had become one of Canada's largest broadcasters.

Baton Aldred Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. was originally formed in 1960 to operate Toronto's first private TV station, CFTO-TV. The original investors included the Bassett and Eaton families, Joel Aldred and Ted Rogers, and Foster Hewitt in a much smaller role. Aldred sold his shares in 1961, followed by Rogers by 1970; with the Bassett and Eaton families firmly in control, the company went public in the early 1970s. CFTO was one of the charter affiliates of CTV when that network formed in 1961, becoming the network's flagship. In 1966, Baton became a part-owner in the network when it was reorganized as a station-owned cooperative. The Board of Broadcast Governors was initially skeptical about the proposal to turn CTV into a cooperative. Since CFTO was by far the largest and richest station in the network, the BBG feared Baton would take advantage of this to dominate the network. However, it approved the deal after Baton and the other owners included a provision in the cooperative's bylaws stipulating that the eight station owners would each have a single vote regardless of audience share. Additionally, if one owner ever bought another station, the acquired station's shares would be redistributed among the remaining owners so that each owner would still have one vote out of eight.