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Canwest Global Communications Corporation,which operated under the corporate nameCanwest,was a majorCanadianmedia conglomeratebased inWinnipeg,Manitoba,with its head offices atCanwest Place(Now called 201 Portage). It heldradio,televisionbroadcasting, andpublishingassets in several countries, primarily in Canada.

2737469 Canada Inc.
FormerlyCanwest Global Communications Corporation
Company typePublic
TSX:CGS
TSX:CGS.A
NYSE:CWG
IndustryMass media
Founded1974;50 years ago(1974)
FounderIzzy Asper
DefunctOctober 27, 2010;14 years ago(2010-10-27)(operations)
May 27, 2013;11 years ago(2013-05-27)(dissolution)
FateBankruptcyAndLiquidation
SuccessorShaw Media(broadcasting) andPostmedia Network(publishing spin-off)
Headquarters201 PortageAvenue,
Winnipeg,Manitoba
,
Canada
Area served
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, United Kingdom, Turkey
Key people
Derek H. Burney
(Chairmanof theBoard)
RevenueC$2.867 billion (2009)
C$ 197 million (2009)
C$ −1.689 billion (2009)
Total assetsC$ 3.876 billion (1Q 2010)
Total equityC$ −449 million (1Q 2010)
Number of employees
12,072 (May 2009)
Footnotes / references
[1]

Canwest was founded in 1974 byIzzy Asperthrough the formation ofCIII-TVinTorontounder theGlobal Television Network.The company expanded through the 1980s and 1990s, with theinitial public offeringin 1991 as a publicly-traded corporation and the international expansion of its operations inIreland,Australia,New Zealand,United KingdomandTurkey.Throughout the years, underLeonard Asper,who became its President and CEO in 1999, Canwest grew into a major media powerhouse by acquiring media properties such asWestern International Communicationsand theSouthamnewspaper publishing. In 2007, withGoldman Sachs,Canwest acquired the broadcasting arm ofAlliance Atlantis.[2]

After years of debt, Canwest began to slowly collapse in 2008, amid theGreat Recessionand later enteredbankruptcy protectionin late 2009, which led to the sales of its publishing and broadcasting arms the following year toPostmedia Network,founded byNational PostCEOPaul GodfreyandShaw Communications,which later reorganized its media division asShaw Media.[3][4]On April 1, 2016, the broadcasting assets were subsumed intoCorus Entertainment,an existing broadcasting firm also owned by the Shaw family.[5][6]

Following the sale of assets, the company was renamed2737469 Canada Inc.,ceased to carry on business, and commencedbankruptcyproceedings under theBankruptcy and Insolvency Actbefore finally being dissolved on May 27, 2013.[7][8]

Operations

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See also:List of assets owned by Corus Entertainment

As of April 2009 (prior to seeking creditor protection), Canwest owned, in whole or part, a variety of Canadian media assets, including:

The company had previously sold off some of the smaller newspapers it had acquired in the Southam purchase. Canwest also previously owned broadcasting operations inAustralia(as majority shareholder ofNetwork Ten),New Zealand(throughCanWest MediaWorks New Zealand), theRepublic of Ireland(as a minority shareholder ofTV3) andTurkey(as the owners of four radio stations).

History

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Beginnings

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In 1974, a group led byIsrael Asperbought the assets ofPembina, North Dakotatelevision stationKCND-TVfrom broadcasterGordon McLendon,moving the station to Winnipeg as an independent stationCKND-TV.Asper, through his company, Canwest, eventually bought out his partners in the Winnipeg station. A few months later, the Asper group joined a consortium that bought CKGN-TV, a network of six simulcasting transmitters acrossOntariothat carried many of CKND's programs and was known on-air as theGlobal Television Network.Canwest bought controlling interest in Global, now using the callsignCIII-TV,in 1985, thus becoming the first western-based owner of a major Canadian broadcaster. He acquired the remaining stock in 1989.[9]

Canwest subsequently invested in or acquired other independent TV stations across Canada. Eventually, his station group became known as the "Canwest Global System." In 1997, Canwest bought a controlling interest inCKMI-TV,the privately owned CBC affiliate inQuebec City.Canwest then set up CKMI rebroadcasters inMontrealandSherbrooke.With this move, Canwest's stations now had enough coverage of Canada that on August 18—the day CKMI officially disaffiliated from CBC—Canwest scrubbed all local brands from its stations, rebranding them as "The Global Television Network," Canada's third television network. Throughout the 1990s, Global (and its antecedents) held Canadian rights to hit U.S. series such asCheers,Friends,andFrasier.

Canwest also bought broadcasting assets internationally, including outlets inNew Zealand,theRepublic of Ireland,andAustralia,although all were eventually sold off. In 1991, Canwest issued a successful initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange. In June 1996, Canwest was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.[10]

Beyond broadcasting and the newspapers

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Lacking a presence inAlberta,the company set its sights onWestern International Communications,which owned three independent stations in that province that carried Global programming. It eventually bought that company's broadcasting assets in 2000. This not only boosted Global's coverage in western Canada but prompted the establishment of a second over-the-air service, originally known asCH,since in some areas the combined company had duplicate over-the-air coverage through multiple stations. Later that year, Canwest announced its acquisition of the Southam newspaper chain fromConrad Black,in order to pursue amedia convergencestrategy.[citation needed]

The CanWest logo used from 1997 to 2008.

Canwest was initially slow to invest inspecialty channelsdue to the strength of its terrestrial network. In 1999, seeking to change this, the company announced a deal to buy out the Canadian partners ofNetStar Communications,owner ofTSN,but was stymied by U.S. partnerESPN,which had veto power over such a sale. ESPN instead came to terms with Canwest's main rivalCTV,a longtime business partner of ESPN's parent companyDisney,as an acceptable buyer,[11]which the selling partners eventually agreed to.[citation needed]

In an effort to get into the entertainment business, the company had bought out producer/distributorFireworks Entertainmentin 1998,[12]and gained interest inSeven Arts Pictures,a film production company.[13]CanWest would sell its entertainment unit in 2005.[14]

In 2005, CanWest released a new website canada which was a digital media platform for its digitally transformed brands. These included many local news outlets and larger "papers" as well as other media brands. The brands were represented under "canada Network" and included (taken from the website footer):Newspapers:National Post, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, The Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader Post, The Saskatoon Star Phoenix, The Vancouver Sun, The Vancouver Province, Victoria Times Colonist, The Windsor Star, Dose, Vancouver Island Newspaper, VANNEET Newspaper;Television:Global, CH, Prime TV, Fox Sports World Canada, Lonestar, Mystery, Xtreme Sports, Deje View, mentv, Cool TV;Radio:CoolFM 99.1, 91.5 The Beat;Marketplace:working, driving.ca, connecting, celebrating, remembering, homes. The website experience was centred around news, city guides, activities and events to leverage advertising revenue. The site was designed by Cossette / Fjord out of Toronto, Canada in 2005.

In October 2005, CanWest's Canadian newspapers were sold into an IPO trust. Sold 25.8% of Canada's newspapers for C$550 million. Attached to the Canadian newspaper IPO was $850 million in long-term debt. CanWest bought back the 25.8% Newspaper Trust IPO (and debt) in November 2008, for cash considerations of $495 million.[citation needed]In April 2006, Canwest acquired four radio stations inTurkey:Super FM, Metro FM, Joy FM and Joy Turk FM from The Turkish Savings and Deposit Insurance Fund for aggregate cash consideration of US$61 million.[15]

The company was already one of the largest owners of Canadian local TV stations when Canwest andGoldman Sachsin 2007 announced they would jointly acquire Canadian producer and competing broadcasterAlliance Atlantisand its massive stable of wide-distribution specialty channels. Under the deal, Canwest took control of the broadcasting portion of AAC, although Goldman Sachs remained a major investor in those assets. Goldman retained or resold the remaining pieces of AAC, the distribution arm soon re-emerging asAlliance Films.[citation needed]

Canwest executives testified in theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissionhearings overfee-for-carriage,requesting that the commission force cable and satellite companies to pay for their signals without passing the fees on to their subscribers. In his testimony, Canwest president Leonard Asper blamed the current rules for the poor financial condition of Canada's broadcast television stations, a position which has subsequently been adopted and addressed through rule changes by the CRTC and FCC.[16]

Restructuring, creditor protection, bankruptcy, and liquidation

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Canwest's various acquisitions took a significant financial toll. As early as 2002, most of Canwest's operating income was going to pay interest on its high-interest-rate debt. By 2007, the company's bonds were downgraded to junk status.[17]By early 2009, it became clear the company's debt was not manageable during theGreat Recession,forcing Canwest into an extended set of negotiations with its lenders and a series of cost-cutting moves. The company's income statements reported net losses in 2008 and 2009, even though its operating activities were profitable (before taxes, interest, and non-operating charges: C$197 million in 2009, vs. C$428 million in 2008).[citation needed]

In May 2009, Canwest sold off four radio stations in Turkey to Spectrum Medya.[18]

On August 31, 2009, Canwest shut down its secondary systemE!(the former CH). Three of the former E!owned-and-operated stations–CHCHHamilton,CHEKVictoria,andCJNTMontreal– were sold to third parties, while a fourth,CHBCKelowna,was converted to a Global station. The remaining station,CHCARed Deer,was closed as of the same date.[19][20]

On September 24, the company announced that it would sell its 50.1% stake inTen Network HoldingsforA$680 million,[21]in order to pay down its significant debt. The sale of CanWest's Australian media operations reduced some C$582-million in debt tied to the Australian TV network, raising the total value Canwest can erase from its overall debt to more than C$1.2-billion. Before the Ten deal, Canwest held about C$3.8-billion of debt on its balance sheet. In court documents, Goldman Sachs alleges "fraudulent" and "abusive" changes to the internal operation of Canwest in the days before it filed for creditor protection. As part of the filing, the Wall Street investment bank is seeking to undo these changes, and has also claimed that CanWest's creditors should return the C$426 million they received from Canwest balance sheet in September, after CanWest sold its stake in Ten.[22]

On October 6, the company voluntarily filed for creditor protection under theCCAA,due toC$4 billion mounting debt across radio, television broadcasting and publishing assets in several countries.[23]At the same time it announced it had agreed to a recapitalization transaction with some of its lenders, which will likely require the approval of theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission(CRTC). When completed, bondholders – led byhedge fundsWest Face Capital,GoldenTree Asset Management,andBeach Point Capital Management[24]– will own a majority of shares, leaving existing shareholders, including the Asper family, with a total of 2.3% of the "new" Canwest. However, the Aspers are expected to invest a further C$15 million in the restructured entity.[25]

In January 2010, CanWest's bonds commanded about 70 cents on the dollar. CanWest's bonds at one point traded for as little as 15 cents on the dollar. Several sources say that as CanWest notes increased fivefold in price, distressed-debt funds took profits on part of their position, with Angelo Gordon among the buyers.[26]

On February 3, 2010,[27]it was reported that a group led by Golden Tree Asset Management LP complained that "it was unfairly frozen out of the auction of Canwest Limited Partnership."[citation needed]

As part of the transaction, Canwest and some of its subsidiaries, including Canwest Media Inc.,The National Post Company,and Canwest Television LP (the licensee of Global,MovieTime,DejaView,andFox Sports World Canada) filed for creditor protection under theCompanies' Creditors Arrangements Act.Canwest Limited Partnership, a subsidiary that owns the company's other newspaper assets and online properties, is negotiating separately with creditors and is expected to file for creditor protection at a later date. Specialty channels operated in partnership with other companies (such asTVtropolis,Mystery TV,MenTV,and the formerAlliance Atlantisproperties) are also not included in the present filing. Canwest shares were also suspended from trading on theTSX.

Canwest said that it was not beingliquidatedat this point, and the company insisted that the proceedings would make Canwest "a stronger industry competitor with a renewed financial outlook." Nevertheless, some analysts expected that the conglomerate would sell assets or be broken up entirely as the restructuring process continues, noting that the publishing division has a separate set of lenders.[24]As it turned out, the company would indeed be broken up.

Sale of assets to Shaw and Postmedia

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In February 2010, the company announced an agreement withShaw Communicationswhereby the latter company would buy an 80% voting interest, and 20% equity interest, in the restructured entity, pending approvals from theCanadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission(CRTC) and others. The company's newspapers were not part of the Shaw deal and were already sold separately toPostmedia Network.[28]However, the Asper family with Goldman and Catalyst made their own bid to retake Canwest with a $120 million bid in competition with the bid proposed by Shaw Communications.[29]On February 25, 2010, it was announced that Shaw Communications had won a court battle to continue their plans to purchase assets & voting shares from Canwest. After the announcement, Shaw revealed that its investment amounted to a minimum of $95-million in exchange for 20 percent of the equity and an 80 percent voting interest in the restructured company.[30]

Although Goldman, Catalyst, and the Aspers continued to work on their own bid after the Shaw agreement, Shaw announced a revised agreement, following court-ordered mediation, under which it would purchase the entirety of Canwest's broadcasting operations, including the portion owned by Goldman.[31]This deal was later modified following a second court-ordered mediation to include a settlement agreement between Shaw, creditors, and the Official Ad Hoc Committee of Shareholders, led by the Aspers, Blott Asset Management, L.L.C. and two other hedge funds.[32]This marked the first successful equity committee campaign in Canada under CCAA. A modified deal, including the Settlement Agreement, received the approval of the Ontario Superior Court on June 23, 2010,[33]theCompetition Bureauas of August 13, 2010,[34]and was given final approval from theCRTCon October 22, 2010, with Canwest delisting itself from the TSX and officially ceasing operations that same month.[35][36]Final closing would officially occur in October 2011 following the official CMI Transition Order. Meanwhile, Shaw Communications reorganized Canwest intoShaw Media.

After bankruptcy proceedings concluded under theBankruptcy and Insolvency Act,Canwest, by this point known as2737469 Canada, Inc.,finally dissolved on May 27, 2013. Asper, through his Syngus Corp. holding company, went on to establishAnthem Media Groupin 2010 and has since grew into the portfolio through the ownership ofImpact Wrestling,AXS TV,Fight NetworkandGameTV.

In April 2016, the Shaw Media assets were subsumed by Shaw's sister companyCorus Entertainment.[37][6]

Corporate governance

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Board of directors

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The last members of theboard of directorsof the company wereDerek Burney,David Drybrough, David Kerr,Leonard Asper,Izzy Asper,Lisa Pankratz,Frank McKenna,David Asper,andGail Asper.[38]Gail Asper, David Asper, and Lisa Pankratz resigned from the board, and from all other director and officer positions within Canwest and its subsidiaries, on February 10, 2010.[39]

Editorial controversies

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Since the 2000 acquisition of the major former Canadian newspaper holdings ofConrad Black'sHollinger International(nowSun-Times Media Group), includingCanwest News Service,opposition has been expressed by some journalists, union spokespersons, politicians, and pundits about Canwest's enforcement of its corporate editorial positions. A 2001 decision to run regular uniform nationaleditorialsin all metropolitan dailies (exceptNational Post), whereby localeditorial boardscould not take local positions on subjects of national editorials, ignited major national controversy and was subsequently withdrawn.

Conflict over Canwest editorial control and policy has focused in particular on three issues:

  • TheLiberal Party of Canada.Since Israel Asper's leadership of theManitoba Liberal Party,the Asper family has been identified with Liberal politics and politicians. In July 2001, Southam national affairs columnistLawrence Martinwas fired after a column of his critical of LiberalPrime MinisterJean Chrétienwas not published.Russell Mills,longtime publisher ofThe Ottawa Citizen,was fired in June 2002 after the newspaper published a series of articles exposing a financial scandal involving Prime Minister Chrétien,[40]and called on him to resign. Canwest newspapers and broadcast outlets in British Columbia were criticized for giving a "free ride" to theBC Liberalgovernment of PremierGordon Campbell,while coverage of theNew Democratic Partywas criticized as being unfairly negative.[41][42][43]However, as of 2006, at least one Asper family member (David Asper) was publicly supporting theConservatives.[44]
  • The government ofIsraeland conflict in theMiddle East.VeteranMontreal Gazettereporter Bill Marsden has said that the Aspers "do not want any criticism of Israel. We do not run in our newspaperop-edpieces that express criticism of Israel and what it is doing. "[45][46]A study released in 2006 by the Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada found that theNational Postwas 83.3 times more likely to report an Israeli child's death than a Palestinian child's death in its news articles' headlines or first paragraphs.[47]In 2008 Canwest launched a lawsuit against the Palestine Media Collective for producing a newspaper parody ofThe Vancouver Sunthat satirized this bias.[47]In 2004, theReutersnews agency protested after Canwest alterednewswirestories about theIraq warand theIsraeli–Palestinian conflict,such that Reuters felt it had inserted Canwest's ownbiasunder Reutersbylines.The changes were apparently made in accordance with a Canwest policy to label certain groups as terrorists.[48][49]Ottawa Citizen, a newspaper in the Canwest chain, made similar changes to a story byAssociated Press.[50]
  • Canwest editorial control and management itself. In December 2001, staff members atThe Montreal Gazettelaunched aGazette Newsroomweb page with an open letter, titledMedia Giant Silences Local Voices: Canadian Journalism Under Attack,that got signed by 77 Gazette journalists as of 2002 January 23,[51]opposing the national editorial policy, and the reporters among them participated in abyline strike,refusing to sign their names to their stories in the newspaper in protest. Management responded with agag order.The next year, several journalists leftThe Halifax Daily Newsover similar conflicts, and ten journalists atThe Regina Leader-Postwere reprimanded or suspended after a byline strike to protest censorship of coverage of a speech inReginabyToronto Starcolumnist and Canwest criticHaroon Siddiqui.

See also

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References

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Further reading

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  • Edge, Marc.Asper Nation: Canada's Most Dangerous Media Company(Vancouver: New Star Books 2007)ISBN978-1-55420-032-0.
  • Edge, Marc. "Thwarting Foreign Ownership Limits: Policy Activism by CanWest Global Communications in Canada and Australia."Canadian Journal of Media Studies5 (2009) pp: 70–87.
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