CTV Inc. is Canada's pre-eminent broadcast communications company with conventional television operations across Canada and a leading position in the specialty television sector.
CTV owns many of Canada's best-known and popular brands, with broadcasting signals covering 99 per cent of English-speaking Canadian households. Through CTV's owned-and-operated television stations across the country and affiliation agreements with three stations, CTV offers a wide range of quality news, sports, information and entertainment programming. CTV Inc. also owns ASN, a satellite television service in the Maritimes and Newfoundland and Labrador.
CTV has one of Canada's strongest stables of specialty channels. These include interests in: CTV Newsnet, Canada’s 24-hour headline news channel; Report on Business Television, Canada’s all-business news network; talktv, an all-talk specialty channel; The Comedy Network, Canada's first 24-hour network dedicated to comedy; TSN, the highest-rated Canadian specialty channel; RDS, the world's first 24-hour French-language all-sports channel; the award-winning Discovery Channel; and the Outdoor Life Network, Canada's adventure destination for outdoor enthusiasts. A minority interest in Viewer's Choice Canada is also held. CTV owns interests in and operates five digital specialty channels: CTV Travel, Animal Planet, Discovery Civilization, ESPN Classic Canada and the NHL Network.
CTV also owns interests in production houses and music publishers, including Dome Productions, Exploration Production Inc., Exploration Distribution Inc., Agincourt Productions Inc. and CTV Music.
CTV delivers its award-winning content on-line through companion Web sites, which include CTV.ca, TSN.ca, RDS.ca, robtv.com and EXN.ca.
CTV Inc. is owned by Bell Globemedia, Canada's premier multi-media company, which also owns The Globe and Mail, Canada's National Newspaper.