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CUC Broadcasting was a Canadian media company. Primarily a cable television distributor which operated under the name Trillium Cable, CUC was also a minority investor in other smaller cable companies, including Northern Cable and UMG Cable. Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical... Northern Cable was a Canadian cable television provider, which operated from the early 1970s to 1998. ...


CUC also had some broadcast holdings, most notably CKLW and CKEZ in Windsor and a 34 per cent share in YTV. CKLW is a 50,000 watt AM radio station broadcasting at 800 kHz located in Windsor, Ontario. ... CIDR is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 93. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = City of Windsor, Ontario, Canadas Location. ... YTV is a TLA that may stand for: Finnish for the term Helsinki Metropolitan Area. ...


The company was originally launched by Geoffrey Conway. Notable members of the board of directors included Jerry Grafstein, Lawrence Tanenbaum and F. Baxter Ricard. Jerahmiel S. (Jerry) Grafstein (born January 2, 1935) is a Canadian political figure and lawyer. ... F. Baxter Ricard (1905 – 1993) was a pioneering Canadian media proprietor. ...


CUC was acquired by Shaw Cable in 1995. The merger made Shaw Canada's second largest cable company. Shaw is Canadas second largest cable television operator, after Rogers Communications. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...



 
 

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