CanWest Global Communications
Type	Public (TSX: CGS TSX: CGS.A NYSE: CWG)
Founded	(1974)
Headquarters	Winnipeg, Manitoba
Key people	Leonard Asper - President & CEO
Industry	Communications Services
Products	Radio Publishing Broadcasting Cable
Revenue	$2.61 billion CAN
Operating income	-86.60 million CAN
Employees	11,072 (2004)
Website	www.canwestglobal.com

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Operations

See also: List of assets owned by CanWest Global Communications

CanWest MediaWorks is the company's Canadian operating unit. It consists of: The following is a list of assets owned by CanWest Global Communications. ...

• Global Television Network, a Canadian television network which reaches over 94% of the English-speaking population of Canada;
• CH, a second system of stations based in Hamilton, Ontario; Victoria and Kelowna, British Columbia; Montreal, Quebec; and Red Deer, Alberta (plus, as of February 27, 2006, a non-CanWest-owned affiliate in Kamloops, British Columbia). Despite this small number, through repeaters and cable television it reaches the majority of major Canadian markets;
• specialty services including TVtropolis and various digital services;
• two Canadian radio stations, both of which are pending sale to Corus Entertainment. CanWest also holds a licence for an as-yet-unlaunched station in Halifax, Nova Scotia, CHAL-FM (105.1). In late 2006, CanWest's deadline to implement this licence was extended to November 26, 2007, although the company had previously stated it would not pursue the licence.^[1][2]
• the former Southam newspaper chain, which includes the number-two national newspaper National Post, the broadsheet daily newspapers in most major markets, and several other smaller newspapers. CanWest is Canada's largest newspaper publisher;
• production, distribution, and Internet assets such as CanWest Entertainment and canada.com, one of Canada's largest Internet portals
• Mobile Video Productions, providing production trucks for use throughout North America

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In the United Kingdom, CanWest owns two radio stations branded Original 106. It has also once held interests in Ulster Television, the ITV1 franchise in Northern Ireland, and in the Republic of Ireland's TV3. Original 106fm is a radio station broadcasting to the Solent region of southern England, centred on the towns and cities of Portsmouth, Southampton and Bournemouth. ... For other uses of the UTV acronym see UTV (disambiguation) Ulster Television plc (UTV) is a media company based in Northern Ireland. ... ITV1 is the name, in England, Wales and the Scottish borders, for a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel, broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ... Anthem: UK: God Save the Queen Regional: (de facto) Londonderry Air Capital Belfast Largest city Belfast Official languages English (de facto), Irish, Ulster Scots 3, BSL, NISL, ISL Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Ian Paisley  - Deputy First Minister... TV3 Ireland is the sole commercial television channel in the Republic of Ireland. ...

On January 10, 2007, it was announced that Alliance Atlantis would be acquired by a consortium of Canwest Global and Goldman Sachs, with Canwest expected to take control of the broadcasting portion of the company, and Goldman Sachs to keep or spin off the Entertainment and Production, and Motion Picture LP divisions. This would include the stake in the lucrative CSI franchise. January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... Alliance Atlantis Alliance Atlantis is a Toronto-based media company. ... Goldman Sachs offices at the Fraumünsterplatz in Zürich (the light-colored building on the left) The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ... CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a popular Alliance Atlantis/CBS police procedural television series, running since October 2000, about a team of forensic scientists. ...

CanWest also runs the annual CanSpell National Spelling Bee, started in 2005. The CanWest CanSpell National Spelling Bee is a spelling bee held annually in Canada since 2005. ...

Corporate governance

Board of directors

Current members of the board of directors of the company are: David Drybrough, Leonard Asper, David Asper, Gail Asper, Lloyd Barber, Derek Burney, Robert Daniels, Paul Godfrey, Frank King, and Lisa Pankratz. In relation to a company, a director is an officer of the company charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. ... David Drybrough was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ... Leonard Asper (born May 31, 1964, in Winnipeg, Manitoba), is a Canadian businessman. ... David Asper is a Canadian businessman. ... Gail Asper was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1960. ... Lloyd Barber, C.C., S.O.M., Ph. ... Derek Hudson Burney is a Canadian businessman and former diplomat and political strategist. ... Robert Daniels (born August 30, 1968 in Miami, FL), is a professional boxer in the Cruiserweight (190lb) division. ... Paul Victor Godfrey (born 1939 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian politician and businessman. ...

Former members of the board of directors of the company include: Izzy Asper and Frank McKenna. Israel Harold Izzy Asper, OC , OM , QC , LL.M , Ph. ... The Honourable Francis Joseph Frank McKenna, PC, ONB (born January 19, 1948, in Apohaqui, New Brunswick, Canada) is a Canadian politician and diplomat. ...

Concentration of power

CanWest is often cited as an example of how the ownership of Canadian media has become concentrated in the hands of a few individuals and large corporations. CanWest founder Izzy Asper was known as a strong supporter of both Canada's Liberal Party and Israel's right-wing Likud party, and of many laissez-faire policies in both countries. Observers have suggested that Asper's political views have had a significant impact on news coverage at CanWest media outlets. For example, in 2002, Ottawa Citizen publisher Russell Mills was fired by CanWest after the paper published a series of articles exposing a financial scandal involving then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Israel Harold Izzy Asper, OC , OM , QC , LL.M , Ph. ... The Liberal Party of Canada (French: ), colloquially known as the Grits (originally Clear Grits), is a Canadian federal political party. ... Likud (Hebrew: ליכוד, literally means consolidation) is a centre-right political party in Israel. ... Laissez-faire is short for laissez faire, laissez passer, a French phrase meaning to let things alone, let them pass. First used by the eighteenth century Physiocrats as an injunction against government interference with trade, it is now used as a synonym for strict free market economics. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Russell Mills (born July 14, 1944, in St. ... Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien, usually known as Jean Chrétien, PC, QC, BA, BCL, LLD (h. ...

CanWest's power in the marketplace is reflected in a new contract that freelance contributors must sign. Until recently, standard industry practise was that freelancers sold the rights for one time use and only in Canada. CanWest now requires that freelancers sign over all rights "throughout the universe in perpetuity".

In response, the company's supporters often cite the alleged power of the federal government over both the broadcast regulator, the CRTC, and another major media conglomerate, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (although both entities are intended to be at arms-length from the government and from each other). The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC, in French Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes) was established in 1968 by the Canadian Parliament to replace the Board of Broadcast Governors. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ...

Editorial controversies

Since the 2000 acquisition of the major former Canadian newspaper holdings of Conrad Black's Hollinger International (now Sun-Times Media Group), including CanWest 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 national editorials in all metropolitan dailies (except National Post), whereby local editorial boards could not take local positions on subjects of national editorials, ignited major national controversy and was subsequently withdrawn. 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August 1944, in Montreal, Quebec), is a prominent and controversial British biographer, financier and former newspaper magnate. ... Hollinger International is the holding company of a Chicago based newspaper group. ... Sun-Times Media Group (until recently Hollinger International) NYSE: SVN is the holding company of a Chicago based newspaper group. ... CanWest News Service is a Canadian newspaper chain owned by CanWest. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up editorial, op-ed in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The National Post is a major Canadian English-language national newspaper based in Don Mills, Ontario, a district of Toronto. ... The editorial board is a group of people, usually at a print publication, who dictate the tone and direction the publications editorials will take. ...

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

• The Liberal Party of Canada. Since Israel Asper's leadership of the Manitoba Liberal Party, the Asper family has been identified with Liberal politics and politicians. In July 2001, Southam national affairs columnist Lawrence Martin, was fired after a column of his critical of Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien was not published. Russell Mills, longtime publisher of The Ottawa Citizen, was fired in June 2002 after the newspaper called on Chrétien to resign. However, as of 2006, at least one Asper family member (David Asper) is now publicly supporting the Conservatives. [1]
• The government of Israel and conflict in the Middle East. Veteran Montreal Gazette reporter Bill Marsden has said that the Aspers "do not want any criticism of Israel. We do not run in our newspaper op-ed pieces that express criticism of Israel and what it is doing." [2] In 2004, the Reuters news agency protested after CanWest altered newswire stories about the Iraq war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, such that Reuters felt it had inserted CanWest's own bias under Reuters bylines. The changes were apparently made in accordance with a CanWest policy to label certain groups as terrorists. [3]
• CanWest editorial control and management itself. In December 2001, 77 staff at The Montreal Gazette signed a letter and launched a web page [4] opposing the national editorial policy, and the reporters among them participated in a byline strike, refusing to sign their names to their stories in the newspaper in protest. Management responded with a gag order. The next year, several journalists left The Halifax Daily News over similar conflicts, and ten journalists at The Regina Leader-Post were reprimanded or suspended after a byline strike to protest censorship of coverage of a speech in Regina by Toronto Star columnist and CanWest critic Haroon Siddiqui.

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Footnotes

The Globe and Mail is a large English language national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada, and printed in seven cities across Canada. ...

External links

• Official Site
• Who Owns What: CanWest Global Communications (Columbia Journalism Review)
• CanWest Watch (AdBusters)
• Focus on CanWest (TNG Canada/CWA)
• CanWest Global International Holdings
• canada.com Canada's largest internet portal
• CRTC chart of CanWest Global Communications' assets (PDF)