Access Media Group

Media Company

This article is about the Canadian media company. For the American company, see AMGTV.

Learning and Skills Television of Alberta Ltd.

Trade name

| Access Media Group

|

Company type| Broadcasting/Multimedia
Industry| Media
Founded| Edmonton, Alberta (1994)
Defunct| 2008 (independent)
April 16, 2020 (dissolved)
Fate| Subsumed into Bell Media
Successor| Bell Media Television
Headquarters| Edmonton, Alberta,

Canada

Products| Media, Broadcasting
Owner| BCE, Inc.
Parent| Bell Media

Access Media Group, legally Learning and Skills Television of Alberta Ltd., which also served as the corporate brand until 2005, was a privately held Canadian broadcasting and multimedia group based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada specializing in learning-based media, originally majority-owned (and later wholly owned) by CHUM Limited. It owned four television channels, a multimedia distribution company, and a school for continuing education and personal growth. AMG's headquarters are situated at Enterprise Square in Edmonton, Alberta.

At the time of the company's founding in 1994, it was 60% owned by CHUM Limited. On February 15, 2005, CHUM purchased the remainder of the company. The company had been owned by CTVglobemedia (later became as Bell Media since June 22, 2007 as a result of its takeover of CHUM; and AMG was wound up into CTV Limited (the renamed CHUM Limited) in 2008.[1] CTVglobemedia continued to own the majority of AMG's assets, broadcasting and otherwise.

BookTelevision and CourtTV Canada was relocated to the CTVglobemedia headquarters in Toronto, Ontario [citation needed] while Access TV was relocated to CFRN-TV's studios.

CTVglobemedia was acquired by Bell Canada in 2011 resulting in the company renamed into Bell Media.[2] AMG continued to exist within Bell Media's corporate structures until its dissolution on April 16, 2020, when Bell Media reorganized its subsidiaries into Bell Media Television.[3]

## Assets prior to dissolution

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All assets remain under the ownership of CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media) unless otherwise noted.

### Television stations

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* Access (renamed to CTV 2 Alberta, all educational programming was eliminated in 2017)
* BookTelevision (shut down in February 2021)
* Canadian Learning Television (sold to Corus Entertainment in 2008, renamed to Oprah Winfrey Network and shut down in 2024)
* CourtTV Canada (became Investigation Discovery in 2010, relaunched as Oxygen in 2025)

### Distribution

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* Distribution Access (bought out by management in 2009)[4]

### Continuing education

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* The Learning Annex of Canada (70%) (website now redirects to TLA's corporate site, implying that TLAC may now be wholly owned by the U.S. company)
* TLAC Toronto Printing which is a growing Canadian Printing company for businesses and self publishers is not a division of Access Media.
* ideaCity, an annual conference of forward-thinkers held in Toronto (now directly managed by Moses Znaimer)

## References

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1. ^ Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-141, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, 14 July 2008
2. ^ "Bell to acquire 100% of Canada's No.1 media company CTV". CNW Group. September 10, 2010. Archived from the original on September 13, 2010. Retrieved September 10, 2010.
3. ^ "BCE Bell Media. Discretionary Services" (PDF). crtc.gc.ca. February 23, 2021. Retrieved April 9, 2023.
4. ^ Distribution Access Unit of CTV Acquired by a Group led by Senior Management[usurped] (press release). Retrieved 2011-03-01.

## External links

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* Distribution Access[usurped]
* Media Resource Centre
* ideaCity
* The Learning Annex of Canada

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Bell Media (and other broadcasting properties of BCE Inc.)

Terrestrial TV
and free streaming|

| CTV (O&O)|

Stations
CIVT-DT Vancouver
CFCN-DT Calgary
CFRN-DT Edmonton
CFQC-DT Saskatoon
CKCK-DT Regina
CICC-DT Yorkton
CIPA-DT Prince Albert
CKY-DT Winnipeg
CTV Northern Ontario

CHBX-TV Sault Ste. Marie
CICI-TV Greater Sudbury
CITO-TV Timmins
CKNY-DT North Bay
CKCO-DT Kitchener
CFTO-DT Toronto
CJOH-DT Ottawa
CFCF-DT Montreal
CTV Atlantic

CKLT-DT Saint John
CKCW-DT Moncton
CJCH-DT Halifax
CJCB-DT Sydney

|

CTV 2 (O&O)|

Stations
CIVI-DT Victoria
CFTK-TV Terrace
CJDC-TV Dawson Creek
CHWI-DT Windsor
CFPL-DT London
CKVR-DT Barrie
CHRO-TV Ottawa

Noovo (O&O)|

Stations
CFJP-DT Montreal
CFKS-DT Sherbrooke
CFKM-DT Trois-Rivières
CFAP-DT Quebec City
CFRS-DT Saguenay

Subscription TV
and streaming|

| CTV 2|

* CTV 2 Alberta
* CTV 2 Atlantic

|

CTV-branded
(excluding news)|

* CTV Comedy Channel
* CTV Drama Channel
* CTV Life Channel
* CTV Nature Channel
* CTV Sci-Fi Channel
* CTV Speed Channel
* CTV Wild Channel

CTV News|

* BNN Bloomberg
* CP24
* CTV News Channel

Sports|

* RDS
* RDS2
* RDS Info
* TSN
* TSN2

Premium and PPV|

* Cinépop
* Crave
* Movies \+ HBO
* Starz
* Super Écran
* Vu!1
* Venus1

Other English-language|

* E!
* Much
* Oxygen
* TV12
* USA Network

Other French-language|

* Canal D
* Canal Vie
* Investigation
* Z

iHeartRadio Canada|

| AM|

* CFAX
* CFGO
* CFRA
* CFRB
* CHUM
* CJAD
* CKGM
* CKHJ
* CKLW

|

FM|

* CFBR-FM
* CFBT-FM
* CFCA-FM
* CFIX-FM
* CFMG-FM
* CFWM-FM
* CFXY-FM
* CHBD-FM
* CHBE-FM
* CHEY-FM
* CHIK-FM
* CHOM-FM
* CHQM-FM
* CHUM-FM
* CHVR-FM
* CIBK-FM
* CIBX-FM
* CICS-FM
* CICX-FM
* CICZ-FM
* CIDR-FM
* CIGB-FM
* CIMF-FM
* CIMO-FM
* CIMX-FM
* CIOO-FM
* CIQM-FM
* CITE-FM
* CITE-FM-1
* CITF-FM
* CJAB-FM
* CJAY-FM
* CJBX-FM
* CJCH-FM
* CJFM-FM
* CJMJ-FM
* CJMM-FM
* CJMV-FM
* CKFM-FM
* CKKL-FM
* CKKW-FM
* CKMF-FM
* CKMM-FM
* CKTF-FM
* CKX-FM
* CKXA-FM

Networks|

* Boom
* Bounce
* Énergie
* iHeartRadio (CA licence)
* Move
* Pure Country
* Rouge FM
* TSN Radio
* Virgin Radio (CA licence)

Broadcasting studios|

* Vancouver
* Toronto
* 9 Channel Nine Court
* 299 Queen Street West
* 250 Richmond Street West

Other BMI assets|

* Astral Out-of-Home
* CTV Specialty Television

Predecessors|

* Telegram Corporation
* Baton Broadcasting
* Mid-Canada Communications
* Electrohome
* Craig Media
* CHUM Limited
* Access Media Group
* CTVglobemedia
* Astral Media

Former/defunct
properties|

* Baton Broadcast System
* WTSN
* Viewers Choice
* GolTV
* Leafs Nation Network
* NHL Network
* M3
* Comedy Gold
* Bravo
* Discovery
* ID
* Animal Planet
* Discovery Velocity
* Discovery Science
* BookTelevision
* Fashion Television
* Vrak
* ESPN Classic
* MTV
* MTV2
* Bob FM
* EZ Rock

Notes|

1Owned (or part-owned) by BCE separately from its ownership of Bell Media.
2Community channels operated as part of Bell Fibe TV and Bell Aliant Fibe TV; also not part of Bell Media.

* BCE Inc.
* Associated foundations: BravoFACT
* MuchFACT
* Some of the assets listed above are only partially owned by Bell Media. Refer to full asset list for detailed information.

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