Moffat Communications

Moffat Communications was a Canadian cable and broadcasting company. Privately owned by the Moffat family, the company was based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The company owned the following media businesses in Canada and the U.S.A.:

Videon Cable-TV
CKY-TV
58 CKY AM radio
92 CITI-FM FM radio
WTN (Women's Television Network)
The Winnipeg Jets NHL hockey team.
Florida Satellite Network, a cable system in Pasco County, Florida
Kingwood Cable and Lakewood Cable near Houston, Texas
Moffat also built a string of radio stations across Western Canada.

In the 1990s Moffat divested itself of radio stations CKY and CITI to Rogers Communications. In 2001 the company was sold to Shaw Communications, which resold CKY-TV to Bell Globemedia, and WTN to Corus Entertainment.

Shaw Communications

Corporate directors	Jim Dinning Ron Joyce Charles Keating Don Mazankowski Jim Shaw JR Shaw

Assets	CJBN-TV Kenora Corus Entertainment (37%)¹ Shaw Broadcast Services Shaw Direct Shomi³ Shaw Multicultural Channel² Shaw PPV Shaw TV² Freedom Mobile

Defunct/historical brands and predecessors	Moffat Communications MSNBC Canada Videon Cablesystems Western International Communications Shaw Media

¹Non-voting interest; additionally the voting shares of both Shaw and Corus are controlled by the Shaw family. • ²Community channels owned by Shaw Cablesystems. • ³Joint venture with Rogers Communications. Many of the assets listed above are only partially owned by Shaw. Refer to full asset list for detailed information.

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