Astral Media
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Image:Astral media.jpgAstral Media Inc. Template:Tsx is a Canadian media corporation. It owns several radio stations in Quebec and Atlantic Canada, as well as several television stations that are available across Canada, including The Movie Network, Viewer's Choice, The Family Channel and Teletoon.
Astral Media's roots lie with Angreen Photo, a Canadian company founded in 1961. It was created when Montreal's Greenberg brothers founded it to operate the photography concession in Miracle Mart, a department store chain. Its acquisition in 1968 of a photographic store eventually grew into Astral Photo's 125 store-chain. The store grew quickly into motion picture processing after acquiring the Pathé-Humphries motion picture lab. The name was changed to Bellevue Pathé and later to AstralTech.
Astral in its present day form was constituted in 1973 under the name Astral Bellevue Pathé Limited. Astral eventually undertook videocassette duplication and video wholesaling. Astral also produced or executive produced over 100 feature films and television programs and television miniseries. In 1983, the Greenberg's acquired complete control of two pay-per-view networks. Astral expanded its television operations by launching new networks. Astral ceased to be directly involved in film and program production in 1983.
In February 2000, Astral Communications became Astral Media. For a discussion of The Movie Network/Movie Central duopoly, see The Movie Network.
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Corporate governance
Current members of the board of directors of Astral Media are: Normand Beauchamp, Austin Beutel, Paul Bronfman, André Bureau (chairman), Jack Cockwell, George Cohon, Paul Godfrey, Stephen Greenberg, Ian Greenberg, Sidney Greenberg, Sidney Horn, and Timothy Price.
Radio stations in Quebec
Énergie network
RockDétente network
BOOM-FM network
- CFEI-FM 106.5, Saint-Hyacinthe
- CFZZ-FM 104.1, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
- CHRD-FM 105.3, Drummondville
- CFVM-FM 99.9, Amqui
Radio stations in Atlantic Canada
- CIKX-FM 93.5, Grand Falls, New Brunswick
- CKTY-FM 99.5, Truro, Nova Scotia
- CKTO-FM 100.9, Truro, Nova Scotia
- CJCJ-FM 104.1, Woodstock, New Brunswick
- CFXY-FM 105.3, Fredericton, New Brunswick
- CIBX-FM 106.9, Fredericton, New Brunswick
- CKHJ 1260, Fredericton, New Brunswick
- CKBC 1360, Bathurst, New Brunswick
Satellite radio
Astral also programs two channels for broadcast on Sirius Canada. Rock Velours, based on the RockDétente format, airs on Sirius channel 192, and Énergie2, based on the Énergie format, airs on Sirius channel 193.
In addition, Astral partnered with CHUM Limited in an application for a terrestrial digital subscription service which was also licensed by the CRTC at the same time as the satellite radio services. That service has not launched as of January, 2006; it is not currently known if it ever will.