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Cell phones in use (M. Spencer Green)
Cell phones in use (M. Spencer Green)

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The big players in Canada's media world Add to ...

A worker assembles a Bell Canada billboard

BCE

CTV (broadcasting, specialty TV channels such as TSN, BNN, Bravo and Space)

Globe and Mail (15 %)

Satellite television

Cellphones; home phones

Internet service and sites

<p>Jim Shaw</p>

SHAW

Cable

Satellite television

Former CanWest Global television assets, including specialty channels History Television, Showcase and Slice

Home phones and Internet service

- Corus Entertainment (controlled by Shaw family; includes radio and specialty TV)

A Rogers Communications store in Ottawa

ROGERS

Specialty television, such as Sportsnet, OMNI, and the Shopping Channel

Cable

Cellphones; home phones

Internet service

Radio stations; magazines; video stores

Quebecor

QUEBECOR

Broadcasting (TVA network and specialty channels)

Vidéotron cable, Internet, cellphone

Magazines, newspapers

Video stores

Telus has a history of rewarding shareholders with dividend growth, according to Yield Hog panelist Tony Demarin of BCV Asset Management.

TELUS

Satellite television; Internet television

Home phones

Cellphones

Internet service



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