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

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, Canada specializing in learning-based media, originally majority-owned (and later wholly owned) by

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. 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

. 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

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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. CTVglobemedia continued to own the majority of AMG's assets, broadcasting and otherwise. BookTelevision and CourtTV Canada was relocated to the CTVglobemedia headquarters in

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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. 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.

Assets prior to dissolution

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

Television stations

Access Access may refer to: Companies and organizations * ACCESS (Australia), an Australian youth network * Access (credit card), a former credit card in the United Kingdom * Access Co., a Japanese software company * Access Healthcare, an Indian BPO se ...

(renamed to CTV 2 Alberta, all educational programming was eliminated in 2017) *

BookTelevision BookTelevision was a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Bell Media. The channel was originally established in 2001 by CHUM Limited, airing programming relating to books, literature, and various media. The network later shifted ...

(shut down in February 2021) *

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(sold to

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in 2008) * CourtTV Canada (became Investigation Discovery in 2010)

Distribution

*Distribution Access ( bought out by management in 2009)Distribution Access Unit of CTV Acquired by a Group led by Senior Management
(press release). Retrieved 2011-03-01.

Continuing education

* 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

External links

Distribution Access

Media Resource Centre

ideaCity

The Learning Annex of Canada
{{CTVglobemedia Bell Media Companies based in Edmonton Mass media in Edmonton