Quebecor Inc. is a Canadian diversified media and telecommunications company serving
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...
based in
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...
. It was spelled Quebecor in both
English and
French until May 2012, when shareholders voted to add the
acute accent
The acute accent (), ,
is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin alphabet, Latin, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabet, Greek scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accen ...
, Québecor, in French only.
The company was founded in 1965 by
Pierre Péladeau and remains run by his family. Quebecor Inc. owns
Quebecor Media
Quebecor Media Inc. is a Canadian media conglomerate that owns a wide array of media outlets, as well as an internet service provider.
History
In 1983 Quebecor purchased the Winnipeg Sun newspaper, which had been independently run. The newspa ...
and formerly owned the printing company
Quebecor World.
Assets
Telecommunications
*
Vidéotron
Vidéotron is a Canadian integrated telecommunications company founded in 1964. It's active in cable television, interactive multimedia development, video on demand, cable telephony, wireless communication and Internet access services. Owned by Qu ...
**illico TV (channel 900)
**illico Digital TV (Cable TV provider)
**Club illico (
SVOD service)
**Vrai (unscripted SVOD service)
**Helix TV app
**
Canal Indigo (
pay-per-view
Pay-per-view (PPV) is a type of pay television or webcast service that enables a viewer to pay to watch individual events via private telecast.
Events can be purchased through a multichannel television platform using their electronic program ...
and
NVOD channel; bilingual with English- and French-language services)
**
Fizz
Effervescence is the escape of gas from an aqueous solution and the foaming or fizzing that results from that release. The word effervescence is derived from the Latin verb ''fervere'' (to boil), preceded by the adverb ''ex''. It has the same l ...
(internet and cellular provider)
**Vidéotron Business
***Fibrenoire
**
MAtv (community channels)
**Helix (internet and IPTV provider)
**
Le SuperClub Vidéotron (
video rental
A video rental shop/store is a physical retail business that rents home videos such as movies, prerecorded TV shows, video game cartridges/discs and other media content. Typically, a rental shop conducts business with customers under conditi ...
chain)
***Microplay (
video game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, game controller, controller, computer keyboard, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual fe ...
retail)
*SETTE Postproduction
*
VMedia
VMedia is a Canadian telecommunications and broadcast distribution provider.
It offers VoIP telephone and home security services across Canada; DSL and cable Internet in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbi ...
(
Toronto
Toronto ( , locally pronounced or ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, most populous city in Canada. It is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. With a p ...
,
Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Canada. Located in Central Canada, Ontario is the Population of Canada by province and territory, country's most populous province. As of the 2021 Canadian census, it ...
)
*
Freedom Mobile
Freedom Mobile (formerly Wind Mobile) is a Canadian wireless telecommunications provider owned by Québecor. As of November 30, 2022 it is the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the country with 2,290,497 subscribers and a 6% market share, prim ...
Media
Media may refer to:
Communication
* Means of communication, tools and channels used to deliver information or data
** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
** Interactive media, media that is inter ...
*
Groupe TVA
Groupe TVA Inc. is a Canadian communications company with operations in broadcasting, publishing and production. It was founded as Télé-Métropole Corporation in 1960, and owned CFTM-TV, Montreal's first privately-owned francophone station. It ...
**
TVA
***
CFTM-DT Montréal
***
CFCM-DT Quebec City
***
CHLT-DT Sherbrooke
***
CHEM-DT
CHEM-DT is the TVA owned-and-operated television station in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter on Rue Principale in Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel.
Owned by the Gro ...
Trois-Rivières
***
CJPM-DT
CJPM-DT, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 46), is a TVA owned-and-operated television station licensed to Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. The station is owned by the Groupe TVA subsidiary of Quebecor Media. CJPM-DT's studios and transmitte ...
Saguenay
***
CFER-TV Rimouski
**
addikTV
**
Casa
**
Prise 2
**
Yoopa
Yoopa (stylized YOOPA) was a Canadian French language specialty channel owned by Groupe TVA, a division of Quebecor Media. Initially aimed at preschoolers, Yoopa has broadcast programming targeted toward children, aged 2–11.
A magazine for par ...
**
Témoin
Témoin (''Witness'', formerly known as Mlle and Moi et Cie) is a Canadian French-language discretionary specialty channel owned by Groupe TVA. The network primarily broadcasts crime dramas and true crime programs.
History
The channel launche ...
**
Évasion
**
Zeste
**
TVA Sports
TVA Sports is a Canadian French-language sports specialty channel owned by the Groupe TVA, a publicly traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media. The channel is a general-interest sports network, and the first major competitor to RDS, the only other F ...
**TVA+ (video on demand and
catch-up TV)
**TVA Publications (
magazine
A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...
s)
***''7 Jours''
***''TV Hebdo''
***''Recettes du Québec''
***''Échos Vedettes''
***''Cool!''
***''Clin d'œil''
***''Star Système''
***''Coup de Pouce''
***''
Canadian Living''
***Espaces
***Échos Vedettes
***DH
***''Les Idées de ma maison''
***''
Style at Home''
***''Dernière Heure''
***''Good Times Magazine''
***''La Semaine''
****''La Semaine Pratique''
****''La Semaine Santé''
****''La Semaine Extra''
****''La Semaine Téléromans''
****''La Semaine Cuisine''
***''Pool Pro''
***Messageries Dynamiques (distribution)
**MELS Studios (film and television production services)
**Incendo Media
**
TVA Films (
theatrical
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communic ...
film
A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ...
and
home video
Home video is recorded media sold or Video rental shop, rented for home viewing. The term originates from the VHS and Betamax era, when the predominant medium was videotapes, but has carried over to optical disc formats such as DVD and Blu-ray. ...
distribution)
**TVA Nouvelles (news source)
***
Le Canal Nouvelles (LCN)
*Quebecor Content (television content production)
* (
Montréal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...
newspaper)
*''
Le Journal de Québec
''Le Journal de Québec'' is a French-language daily newspaper in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Printed in tabloid format, it has the highest circulation for a Quebec City newspaper, with its closest competitor being '' Le Soleil''.
It was foun ...
'' (
Quebec City
Quebec City is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Census Metropolitan Area (including surrounding communities) had a populati ...
newspaper)
* (
free newspaper
Free newspapers are distributed Gratis versus libre, free of charge, often in central places in cities and towns, on public transport, with other newspapers, or separately door-to-door. The revenues of such newspapers are based on advertising. T ...
)
*J5 mobile app
*QUB Radio (online radio and podcast platform)
*QUB Musique (music streaming platform)
*NumériQ
**Billie
**En 5 minutes
**Le Sac de chips
**Pèse sur Start
**Porte-monnaie
**Silo 57
**TABLOÏD
**Le Guide de l’auto
*Groupe Livre Québecor Média (
book
A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, ...
publishing
Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...
)
**Groupe Sogides (general literature)
***Groupe Homme
****Les Éditions de l'Homme
****Le Jour Éditeur
****Les Éditions La Griffe
****Les Éditions Petit Homme
****Juniper Publishing (English-language publishing)
***Groupe Charron Éditeur
****Éditions La Semaine
****Recto-Verso Éditeur
***Groupe Ville-Marie Littérature
****Éditions VLB
****Éditions de l'Hexagone
****Les Éditions du Journal
****Éditions TYPO
****Les Éditions de La Bagnole
***Groupe Librex
****Éditions Libre Expression
****Éditions Stanké
****Les Éditions Publistar
****Éditions Trécarré
****Éditions Logiques
**Les Éditions CEC (school books)
**Messageries ADP (distribution)
*Quebecor Advertising Sales & Marketing
*Quebecor Out of Home
*Mirabel Printing (newspaper printing)
*Agence QMI (press agency)
Sports and entertainment
*
Videotron Centre
Vidéotron Centre ( French: ''Centre Vidéotron'') is an indoor arena in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The 18,259-seat arena replaced Colisée Pepsi as Quebec City's primary venue for indoor events. The arena is primarily used for ice hockey, ser ...
(
indoor arena
An arena is a large enclosed venue, often circular or oval-shaped, designed to showcase theatre, Music, musical performances or Sport, sporting events. It comprises a large open space surrounded on most or all sides by tiered seating for specta ...
)
*
Les Disques Musicor (
record label
"Big Three" music labels
A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of Sound recording and reproduction, music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a Music publisher, ...
)
*
Audiogram
An audiogram is a graph that shows the audible threshold for standardized frequencies as measured by an audiometer. The Y axis represents intensity measured in decibels (dB) and the X axis represents frequency measured in hertz (Hz). The thresho ...
(
record label
"Big Three" music labels
A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of Sound recording and reproduction, music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a Music publisher, ...
)
**Éditorial Avenue (
music publishing
A music publisher is a type of publisher that specializes in distributing music. Music publishers originally published sheet music. When copyright became legally protected, music publishers began to play a role in the management of the intellectua ...
)
*Gestev (events management)
*
Blainville-Boisbriand Armada
The Blainville-Boisbriand Armada is a Canadian junior ice hockey team of the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League. The team is based in Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada, and plays its home games at the Centre d'Excellence Sports Rousseau.
Histor ...
*
Quebec Remparts
The Quebec Remparts () are a Canadian junior ice hockey based in Quebec City, Quebec. The team plays in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), and is named after the Ramparts of Quebec City (). There have been two franchises name ...
Sponsorship
In 2011, Quebecor launched
TVA Sports
TVA Sports is a Canadian French-language sports specialty channel owned by the Groupe TVA, a publicly traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media. The channel is a general-interest sports network, and the first major competitor to RDS, the only other F ...
, a French-language sports television network.
The same year, it bought the management and naming rights of the
Videotron Centre
Vidéotron Centre ( French: ''Centre Vidéotron'') is an indoor arena in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The 18,259-seat arena replaced Colisée Pepsi as Quebec City's primary venue for indoor events. The arena is primarily used for ice hockey, ser ...
, an indoor arena in Quebec City that opened in 2015.
In 2014, the company purchased the
Quebec Remparts
The Quebec Remparts () are a Canadian junior ice hockey based in Quebec City, Quebec. The team plays in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), and is named after the Ramparts of Quebec City (). There have been two franchises name ...
of the
QMJHL
The Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL; , LHJMQ), formerly the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues that constitute the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). The league includes teams in Quebec ...
.
In 2015, Quebecor submitted an application for an
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...
expansion franchise in Quebec City. The application has since passed two phases of league scrutiny, with a final decision expected in early 2016. A year later, the league "deferred" the bid.
Corporate governance
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Brian Mulroney
Martin Brian Mulroney (March 20, 1939 – February 29, 2024) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993.
Born in the eastern Quebec city of Baie-Comeau, Mulroney studi ...
served as chair of the board before his death in February 2024.
Current members of the
board of directors
A board of directors is a governing body that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency.
The powers, duties, and responsibilities of a board of directors are determined by government regulatio ...
of Quebecor Inc. are:
Quebecor , Board of Directors
Françoise Bertrand, Jean La Couture, Sylvie Lalande, Pierre Laurin, A. Michel Lavigne, Geneviève Marcon, and Normand Provost.
See also
* Media ownership in Canada
* Charles-Albert Poissant
References
External links
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Assets as of 2010
{{Authority control
Companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
Conglomerate companies of Canada
Mass media companies established in 1965
1965 establishments in Quebec
Quebec sovereigntist media