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| foundation = Toronto, Ontario (1999) | location = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | key_people = Doug Murphy President / CEO Heather Shaw Executive Chair | industry = Media, broadcasting | revenue = $833 million CAD (2014) | num_employees = 2,086 (2008) | homepage = (www.corusent.com ) }} Corus Entertainment is a Canadian media and broadcasting company. Formed in 1999 as a spin-off from Shaw Communications, it is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and has prominent holdings in the radio, publishing, and television industries. Corus Entertainment's voting majority is held by the company's founder JR Shaw and his family. Corus has a large presence in Canadian specialty television, most prominently within the children's television market through its ownership of networks such as the Canadian YTV and Teletoon/Télétoon brands as well as localized versions of the United States channels Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel/Disney La Chaîne, Disney Junior, and Disney XD along with the animation studio Nelvana and book publisher Kids Can Press. Corus is also a major owner of radio stations in Canada, operating 39 stations across numerous markets. ==History== Corus launched a Canadian version of Nickelodeon on November 2, 2009, replacing Discovery Kids. On April 30, 2010, it was announced that all Corus Québec stations, with the exception of CKRS, would be sold to Cogeco for $80 million, pending CRTC approval.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Canada's Corus Entertainment sells all its stations in Quebec, including Montreal )〕 Corus's reason for the sale is that their Quebec radio stations are less profitable than their stations in other parts of Canada.〔St. Petersburg Times, "Canada Report" column, May 9, 2010.〕 However, Cogeco must either apply with the CRTC for an exemption from the common ownership policy, or sell off some of these (or their own) stations as they will be over the maximum allowable number of stations in Montreal, Quebec City, and Sherbrooke. On June 25, it was reported that Corus had agreed to sell CKRS to Radio Saguenay, a local business group.〔(Corus sells Saguenay station to local buyers ), The Wire Report, 25 June 2010〕 The sale of the Corus Québec stations was approved by the CRTC on December 17, 2010, on the condition that Cogeco-owned CJEC-FM and Corus-owned CFEL-FM and CKOY-FM be sold to another party by December 2011.〔(Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2010-942: "Transfer of effective control of various commercial radio programming undertakings from Corus Entertainment Inc. to Cogeco inc.", issued December 17, 2010. )〕 On January 13, 2011, competing broadcaster Astral Media announced that they would seek legal action to stop the sale of these stations to Cogeco, citing the fact that it would own more stations than Astral in the Montreal market, making the competition unfair.〔(Canadian Press, via Yahoo: "Cogeco says new radio stations to provide growth and expects deal to go through", January 13, 2011. )〕 Under a license from Disney/ABC Television Group for ABC Family programming, Corus launched ABC Spark on with Shaw Media owning 49%.〔(Corus' ABC Spark to Launch March 26th ), ''Broadcaster Magazine'', 2012-01-05〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/corus-eyes-aggressive-tv-expansion-in-quebec/article9296228/ )〕 In March 2013, as part of Bell Media's proposed acquisition of Astral Media, Corus reached a tentative deal to acquire Astral's stakes in Historia, Séries+, and the Teletoon networks, along with several radio stations, for $400.6 million. This aspect of the deal, intended to quell concerns from the CRTC regarding Bell's total market share after the merger, was approved by the Competition Bureau on March 18, 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/bce-to-sell-assets-to-corus-as-part-of-astral-deal/article9272784/?cmpid=rss1 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/competition-bureau-clears-corus-acquisition-of-astral-assets/article9886090/?cmpid=rss1 )〕 In an unrelated deal, Corus also announced that it would acquire Shaw Media's stakes in ABC Spark, Historia, and Séries+ in exchange for cash and its minority stake in Food Network Canada.〔 Corus has indicated that as a whole, these acquisitions are intended to expand its operations in the competitive Quebec market. Corus also plans to open a new office in Montreal following the acquisitions.〔 On September 1, 2013, Corus reorganized into six divisions, Corus Radio, Corus Kids, Corus Women and Family, Corus Content Distribution and Pay TV, Corus Airtime Sales and Corus Media. Corus Kids would have two programming groups, kids specialty TV services which holds YTV, Treehouse, Nick Canada, Nelvana Studio and Nelvana Enterprises, and Teletoon Canada group holding Teletoon, Teletoon Retro, and Cartoon Network Canada. Corus Media holds its French language channels. On April 16, 2015, Corus Entertainment announced that it had reached an agreement with the Disney–ABC Television Group to acquire long-term, Canadian multi-platform rights to Disney Channel's programming library. Alongside the licensing deal, Corus announced that it would officially launch a Canadian version of Disney Channel on September 1, 2015. A French version, Disney La Chaîne, was also launched. On November 20, 2015, Corus announced that it would exit the premium television industry to focus on its national specialty services. As a result, Corus will sell its rights to operate a premium television service in western Canada to Bell Media for $211 million, resulting in the planned discontinuation of Movie Central in 2016, the expansion of The Movie Network into a national service, and Bell becoming the sole rightsholder of HBO programming in Canada. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Corus Entertainment」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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