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New programming, new tech, tops Asper’s to-do list with Fight Net, new CEO tells Cartt.ca

TORONTO – It’s a far smaller media company Leonard Asper is running this time around.The former CEO of Canwest Global Communications has emerged from the dismantling and sale of that giant media company as an investor and CEO of category two digital specialty channel The Fight Network. Existing shareholders Loudon Owen and Ed Nordholm, who have been searching for investors for some time, are staying in as co-owners.When interviewed by Cartt.ca on Wednesday, Asper didn’t want to give away his strategies for the channel – and it’s something he no longer has to divulge publicly anyway. “It’s a private company,...