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The Cartt.ca Podcast: “It’s $10 billion or zero,” says Stingray CEO Eric Boyko


NO CANADIAN MEDIA company has grown over the past 12 years the way Montreal’s Stingray Group has.Getting its start in 2007 when its founder purchased a South Carolina-based karaoke business, Stingray has grown in ways that co-founder and current CEO Eric Boyko couldn’t have fathomed in the beginning. With its $506 million purchase of Newcap Radio last year, Stingray is now one of the largest radio station owners in Canada – while also owning 80% of the world’s karaoke market (who knew!?).Known primarily in Canadian media circles as the TV music company (but with a thriving line of business providing...