Radio / Television News

Quebecor’s new Sun TV News will “challenge media establishment”


TORONTO – Quebecor will transform Sun TV into a new “hard news/straight talk” English specialty channel called Sun TV News for television audiences tired of “being exposed to dry news”, said Quebecor president and CEO of Pierre Karl Péladeau in Toronto on Tuesday morning.In his widely anticipated announcement, Péladeau said that the new channel will be loosely based on the company’s French-language all-news specialty service LCN, which saw its ratings more than triple when it moved toward that formula three years ago.  Sun TV News will replace the company’s struggling, Toronto-based over-the-air Sun TV station."Far too many Canadians are tuning out completely or changing...