UPDATED: Attraction Radio grows to 13 stations through latest acquisition

Growing in small market QuebecMONTREAL – It only started in 2012, but Quebec’s Attraction Radio has already grown, entirely through acquisitions, to become one of the top radio broadcast owners in Quebec, based on a business model of small-market stations each maintaining their own identity and local management.On Tuesday, the CRTC published the latest acquisition by this group, of CIPC-FM Port-Cartier (Radioactive 99.1) and CKCN-FM (PUR FM 94.1) in nearby Sept-Îles, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, 500 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.Both stations were owned by four shareholders, Yvan Beaulieu, Jean Laverdière, Luc Hovington and Alban...