Radio / Television News

We bet Quebecor announcement will be more than “Fox News North”, as has been speculated

TORONTO and OTTAWA - Quebecor’s rumoured new national news service could be revealed as early as Tuesday morning. Or, as we suspect, it will be a piece of a larger announcement from the broadcasting, publishing and cable giant.What is known is that Pierre Karl Péladeau, president and CEO of Quebecor, Quebecor Media, and Sun Media is scheduled to make an announcement at the Toronto Sun’s offices in Toronto on Tuesday “in regard to new investment in Canadian media”.A report in the Globe and Mail says that the company will invest approximately $100-million over five years on a channel modelled on the Fox...