Groupe TVA

Groupe TVA Inc.

Company type	Public
Traded as	TSX: TVA.B
Industry	Diversified media and broadcasting
Founded	1960
Headquarters	Montreal, Quebec , Canada
Key people	Pierre Karl Péladeau, CEO Pierre Francoeur, President;
Products	Broadcasting Magazines Films
Services	Broadcasting Film production Publishing Audiovisual production
Parent	Quebecor Media (99.97% voting interest) Rogers Communications (0.03% voting interest)
Subsidiaries	TVA Films TVA Productions TVA Publishing
Website	www.groupetva.ca

Groupe TVA Inc. is a Canadian communications company with operations in broadcasting, publishing and production. It was founded as Télé-Métropole Corporation in 1960, and owned CFTM-TV, Montreal's first privately-owned francophone station. It changed its legal name to Groupe TVA inc. on February 17, 1998.^[1][2] Quebecor Media holds voting control of the company through near-complete control of Groupe TVA's Class A shares; only the non-voting Class B shares are currently publicly traded.

Groupe TVA owns and operates the TVA network, the largest private French language television network in Canada and the most watched television network in Quebec. It also operates seven specialty channels, available via subscription television across Canada, and a motion picture division. TVA and its specialty channels have a 69% share of revenue in the French speaking market. The total value of the private Francophone sector is $491 million of which $349 million goes to TVA.^[3]