12 Facts About Bell Media

Bell Media Inc is a Canadian media conglomerate that is the mass media subsidiary of BCE Inc .

Bell Media is the successor-in-interest to Baton Broadcasting, one of Canada's first private-sector television broadcasters.

All practical purposes, Bell Media is the successor to Baton Broadcasting Incorporated, which by the late 1990s had become one of Canada's largest broadcasters.

The CRTC approved Bell Media's proposed exemptions for maintaining ownership of Montreal's CKGM.

In December 2014, Bell Media launched CraveTV, a subscription video on-demand service.

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The move came following allegations reported by The Globe and Mail that, after the CRTC's March 2015 decision to mandate that pay television providers offer a la carte packages, Crull ordered all Bell Media-owned news properties, including CTV News, not to air any remarks by CRTC chairman Jean-Pierre Blais during reports regarding the decision.

In late-August 2015, Bell Media began a series of layoffs, which included directors and vice presidents.

Bell Media subsequently announced that it had acquired exclusive Canadian rights to all current HBO programming in Canada .

In May 2018, Bell Media announced that it, along with several other parties, would contribute French-language content to Radio-Canada's subscription streaming service Ici Tou.

In May 2018, Bell Media laid off 17 employees, resulting in the cancellation of Discovery's Daily Planet and Space's Innerspace.

Later that day, it was announced that Bell Media was one of two Canadian companies that had acquired a stake in the Montreal-based comedy festival Just for Laughs.

However, observers including Unifor, the main labour union representing Bell Media employees, questioned the need for the layoffs, given that parent company BCE had accepted $122 million in assistance through the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy in 2020, while being able to increase its dividend payments to shareholders.