ComBase

The CCNA keeps track of the ownership within its membership. Currently, of the 775 community newspapers that are CCNA members, 445 are corporately owned by one of 10 major corporate owners.

Major Corporate Owners:
("Major" is defined as owning 10 or more community newspapers in CCNA)

  • Black Press Group Ltd.
  • Brunswick News Inc.
  • G.T.C. Transcontinental Group Ltd.
  • Glacier Media Group
  • Great West Newspapers, LP.
  • Metroland Media Group Ltd.
  • Multimedia Nova Corporation
  • Performance Printing Ltd.
  • Postmedia Network Inc
  • Sun Media Corporation

» View the membership ownership chart

This chart shows number of titles by province. Clicking on a corporation name, or the number of holdings, will give a detailed list of the titles that are owned.

This chart shows the ownership of CCNA members only, and therefore may not reflect the complete ownership by corporations if its holdings are not in the CCNA membership. The CCNA tries its best to keep this information current, but this chart should be used as a guide only.


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» View the membership ownership graph

This pie-graph shows the percentage of titles owned by corporation. Mousing over a pie slice with display the corporation name, and clicking on a slice will give a detailed list of the titles that are owned.

This graph shows the ownership of CCNA members only, and therefore may not reflect the complete ownership by corporations if its holdings are not in the CCNA membership. The CCNA tries its best to keep this information current, but this chart should be used as a guide only.


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» View Snapshot

A review of corporate ownership is also available for the years 2002, 2005, 2006, and 2007. In addition to ownwership information, Snapshot provides other interest and informative statistics about the industry.

 


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Here are the latest articles on ownership from CCNA's Industry News archives:

Fourth-generation publisher buys Gabriola Sounder
Monday, September 22, 2008

Her father was a publisher. Her uncle was a publisher. Her grandfather and great-grandfather were publishers. For 25-year-old Sarah Holmes of Wainwright, ...

 
Torstar to increase ownership in Multimedia Nova
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Torstar Corporation agreed on Friday, June 27, to purchase 590,631 Class A voting shares in Toronto's Multimedia Nova for $236,253. Multimedia Nova is the ...

 
CRTC announces new media ownership rules
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

New media ownership rules announced on January 15 by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will restrict future cross-media ...

 
Transcontinental Media acquires Corriere Italiano
Monday, January 07, 2008

Transcontinental Media announced in December that it had acquired two Quebec weekly newspapers, including Montreal's Italian-language weekly newspaper Corriere ...

 
Springhill-Parrsboro Record sold to Transcontinental
Monday, November 26, 2007

Transcontinental Media announced on Friday that they have acquired the Springhill-Parrsboro Record from Advocate Media Inc.