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Astral Media: History & Companies
Astral Media Inc. was a Canadian media conglomerate. It was Canada's largest radio broadcaster, with 84 radio stations in eight provinces. Astral was also a major player in premium and specialty television in Canada, with 23 specialty channels and two conventional stations. In addition, Astral had a presence in out-of-home advertising.
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Astral Media topic overview
The analysis highlights History and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Astral Media.
Related topics
250
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
253
Extracted relationships
90
Concept neighborhoods
34
Bridge connections
253
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
Overview · 208 topics
History · 36 topics
Corporate governance · 6 topics
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Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Founded
August 31, 1961; 64 years ago (1961-08-31) (as Angreen Photo)
Industry
Mass media
Headquarters
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Defunct
July 5, 2013; 13 years ago (2013-07-05)
Fate
Most of its assets acquired by Bell Media · Teletoon (now Cartoon Network (Canada)), Historia, SériesPlus, and Télétoon taken under full control by Corus Entertainment · Family Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD sold to DHX Media (now WildBrain) · MusiquePlus and Musimax sold to V Media Group (now Remstar Media Group) · Astral name remains in use for its advertising division
Formerly
Astral Communications Ltd. (1973–2000)
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How Astral Media connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around Astral Media shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Astral Media → American Cinema Releasing, Astral, Astral Bellevue Pathé Limited, Astral Communications, Astral Film Enterprises, Astral Film Productions Ltd, Astral Films, Astral Video, Boardwalk, Boris, CBC, Centre De Production De, Coscient Group, First Choice, Greenbergs, Harold Greenberg, In, In February, It, Management Company Entertainment Group Another extracted example is Astral Media → Astral Media's, Astral's, Bell, Bell Canada, Bell Media, Bell's, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Cogeco, Competition Bureau, CRTC, CRTC's, During, Eastlink, French-language, In September, May, On March, Quebec Superior Court, Réseau, The. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
Astral Media
Top relations
related to Astral Communications Limited· 27
Astral Media → American Cinema Releasing, Astral, Astral Bellevue Pathé Limited, Astral Communications, Astral Film Enterprises, Astral Film Productions Ltd, Astral Films, Astral Video, Boardwalk, Boris, CBC, Centre De Production De, Coscient Group, First Choice, Greenbergs, Harold Greenberg, In, In February, It, Management Company Entertainment Group
related to Acquisition by Bell Media· 21
Astral Media → Astral Media's, Astral's, Bell, Bell Canada, Bell Media, Bell's, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Cogeco, Competition Bureau, CRTC, CRTC's, During, Eastlink, French-language, In September, May, On March, Quebec Superior Court, Réseau, The
Astral Media → Astral name remains in use for its advertising division, Family Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD sold to DHX Media (now WildBrain), Most of its assets acquired by Bell Media, MusiquePlus and Musimax sold to V Media Group (now Remstar Media Group), Teletoon (now Cartoon Network (Canada)), Historia, SériesPlus, and Télétoon taken under full control by Corus Entertainment
related to External links· 5
Astral Media → Astral Media Inc, Bell Media, Canadian Communications Foundation, History, Official
Defunct· 1
Astral Media → July 5, 2013; 13 years ago (2013-07-05)
Formerly· 1
Astral Media → Astral Communications Ltd. (1973–2000)
Founded· 1
Astral Media → August 31, 1961; 64 years ago (1961-08-31) (as Angreen Photo)
Headquarters· 1
Astral Media → Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Industry· 1
Astral Media → Mass media
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
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Astral Media relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 90 structured relationships around Astral Media. Examples in this analysis include Astral Media → Defunct → July 5, 2013; 13 years ago (2013-07-05) and Astral Media → Fate → Most of its assets acquired by Bell Media. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
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Astral Media
Defunct
July 5, 2013; 13 years ago (2013-07-05)
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infobox
Astral Media
Fate
Most of its assets acquired by Bell Media
1.00
infobox
Astral Media
Fate
Teletoon (now Cartoon Network (Canada)), Historia, SériesPlus, and Télétoon taken under full control by Corus Entertainment
1.00
infobox
Astral Media
Fate
Family Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD sold to DHX Media (now WildBrain)
1.00
infobox
Astral Media
Fate
MusiquePlus and Musimax sold to V Media Group (now Remstar Media Group)
1.00
infobox
Astral Media
Fate
Astral name remains in use for its advertising division
1.00
infobox
Astral Media
Formerly
Astral Communications Ltd. (1973–2000)
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infobox
Astral Media
Founded
August 31, 1961; 64 years ago (1961-08-31) (as Angreen Photo)
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infobox
Astral Media
Headquarters
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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infobox
Astral Media
Industry
Mass media
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Astral Media
Key people
Ian Greenberg (president, CEO and co-founder)
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Astral Media
Net income
$204.4 million (2012)
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Astral Media
Number of employees
2,800+ (2010)
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Astral Media
Revenue
$1.02 billion (2012)
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Astral Media
Traded as
TSX: ACM.A, ACM.B
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infobox
Astral Media
Type
Public
1.00
infobox
Astral Media
Website
www.bellmedia.ca/advertising-sales/out-of-home/
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infobox
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around Astral Media bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Media, Bell and Company. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
Astral Media
Media
Bell
Company
Acquisition
Radio
Family
Channels
Stations
Television
Montreal
Network
Announced
astral media
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bell media
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Deal
Television
Would
New
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Network
Astral's
academy of canadian cinema and television
Montreal
Family
Now
Would
Historia
Musimax
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Entertainment
Network
Corus
Media
sports radio
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Acquire
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Acquisition
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sportsnet radio
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Bell
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For Astral Media, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Astral Media with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Min side: 3
Astral Media — Overview· splits 45 ⟂ 209Astral Media — History· splits 217 ⟂ 37Astral Media — Corporate governance· splits 247 ⟂ 7
Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
Astral Media
Nodes254
Edges253
Triples90
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007874
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around Astral Media to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
