Astral Media

Astral Media Inc. is a Canadian media corporation. It is Canada's largest radio broadcaster with radio station in eight provinces, as well as several television station that are available across Canada, including The Movie Network, Viewers Choice, Family, Teletoon and more. Astral Media's roots lie with Angreen Photo, a Canadian company founded in 1961. It was created when Montreal's Greenberg brothers founded it to operate the photography concession in Miracle Mart, a department store chain. Its acquisition in 1968 of a photographic store eventually grew into a 125-store chain, Astral Photo, the remnants of which are now owned by the Black's chain. The store grew quickly into motion picture processing after acquiring the Pathé-Humphries motion picture lab. The name was changed to Bellevue Pathé and later to AstralTech. Astral, in its present day form, was constituted in 1973 under the name Astral Bellevue Pathé Limited. Astral eventually undertook videocassette duplication and... full article at wikipedia