CFGE-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Sherbrooke , Quebec . The station airs an adult contemporary format , and is part of the Rythme FM network which operates across much of Quebec . The station's transmitter is located at Mount Bellevue .
24-444: Owned and operated by Cogeco , it broadcasts on 93.7 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 7,412 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 25,500 watts ( class B ). Since its transmitter site is located at Mount Bellevue, the station has (unlike competitors CITE-FM-1 and CIMO-FM ) good coverage in the city of Sherbrooke, but because of severe deficiencies in covering neighbouring Magog ,
48-584: A VoIP -based telephony service offering customers unlimited local & long distance calling within Canada and to the United States, voice mail, call display, call waiting, visual call waiting, call forwarding, 411-directory assistance, 911-emergency assistance, 611-technical support assistance, 711-message relay services and 0-operator services. More than 400,000 television service subscribers. Organizational founder An organizational founder
72-406: A shareholders' agreement , disputes about who the co-founders are, can arise. Some organizations maintain a connection with their founder by establishing a position of founder emeritus , either as an entirely symbolic post, or as a position with some power, such as a permanent position on the board of directors. A drawback to such an arrangement is the possibility that the founder will clash with
96-625: A founder is to distribute management duties so that others are clearly responsible for important operations. If the founder is on the nonprofit's board, part of the solution is to make sure that the board is diverse, balanced, and regularly infused with new blood". The language of securities regulation in the United States considers co-founders to be "promoters" under Regulation D . The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's definition of "Promoter" includes: (i) Any person who, acting alone or in conjunction with one or more other persons, directly or indirectly takes initiative in founding and organizing
120-470: A new subsidiary called Cogeco Peer 1 . In January 2018, Cogeco Communications Inc. announced that its US subsidiary Atlantic Broadband had completed the acquisition of the cable systems owned by Harron Communications which were operating under the brand name MetroCast for US$ 1.4 billion, making the company the eight largest hybrid fibre coaxial cable operator in North America. In February 2019,
144-543: A radio station in Quebec is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cogeco Cogeco Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications and media company. Its corporate offices are located at 1 Place Ville-Marie in Montreal , Quebec. The company is structured into three strategic business units (SBU); Cogeco Connexion, Breezeline (previously known as Atlantic Broadband), and Cogeco Media. The company provides
168-628: A range of telecommunication products and services including cable television, radio and television broadcasting, telephony, and Internet services in Ontario and Quebec in Canada, and in thirteen states along the east coast of the United States. Cogeco Inc. is a publicly traded company ( TSX : CGO ) and is controlled through multiple voting shares (accounting for 71.29% of votes) by the Audet family's holding company Gestion Audem Inc. In turn, Cogeco Inc. fully owns Cogeco Media, and owns 82.96% of
192-675: A second offer, increasing it to CA$ 11.1 billion in cash, which was again rejected by the Audet family. The offer expired that November. Rogers subsequently sold its remaining stakes in the Cogeco companies to the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in December 2023. Following the acquisition of systems in Ohio in 2021, Atlantic Broadband rebranded as Breezeline in early 2022. On 21 October 2020, Cogeco Communications announced an agreement for
216-837: A total of twenty-two radio stations in Quebec and one in Ontario. Also that year, the company purchased Métromédia for CA$ 41 million to later sell it in 2018 to Bell Media for an undisclosed amount. In February 2012, the company also sold its cable system Cabovisão in Portugal to the European media group Altice . In July 2012, the company expanded into the U.S. market by acquiring the cable system operator Atlantic Broadband . In December that same year, it acquired Peer 1 Hosting, an internet infrastructure provider, and later in October 2015, merged it with its Cogeco Data Services, forming
240-427: Is a person who has undertaken some or all of the formational work needed to create a new organization , whether it is a business , a charitable organization , a governing body, a school , a group of entertainers , or any other type of organization. If there are multiple founders, each can be referred to as a co-founder . If the organization is a business, the founder is usually an entrepreneur . If an organization
264-444: Is created to carry out charitable work, the founder is generally considered a philanthropist . A number of specific issues have been identified in connection with the role of the founder. The founder of an organization might be so closely identified with that organization, or so heavily involved in its operations, that the organization can struggle to exist without the founder's presence. "One practical way to cope with overreliance on
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#1732787230387288-479: The Audet family, indicated shortly thereafter that they would not support the offer. It was also rejected by the companies' boards of directors , and Quebec Premier François Legault had also signalled his opposition to losing another major Quebec-based company. Altice and Rogers said they would continue to pursue a purchase, with Rogers promising to maintain a separate management team and regional headquarters for its Quebec operations. In October 2020, Altice made
312-705: The acquisition of DERYTelecom by its subsidiary Cogeco Connexion for $ 405 million. Founded in Saguenay, DERYTelecom is the third largest cable company in Quebec. The closing of the transaction is announced on 14 December 2020. In February 2023, the company announced that it had acquired the telecommunications operation of Internet service provider oxio Within its Canadian cable operations in Ontario and Quebec, 98% of all homes passed by Cogeco Cable-owned plant are able to access digital cable services. In August 2018, Cogeco announced that it would convert its cablesystems to IPTV using MediaKind platforms. Cogeco Cable
336-436: The acquisition of an additional 19 cable systems. In a turn of events, in 2009, and again in 2010, Rogers invested substantially in both Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Cable Inc., resulting in some speculation surrounding the two rivals. In 2011, the company increased its radio station assets by acquiring Corus Québec , a subsidiary of Corus Entertainment , and in 2018 acquired additional radio stations from RNC Média , giving it
360-420: The business or enterprise of an issuer; however, not every promoter is a co-founder. In fact, there is no formal, legal definition of what makes someone a co-founder. The right to call oneself a co-founder can be established through an agreement with one's fellow co-founders or with permission of the board of directors, investors, or shareholders of a startup company . When there is no definitive agreement, like
384-539: The company announced it sold Cogeco Peer 1 to private equity firm Digital Colony for CA$ 720 million. Cogeco Peer 1 later changed its name to Aptum Technologies . On 2 September 2020, Altice USA announced an unsolicited offer to purchase both Cogeco and Cogeco Communications. Altice announced it would immediately resell Cogeco's Canadian assets to Rogers, which retains large minority interests in both Cogeco companies, while Altice would keep Cogeco's U.S. assets including Atlantic Broadband. Cogeco's controlling shareholders,
408-408: The company evolves. There are factors beyond the personality and professional accolades of a startup founder that impact the ability of a company to succeed, like trouble in funding, sudden market shutdown, not having the right team or poor scaling plan. Another problem that can arise is that of the forgotten founder, a person who participates early on in the formation of an enterprise, but leaves or
432-399: The founder, to control". The Harvard Business Review identified this problem as the founder's dilemma, noting that in most successful companies, the founder is pushed out of control by investors within the first few years after the formation of the company. In some cases, a company may have multiple founders, and a prominent source of conflict can be disagreements between these founders as
456-402: The person who has replaced them as leader of the organization, and that such a conflict will affect the performance of the founder emeritus as a board member. In some instances, the desire of the founder to maintain control over the organization becomes a problem because, when an entrepreneurial organization is successful, "[i]t outgrows the ability of the founder, or even of a small team around
480-669: The station operates a relay there, CFGE-FM-1 , which broadcasts on 98.1 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 360 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 900 watts ( class B ). The station received CRTC approval in 2003. On August 28, 2009, CFGE-FM received CRTC approval to increase their effective radiated power (ERP) to 7,412 watts, its maximum ERP to 25,550 watts), increasing its effective HAAT from 158.9 to 207.1 metres, and by relocating its transmitter. 45°22′29″N 71°55′00″W / 45.37472°N 71.91667°W / 45.37472; -71.91667 This article about
504-670: The voting rights in Cogeco Communications Inc. , a separate publicly traded company ( TSX : CCA ) which owns the Canadian and U.S. cable and telecom operations. The name Cogeco is an acronym for Compagnie Générale de Communication ("General Communications Company"). In June 1957, Henri Audet (1918-2012) left the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), became president and managing director of Télévision St. Maurice Inc., and
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#1732787230387528-657: Was awarded a broadcasting license by the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) to operate a television station in Trois-Rivières , Quebec. The call sign would be CKTM-TV , and it would become an affiliate of the CBC's French-language network . Télévision St. Maurice Inc . was later renamed Cogéco Radio-Télévision Inc . , a subsidiary of Cogeco Inc. He would also become chairman and president of La Belle Vision Inc . , which
552-708: Was in 1972, Cogeco's first acquisition. Henri Audet was chairman and CEO of Cogeco Inc. between 1976 and 1993, and later in 1996, was named President Emeritus of Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Cable Inc. Over time, the company divested itself of all its on-air broadcast television assets. In 1989, the company obtained its initial presence in Ontario by acquiring cable systems in Burlington and Oakville and in 1996 expanded further in Ontario by acquiring an additional 25 cable systems (303,000 customers for CA$ 350 million) from Rogers Communications . Between 1998 and 2001, Cogeco increased its footprint in both Quebec and Ontario with
576-839: Was one of the first major cable operators to deploy its network compliant with the Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) standard to provide all of its Internet Protocol (IP) based services, such as internet access and VoIP as early as 2002. In April 2009, Cogeco implemented a penalty for surpassing the bandwidth limits for each tier. As of August 2021, Cogeco offers up to gigabit download speeds (30 Mbit/s upload) in certain areas which takes advantage of its DOCSIS 3.1 platform upgrades and 180 Mbit/s download (10 Mbit/s upload) most of its footprint on DOCSIS 3.0. Cogeco Cable launched its digital phone service in June 2005,
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