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78-437: BNN was established on September 1, 1999 as Report on Business Television ( RoBTV ) under a joint venture of Thomson Corporation , the owners of The Globe and Mail newspaper, Western International Communications and Cancom . Canwest , the owners of Global Television Network , acquired WIC in 2000 while Thomson transferred the shares of its channel to Bell Globemedia where it has been solely owned since 2001. The channel

156-555: A co-production with BNN, with Amanda Lang co-hosting from Toronto. As a result of the partnership, the U.S. Bloomberg Television was once again pulled from Canadian television providers, but the network, as well as BNN Bloomberg itself, can be streamed online by BNN subscribers on participating television providers . On June 20, 2024, Bell Media announced that BNN Bloomberg (along with sister channel CP24 ) would move to Bell Media's 9 Channel Nine Court building in Scarborough in

234-536: A digital voice package. Bell Home Phone and Bell Mobility provide voicemail service as an optional feature for residences and businesses. Bell Prepaid customers, however, receive a basic voice mail at no additional charge. The complimentary voice mail can store five messages of one minute each, for up to five days. Bell Mobility operates a cellular network in all Canadian provinces. It also owns Virgin Mobile Canada as of May 2009 . While it created

312-905: A fee structure based on total capacity needed. Bell Canada had originally wanted to charge providers by how much data each user downloaded. In May 2017, the email addresses of 1.9 million Bell customers were stolen, along with the name and phone numbers of 1.7 million customers. Then in January 2018, there was another data breach affecting about 100 thousand Bell customers. Bell Canada's mobile phone services has been criticized for monopolistic practices, including during its acquisition of MTS. Bell Canada provides many different types of telecommunications services. Bell Canada provides standard voice service . It used to offer VoIP to customers, branded as "Digital Voice". Businesses can still obtain VoIP service. It now offers BTC (Bell Total Connect) SIP service as

390-570: A government operation that was transferred to the control of Canadian National Railways. Bell acquired interests in all Atlantic companies during the early 1960s, starting with Newfoundland Telephone (which later was organized as NewTel Communications ) on July 24, 1962. Bell acquired controlling interest in Maritime Telephone and Telegraph Company , later known as MT&T, which also owned PEI-based Island Telephone , and in Bruncorp,

468-418: A key company goal. "Except for its educational division, which still publishes a substantial number of conventional textbooks, Thomson had the good fortune to move into these businesses as customers were demanding electronic delivery of their information", according to a 3 July 2006 article. "In some markets, Thomson was able to move past other players who were more cautious about digital conversion." In 2003,

546-534: A large portion of its business day programming in-house, much of the channel's programming was also simulcasted on radio, branded as BNN Bloomberg Radio , formerly by CKOC in Hamilton and CFTE in Vancouver . As a former Category A service , BNN Bloomberg was required to be carried on the basic service of all digital cable providers across Canada. The channel was, and still is, typically offered optionally at

624-633: A larger reliance on information technology services and products. On 1 January 2004, Thomson adopted a new accounting standard, which required restatement of all prior periods. The company restated its financial reports accordingly. Members of the last board of directors of Thomson were as follows: David K.R. Thomson (chairman of the board since 2002), W. Geoffrey Beattie , Richard Harrington, Ron D. Barbaro , Mary Cirillo , Robert Daleo , Steven Denning, Maureen Darkes , Roger Martin , Vance Opperman , John M. Thompson , Peter Thomson, Richard Thomson and John A. Tory . The Thomson family owned 70% of

702-617: A locked IPTV service known as Bell Fibe TV and Alt TV . The latter is available in most of Alberta , British Columbia, the Greater Toronto Area , Ottawa , Montreal , Québec City and Atlantic Canada. Bell Internet provides high speed DSL and fiber to the home FTTH Internet service in many areas where it offers phone service. DSL is offered in various speeds ranging from 500 kbit/s to 100 Mbit/s download and 256 kbit/s to 10 Mbit/s upload on DSL while up to 8 Gbit/s on fiber optic depending on what

780-525: A policy of bandwidth throttling of BitTorrent traffic across its network when it announced it would stop the practice of "traffic shaping" during periods of high demand beginning in March 2012. In November 2011, only a few weeks before, the CRTC issued a ruling that stopped the controversial practice of usage-based billing of smaller internet service providers who purchase space on Bell Canada networks, providing

858-459: A press release issued February 24, 2022, Bell announced that it has acquired Internet service provider EBOX. Bell wishes to keep the brand and the activities of EBOX and let the company continue to operate independently while remaining based in Longueuil. Bell previously offered Bell Home Monitoring, also known as Bell Gardium. Bell Canada also previously offered cable television services in

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936-529: A publicly traded company in Canada. Roy Thomson's prolific endeavours in publishing earned him the hereditary title Lord Thomson of Fleet in 1964. Thomson's interests moved beyond publishing with the creation of Thomson Travel and acquisition of Britannia Airways in 1965 and 1971, and a foray into a consortium exploring the North Sea for oil and gas. Thomson used its oil profits to buy small newspapers in

1014-487: A reported $ 435 million. Prometric now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of ETS. On 15 May 2007, the Thomson Corporation reached an agreement with Reuters to combine the two companies, a deal valued at $ 17.2 billion. On 17 April 2008, the new company was created under the name of Thomson Reuters. The chief executive officer of Thomson Reuters is Jim Smith, and the chairman is David Thomson , formerly of

1092-607: A restructuring whereby Aliant, renamed Bell Aliant Regional Communications , took over Bell's wireline operations in much of Ontario and Quebec (while continuing to use the "Bell" name in those regions), as well as its 63% ownership in rural lines operator Bell Nordiq (a publicly traded income trust that controls NorthernTel and Télébec ). These are in addition to Bell Aliant's operations in Atlantic Canada . In turn, Bell has assumed responsibility for Bell Aliant's wireless and retail operations. Bell Aliant, now an income trust,

1170-581: A result of the stock transaction used by Northern Telecom to purchase Bay Networks, BCE ceased to be the majority owner of Nortel, and in 2000, BCE spun out its share of Nortel, distributing its holdings to its shareholders. Between 1980 and 1997, the federal government fully deregulated the telecommunications industry and Bell Canada's monopoly largely ended. Bell Canada currently provides local phone service only in major city centres in Ontario and Quebec. In July 2006, Bell and former subsidiary Aliant completed

1248-471: A series of special presentations throughout the year, including specials for tax and Registered Retirement Savings Plan seasons. In the fall of 2006, Report on Business Television hosted its first "Live On Location" event in Toronto during which a studio audience was featured during two of the network's most popular shows, Market Call with Jim O'Connell and SqueezePlay with Kim Parlee and Andrew Bell. This

1326-685: A subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group , known as Refinitiv ), Checkpoint, EndNote (now produced by Clarivate , an independent company), Derwent World Patents Index (now produced by Clarivate), SAEGIS (now produced by Clarivate), MicroPatent , Aureka (now owned by Clarivate), Faxpat , OptiPat , Just Files , Faxpat , OptiPat , Just Files , Corporate Intelligence , InfoTrac (now owned by Cengage ), Delphion , Arco Test Prep (now owned by Cengage), Peterson's Directories (now owned by Cengage), NewsEdge , TradeWeb , Web of Science (now produced by Clarivate) and

1404-618: Is 44% owned by Bell. On April 30, 2007, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced its decision to allow pay phone rates for Bell Canada, Telus, Bell Aliant, SaskTel, and MTS Allstream to increase from 25 cents to 50 cents, starting as early as June 1. The CRTC also permitted local rural rates to increase by the lesser of the annual rate of inflation or five percent, and removed price caps on optional rural services, such as call display and voicemail. On June 2, 2007, Bell Canada increased

1482-521: Is a Canadian telecommunications company headquartered at 1 Carrefour Alexander-Graham-Bell in the borough of Verdun, Quebec , in Canada. It is an ILEC (incumbent local exchange carrier) in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec ; as such, it was a founding member of the Stentor Alliance . It is also a CLEC (competitive local exchange carrier) for enterprise customers in the western provinces. Its subsidiary Bell Aliant provides services in

1560-609: Is headquartered at the Campus Bell complex in the borough of Verdun in Montreal. Bell Canada is one of the main assets of the holding company BCE Inc. , an abbreviation of its full name, Bell Canada Enterprises. In addition to the Bell Canada telecommunications properties, BCE also owns Bell Media (which operates mass media properties including the national CTV Television Network ) and holds significant interests in

1638-518: Is surrounded by the territory of Northwestel , implying that the company that established service there was acquired by a company serving territories further south.) Although Bell Canada entered the Northwest Territories (NWT) with an exchange at Iqaluit (then known as Frobisher Bay, in the territory now known as Nunavut) in 1958, Canadian National Telecommunications, a subsidiary of Canadian National Railways (CNR), provided most of

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1716-467: The Financial Post on Bell Expressvu . Bell Globemedia assumed full control of ROBTv in late 2001; the channel was then rebranded as Report on Business Television, discontinuing use of the abbreviated "ROBTv" brand. On March 12, 2007, the channel was renamed Business News Network. The name change occurred to give exclusive rights to the "Report on Business" name to The Globe and Mail and for

1794-722: The Independent of St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1952. He was told by the UK Government that to qualify for a peerage, in keeping with other press barons in London, he would have to reside in the UK. Accordingly, he moved to Edinburgh and invited newspaper owners to sell to him. In this expansion in the United Kingdom the first to come forward and be bought was The Scotsman in 1953. He had no experience of television but saw

1872-531: The National Post , the Globe ' s chief rival, while Thomson transferred the Globe and its shares of ROBTv to Bell Globemedia , a newly formed media company which also included CTV , in which Thomson held a 20% interest. Following threats of legal action from both sides, in 2001 CanWest agreed to sell its 50% interest to Bell Globemedia, in exchange for carriage of a proposed competitor aligned with

1950-1012: The Arden Shakespeare (now published by Bloomsbury Publishing ). Thomson formerly owned Jane's Information Group , now owned by Montagu Private Equity . These information sources are produced by the many companies of Thomson, including West Publishing , Thomson Financial , ISI (now owned by Clarivate), Thomson Gale (now owned by Cengage), Dialog Corporation (now owned by Clarivate), Brookers, Carswell , CCBN, Course Technology (now owned by Cengage), Gardiner-Caldwell, IHI, Lawbook Co, Wadsworth (now owned by Cengage), Thomson CompuMark (now owned by Clarivate) and Sweet & Maxwell . Thomson Reuters New Zealand Limited has been publishing and updating information on New Zealand law since 1910, formerly as John Friend Ltd, to Brooker and Friend Ltd, to Brookers, to Thomson Brookers'. Thomson had divested many of its traditional media assets – or combined them with digital products – and had moved toward

2028-639: The Atlantic provinces . It provides mobile service through its Bell Mobility (including flanker brand Virgin Plus ) subsidiary, and television through its Bell Satellite TV ( direct broadcast satellite ) and Bell Fibe TV ( IPTV ) subsidiaries. Bell Canada's principal competitors are Rogers Communications in Ontario and Western Canada, Telus in Quebec and Western Canada, and Quebecor ( Videotron ) in Quebec. The company serves over 13 million phone lines and

2106-538: The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club and Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment , owner of several Toronto professional sports franchises. BCE ranked number 301 on the 2021 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list. Historically, Bell Canada has been one of Canada's most important and most powerful companies and, in 1975, was listed as the fifth largest in the country. The company is named after

2184-1037: The National Bell Telephone Company , formed in Boston, Massachusetts earlier that year by the merger of the Bell Telephone Company and the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company , which in 1880 reorganized as the American Bell Telephone Company, initiating the Bell System . That same year the Canadian division was renamed to "The Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd.", eventually to be headed by U.S. executive Charles Fleetford Sise from Chicago who served as its first general manager. The first supplier of telephones to Bell

2262-536: The West Publishing Company , a legal information provider in Eagan, Minnesota . In recent years, Thomson provided much of the specialised information content the world's financial, legal, research and medical organizations rely on every day to make business-critical decisions and drive innovation. While it remained a publishing company, early and aggressive investment in electronic delivery had become

2340-614: The 2008 Beijing Olympics, Bell introduced a new logo and minimalist ad style, with the slogans "Today just got better" (with emphasis on the suffix " er ") in English Canada and "La vie est Bell" (a pun on "La vie est Belle" — French : life is beautiful ) in French Canada. The font used in Bell's marketing is a custom typeface known as 'Bell Slim', by Canadian typeface designer Ian Brignell. The financial performance of

2418-705: The 20th century Bell acquired most of the independent companies in Ontario and Quebec, most notably the purchase of Nexxlink Technologies, a Montreal-based integrated IT solutions and telecommunications provider founded by Karol Brassard. Alongside the acquisition of Charon Systems, Nexxlink now operates today as Bell Business Solutions—a division of Bell Canada. Quebec, however, still has large swaths of relatively rural areas served by Telus Québec (formerly Québec Telephone, later acquired by Telus ) and Télébec (now owned by Bell Canada via Bell Aliant) and by some 20 small independent companies. As of 1980, Ontario still had some 30 independent companies, and Bell has not acquired any;

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2496-669: The April 30, 2018, rebranding of BNN, Bell also relaunched its Vancouver radio station CFTE (formerly a TSN Radio station) as BNN Bloomberg Radio. The station features audio simulcasts of BNN Bloomberg television programs, as well as other Bloomberg Radio programs. The station is aimed to a national audience for streaming via iHeartRadio . On February 9, 2021, Bell flipped CKOC in Hamilton to BNN Bloomberg Radio as well, after it dropped its own TSN Radio format. In 2023, CFTE in Vancouver

2574-873: The Bell System in the United States; the regional operating company (Bell Canada) sold telephone services as a local exchange carrier, and Western Electric (Northern Electric) designed and manufactured telephone equipment. As part of the consent decree signed in 1956 to resolve the antitrust lawsuit filed in 1949 by the United States Department of Justice, AT&T and the Bell System proper divested itself of Northern Electric in 1956. In October 1973, AT&T and Bell Canada signed an agreement stating that AT&T would no longer furnish Bell System communications and research to Bell Canada. AT&T's at-the-time chairman John DeButts explained that

2652-537: The Canadian market until James Cowherd's untimely death from tuberculosis in 1881. With a government-granted monopoly on Canadian long-distance telephone service, The Bell Telephone Company of Canada was serving 237,000 subscribers by 1914. Since its early years The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, Ltd. had been known colloquially as "The Bell" or "Bell Telephone". On March 7, 1968, Canadian federal legislation renamed The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, Ltd. to Bell Canada. Bell Canada extended lines from Nova Scotia to

2730-490: The Canadian market. This order could not be fulfilled due to surging demand in the United States. For a few years, the senior Bell and his friend and business associate Reverend Thomas Philip Henderson collected royalties from the lease of telephones to customers in the limited late-1870s Canadian market, who either operated their own private telephone lines or subscribed to a third party telecommunications service provider . In 1879 Bell's father sold his Canadian rights to

2808-466: The Home services to certain subscribers across Eastern Canada, this service can provide guaranteed download of 3 Gbit/s and upload speeds of 3 Gbit/s. In August 2019, the company announced it would cut roughly 200,000 households from a rural internet expansion program after a federal regulator lowered wholesale broadband prices that major telecom companies can charge smaller internet providers. In

2886-570: The Manitoba system, now known as Bell MTS , on March 17, 2017. British Columbia, served today by Telus , was served by numerous small companies that mostly amalgamated to form British Columbia Telephone, later known as BC Tel (the last known acquisition was the Okanagan Telephone Company in the late 1970s), which served the province from the 1960s until its merger with Telus. (The amalgamations produced one anomaly: Atlin

2964-699: The NASDAQ Market Site in New York City 's Times Square, and in Calgary . BNN attracts approximately 5,000 regular viewers daily and has a strong viewership outside of the home (such as in gyms, restaurants and offices) which is not reflected in its ratings. This is a situation also faced by networks with high out-of-home viewing patterns such as CNBC . In March 2016, ratings data from Numeris showed BNN had an average weekly reach of more than 1 million viewers since December 2015. The network hosts

3042-545: The Solo Mobile brand in 1999, Bell shut down all standalone Solo stores in 2011 while discontinuing third-party sales of all Solo phones in November 2011. The brand continues to be active for its current customers, but there are no incentives to encourage new subscriptions. Formerly known as ExpressVu, Bell Satellite TV is a satellite television service provider. There is also a mobile TV service, Bell Mobile TV , and

3120-629: The Thomson Corporation bought the Chilton automotive assets . Also in 2003, Thomson acquired the software company Elite Information Group and medical education company Gardiner-Caldwell. Also in 2003, Thomson sold its medical magazine publishing units to Advanstar Communications. Thomson also acquired the publisher Techstreet. In 2004, Thomson acquired Tradeweb . In late 2004, the company sold its Thomson Media group to Investcorp . The B2B publishing group, which features such titles as American Banker , National Mortgage News , and The Bond Buyer ,

3198-735: The Thomson Corporation through a family-owned entity, the Woodbridge Company , based in Toronto . (Along with 70% of Thomson Corporation, Woodbridge also owns a 40% stake in CTVglobemedia , which now owns the Globe and Mail daily newspaper in Toronto and CTV , Canada's largest commercial TV network.) David K.R. Thomson and his brother, Peter Thomson , became co-chairmen of Woodbridge after their father's death. Bell Canada Bell Canada (commonly referred to as Bell )

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3276-577: The Thomson Corporation. Although it was officially a Canadian company and remained Canadian owned, Thomson was run from its operational headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut , in the United States. The Thomson Corporation grew from a single Canadian newspaper, the Timmins Daily Press , acquired in 1934 by Roy Thomson (later to become 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet), into a global media concern. Thomson acquired his first non-Canadian newspaper,

3354-595: The Thomson Corporation. Over the years, the company has withdrawn from its holdings in the oil and gas business, the travel industry and department stores. When Kenneth Thomson took over from his father Roy in 1976, the company was worth about $ 500 million. At Kenneth's death in June 2006, the company was valued at about $ 29.3 billion. In 1978, the acquisition of Wadsworth Publishing provided Thomson with its first entry into specialised information, college textbooks and professional books. (In 2007, Thomson Learning, including

3432-588: The United Kingdom via Bell Cablemedia plc (a joint venture with Jones Intercable and Cable & Wireless plc ) from 1994 until 1997, when Vidéotron first sold its UK operations to Bell Cablemedia, after which Bell Cablemedia and the UK operations of NYNEX Corporation merged with Cable & Wireless plc to form Cable & Wireless Communications . Bell Canada created the Frank and Gordon beavers to advertise its products from 2006 to 2008. Coinciding with its advertising campaign as part of its sponsorship of

3510-432: The United States under the title of "Improvement In Telegraphy" ( U.S. patent 174,465 ). His device later adopted the name now used worldwide, the telephone . Bell also patented it in Canada and transferred 75% of the Canadian patent rights to his father, Alexander Melville Bell , with the remaining 25% being awarded to Boston telephone manufacturer Charles Williams Jr. in exchange for 1,000 telephones to be provided to

3588-785: The United States, starting with the acquisition of Brush-Moore Newspapers in 1967 for $ 72 million, at the time the largest sale of newspapers. By the end of the 1970s, Thomson Newspapers' circulation in the United States had surpassed the 1 million mark. In 1974, it was rumored to be planning a takeover of Speidel Newspapers . The Thomson Organization was reorganised into the International Thomson Organization in 1978 in order to move its operating base from Britain to Canada, so that it would not be subject to British monopolies legislation, foreign‐exchange controls and dividend limitation. The International Thomson Organization and Thomson Newspapers merged in 1989, creating

3666-482: The Wadsworth imprint, was sold and renamed as Cengage Learning .) Starting in the mid-1990s, Thomson invested further in specialised information services (but this time providing them in digital format) and began selling off its newspapers. That was about the time Richard J. Harrington, an accountant, became chief executive officer of the company. One of the first moves came when Thomson spent $ 3.4 billion to acquire

3744-473: The acquisition of Bay Networks. Bell Canada acquired 100 percent of Northern Electric in 1964; starting in 1973, Bell's ownership stake in Northern Electric was diminished through public stock offerings, though it retained majority control. In 1983, as a result of deregulation, Bell Canada Enterprises (later shortened to BCE ) was formed as the parent company to Bell Canada and Northern Telecom. As

3822-634: The business news section of the Thomson-owned The Globe and Mail . In 2000, Canwest acquired WIC and its interest in ROBTv. As part of the agreement transferring WIC's interests in Cancom to Shaw Communications , Canwest acquired Cancom's share of the channel as well. The same year, the owners came into conflict with each other: Canwest acquired the Southam newspaper chain, including

3900-448: The channel to have its own identity. It also alleviated a common problem with the ROBTv name: other media and viewers called it "Rob TV", rather than sounding out the ROB acronym as preferred by the network. BNN relocated its operations from 720 King Street West to 299 Queen Street West on December 6, 2010, in the building in which was previously occupied by CITY-TV 's CityNews department

3978-574: The company. When Kenneth Thomson died in June 2006, control of the family fortune passed on to David K.R. Thomson under a plan put together decades earlier by company founder Roy Thomson . "David, my grandson, will have to take his part in the running of the organisation and David's son, too," Roy wrote in his 1975 autobiography. "With the fortune that we will leave to them go also responsibilities. These Thomson boys that come after Ken are not going to be able, even if they want to, to shrug off these responsibilities." The Thomson family controlled

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4056-649: The cost of a local pay phone call to 50 cents when paid in cash and one dollar when paid by calling card or credit card, Bell's first increase in pay phone rates since 1981. In 2009, Bell Canada purchased electronics retailer The Source and all other assets of InterTAN Canada Ltd. from bankrupt Circuit City . Bell has deployed MPLS on their nationwide fibre ring network to support consumer and enterprise-level IP applications, such as IPTV and VoIP . On March 17, 2017, BCE Inc. completed its acquisition of Manitoba Telecom Services . Bell Canada has faced controversy and scandal. In late 2011, Bell Canada admitted to

4134-416: The discretion of providers. The network was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1996 to a joint venture of Thomson Corporation (50%), Western International Communications (25%) and Cancom (25%). It launched on September 1, 1999, as Report on Business Television (although using the abbreviation ROBTv ); it was co-branded with Report on Business ,

4212-629: The foot of the Rocky Mountains in what is now Alberta. However, most of the attention given to meeting demand for service focused on major cities in Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces . During the late 19th century, Bell sold its Atlantic operations in the three Maritime provinces, where many small independent companies also operated and eventually came under the ownership of three provincial companies. Newfoundland and Labrador joined Canada with several private companies, and

4290-413: The independent companies. Having achieved a high level of development, Manitoba moved to privatize its telephone utility and Alberta privatized Alberta Government Telephones to create Telus in the 1990s. Saskatchewan continues to own SaskTel as a crown corporation .Edmonton was served by a city-owned utility, Edmonton Telephones Corporation, that was sold to Telus in 1995. BCE re-gained ownership of

4368-657: The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell , who also co-founded Bell Telephone Company in Boston, Massachusetts. Bell Canada operated as the Canadian subsidiary of the Bell System from 1880 to 1975. However, unlike the other regional Bell operating companies, Bell Canada had its own research and development labs. In the mid-1870s Alexander Graham Bell , who was Scottish-born but lived in Canada, invented an analogue electromagnetic telecommunication device that could simultaneously transmit and receive human speech. In March 1876 he successfully patented his invention in

4446-517: The local infrastructure can support. Bell began offering Fibre-to-the-node Internet access to some subscribers in 2010. Bell markets this service under the name "Fibe". Many urban Fibe regions can access all speeds up to and including 50+mbps down and 15+mbps up but some rural Fibe regions can only obtain 16 Mbit/s down and 1 Mbit/s up. Non-Fibe regions are limited to legacy DSL technology, supporting speeds of up to 7 Mbit/s down and 1 Mbit/s up. Bell Canada has now rolled out Fibre to

4524-543: The main reason for this was because Bell Canada had developed its own research and development lab ( Bell-Northern Research ), making Bell Canada ready to serve its Canadian landline customers on its own. As a result, AT&T divested Bell Canada on June 30, 1975. Even though Bell Canada had been divested, it was allowed to participate in Bell System projects which could be completed shortly after its divestiture date. Northern Electric renamed itself Northern Telecom in 1976, which in turn became Nortel Networks in 1998 with

4602-685: The paper. Following the merger with Bell Canada, on April 1, 2011, Bell Canada renamed its new business unit from CTVglobemedia to Bell Media . On January 9, 2018, Bell Media announced that it had reached a licensing and content agreement with Bloomberg L.P. , under which BNN would be co-branded as BNN Bloomberg — a rebranding which took effect April 30, 2018. The rebranded network collaborates with Bloomberg's existing news bureaus, which include five Canadian bureaus staffed by over 25 reporters. Bell Media Radio also holds rights to distribute Bloomberg Radio content in Canada; Bloomberg had previously partnered with Channel Zero on Bloomberg TV Canada , which

4680-1063: The parent company of NBTel in 1966. The purchase of MT&T was made despite efforts of the Nova Scotia legislature on September 10, 1966, to limit the voting power of any shareholder to 1000 votes. Bell-owned MT&T absorbed some 120 independent companies, most serving fewer than 50 customers each. Bell-owned NewTel purchased the CNR-owned Terra Nova Tel in 1988. In the late 1990s, Newtel, Bruncorp, MT&T and Island Tel merged into Aliant, now Bell Aliant which owns many services in rural areas of Ontario and Quebec formerly owned by Bell Canada. On January 1, 2011, Bell acquired xwave from Bell Aliant for $ 40 million, an information technology company offering sales and services in Atlantic Canada. Independent companies appeared in many areas of Ontario, Quebec and Maritime provinces without adequate Bell Canada service. During

4758-480: The prairies had been scant or insufficient relative to growth, and all three had various local telephone companies. The Alberta government's Alberta Government Telephones Commission and Manitoba Government Telephones purchased the Bell operations of their provinces in 1908. Saskatchewan's Department of Railways, Telegraphs and Telephones, established in June 1908, purchased the Bell operations on October 1, 1909; all three provinces' government operations eventually acquired

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4836-589: The profits it made in the US and successfully founded Scottish Television in 1957, locating its headquarters and studios in the Theatre Royal, Glasgow . He founded the Thomson Organization in 1959. In the 1960s, Thomson's UK publishing realm expanded to include Thomson Publication (UK), a consumer magazine and book publishing house, and The Times . In 1965, Thomson Newspapers, Ltd. was formed as

4914-410: The site included blogs, a "Market Monitor", feature video clips on the homepage, an online stock ticker, features such as "Hot Stocks" and "Guest Picks", stock indices, and tracking of the latest and popular news stories on the site. BNN's weekend programming consists mainly of repeats of some of the programs aired on BNN's weekday schedule, as well as other Bloomberg Television series. Concurrent with

4992-443: The smaller ones were sold to larger independents with larger capital resources. Cellcom Communications is the largest franchisee of Bell Canada, currently operating 25 Bell stores in both Québec and Ontario regions. At separate times, the three Prairie provinces acquired Bell Canada operations and formed provincial utility services, investing to develop proper telephone services throughout those provinces; Bell Canada's investment in

5070-486: The telephone industry in Canada: Bell Canada as a regional operating company (affiliated with AT&T , with an ownership stake of approximately 39%) and Northern Electric as an equipment manufacturer (affiliated with Western Electric , with an ownership stake of approximately 44%). The Bell Telephone Company of Canada and Northern Electric were structured similarly in Canada to the analogous portions of

5148-470: The telephone service in Canada's northern territories (specifically, Yukon, northern BC and the western NWT). CNR created Northwestel in 1979, and Bell Canada Enterprises acquired the company in 1988 as a wholly owned subsidiary. Bell Canada sold its 22 exchanges in the eastern region of the NWT to Northwestel in 1992, and BCE transferred ownership of the company to Bell Canada in 1999. Northwestel's operating area

5226-711: The third quarter of 2025. A large majority of the programming carried on BNN is produced in-house. Previously, it had been the Canadian broadcast partner of CNNfn , an American business news channel which ceased operations in December 2004. BNN features a televised stock ticker with real-time data from the Toronto Stock Exchange , the New York Stock Exchange , NASDAQ , and many international financial exchanges. In addition to its homebase in Toronto, BNN also operates news bureaus located at

5304-572: Was a company established by Thomas C. Cowherd and his son James H. Cowherd, in a three-storey brick building in Brantford, Ontario , creating Canada's first telephone factory. Thomas and James had been good friends of Alexander Graham Bell, providing stovepipe wire with which Bell conducted his early telephone experiments from his father's home in Tutelo Heights, Ontario , and also building some 2,398 telephones to Bell's specifications for

5382-633: Was also a major worldwide provider of higher education textbooks, academic information solutions and reference materials. On 26 October 2006, Thomson announced the proposed sale of its Thomson Learning assets. In May 2007, Thomson Learning was acquired by Apax Partners and subsequently renamed Cengage Learning in July. The Thomson Learning brand was used to the end of August 2007. Subsequently, on 15 October 2007, Educational Testing Service (ETS) finalized acquisition of Thomson's Prometric . Thomson sold its global network of testing centres in 135 countries, for

5460-473: Was closed and Hamilton's CKOC was sold, pending CRTC approval. The BNN Bloomberg Radio feed will continue to run until the sale of CKOC is completed. On June 26, 2024 the CRTC approved the sale of CKOC and the BNN Bloomberg Radio feed officially ended on August 19, 2024. *Currently being sold to other owners pending approval of the CRTC. Thomson Corporation The Thomson Corporation

5538-681: Was in 2001 opened to long-distance competition (which has materialized only in the form of prepaid card business, and service to large national customers with some operating locations in the north) and in 2007 to resale of local telephone service (which has not yet occurred). Northern British Columbia, northeastern Ontario and the James Bay region of northern Quebec were served by independent companies, though Bell Canada eventually provided service in more far-flung reaches of Ontario and Quebec, acquired ownership interests in companies serving large swaths of northwestern Quebec and northeastern Ontario, and in Northwestel. The Bell System had two main companies in

5616-410: Was located as well as CTV's Much and Toronto's 24-hour news service CP24 are based; all were formerly owned by CHUM Limited . The Thomson family reacquired control of the Globe (and therefore Report on Business) in late 2010, and CTVglobemedia's broadcasting assets were sold to Bell Canada ; as a result, the channel and the newspaper are no longer co-owned, although Bell retains a 15% interest in

5694-583: Was one of the world's largest information companies. It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organization and Thomson Newspapers. In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to form Thomson Reuters . The Thomson Corporation was active in financial services, healthcare sectors, law, science and technology research, as well as tax and accounting sectors. The company operated through five segments (2007 onwards): Thomson Financial , Thomson Healthcare , Thomson Legal, Thomson Scientific and Thomson Tax & Accounting. Until 2007, Thomson

5772-588: Was rebranded to Business News Network in 2007 which allowed The Globe and Mail to regain exclusive rights to the Report on Business brand. After the Thomsons reacquired the Globe paper and Bell Canada regained control of CTVglobemedia (the former Bell Globemedia) in 2011 where it became Bell Media, the channel was relaunched on April 30, 2018 under its current name, under a partnership with U.S. business channel Bloomberg Television . In addition to BNN producing

5850-655: Was renamed SourceMedia . In 2005, Thomson acquired medical education company Physicians World. In October 2006, the company confirmed it would sell the Thomson Learning market group in three parts. The first part, corporate education and training (NETg), has agreed to be sold to Skillsoft for $ 285 million. Apax announced its acquisition of Thomson's higher education business on 11 May 2007, for $ 7.5 billion in cash assets. In 2007, Thomson sold Thomson Medical Education (including Physicians' World and Gardiner-Caldwell) to private equity firm ABRY Partners. The group

5928-560: Was renamed KnowledgePoint360. Some of Thomson's brands are better known than the company name itself. Its brands include Thomson ONE , Westlaw , FindLaw , BARBRI , Pangea3 , Physician's Desk Reference (now published digitally as the Prescriber's Digital Reference ), RIA , Thomson Tax and Accounting ( tax and accounting software and services for accountants), Creative Solutions, Quickfinder, DISEASEDEX (now merged with IBM Watson Health ), DrugREAX, Medstat, Thomson First Call (now

6006-528: Was the U.S. service supplanted with programs covering Canadian financial news; that channel shut down in October 2017. BNN's existing domestic programming was largely maintained upon the rebranding, although the network does carry Bloomberg's business day programs for Asia and Europe outside of the North American business day. In addition, the 1:00 p.m. ET hour of Bloomberg Markets: Americas became

6084-524: Was the first time viewers had the opportunity to go live in person with the network during its regular broadcasts of Market Call . In May 2008, the network relaunched BNN.ca, featuring its first online contest called "The BNN.ca $ 25,000 Challenge". The updated BNN.ca showcased a new video player allowing investors to search, sort and personalize BNN video; and the new player increased availability of past BNN video by allowing viewers to access content for an unlimited period of time online. Other added features on

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