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Cablecasting Limited
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Cablecasting Limited (CL Systems Limited) was Canada's fifth largest cable television company[1] serving cities in western Canada and some small towns in Ontario. The two major shareholders of the company were David R. Graham, who owned 99.1%, and Noel R. Bambrough who owned 0.1%. The rest of the shares were widely held through the TSE.
They owned cable facilities in the following markets:
- Greater Winnipeg Cablevision
- Calgary Cable TV/FM (served Calgary North)[2]
- Airdrie, Alberta
- Cochrane, Alberta
- Tillsonburg, Ontario
- Thames Cablevision Inc. of Strathroy, Ontario
- Allview Cable Service of St. Thomas, Ontario
- Graham Cable TV/FM serving City of York and parts of Toronto
- Lakeshore Community Television Limited serving Terrace Bay, White River, Red Rock, Nipigon, Marathon, Manitouwadge and Wawa, Ontario.
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In May, 1980, a U.S. subsidiary of Cable America Inc., Cablecasting Ltd. bought up 80% of a cable company in the state of Dekalb Cablevision Inc., serving 16,000 households in De Kalb, Georgia.[3]
Before SHAW Communications bought up these assets for $307,500,000 in 1992[4], Cablecasting Limited had 320,000 subscribers in the systems listed above. It was the fifth largest cable company in Canada .
- ^ Partridge, John. "Cablecasting putting systems on the market", Globe and Mail, November 23, 1989, p. B1.
- ^ Nelson, Barry. "Two cable systems serve Calgary", Calgary Herald, November 1, 1992, p. F1.
- ^ "COMPANIES IN THE NEWS CABLECASTING", Globe and Mail, May 17, 1980, p. B2.
- ^ "Western cable-TV firm purchases CL Systems", Toronto Star, March 14, 1992, p. C3.
- SEC Filing for Intacta Technologies Ltd. Noel R. Bambrough was CEO of this company after leaving Cablecasting Ltd.
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