Mid-Canada Communications [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Mid-Canada Communications
Mid-Canada Communications was a Canadian media company, which operated from 1980 to 1990. The company, a division of Northern Cable, had television and radio holdings in Northeastern Ontario.
MCTV.
Mid-Canada Television, or MCTV, was created in 1980 when Cambrian Broadcasting, which owned the CTV affiliates in Sudbury, North Bay and Timmins merged with J. Conrad Lavigne's CBC affiliates in the same cities.
This twinstick structure was permitted by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
CIGM calls and a country music format in 1978, after CBC Radio was granted a license for its own O&O station, CBCS-FM.
CIGM and CKSO were owned by Cambrian Broadcasting. The GM in the station's call sign was chosen by 1978 to honour George Miller, one of the founding investors in the company. Miller died in 1977.
As part of Cambrian's sale of CKSO-TV to Mid-Canada Communications in 1979/1980, the company's shareholders dissolved Cambrian and reincorporated themselves as a new company