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Quebecor and CBC Resolve Dispute

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2012-03-05

The Quebecor media empire and the CBC's French-language network appear to have resolved a bitter feud by concluding a new advertising deal.

Under the accord, Radio-Canada will buy advertising on different platforms owned by Quebecor, which publishes Le Journal de Montreal and has media properties in the rest of Canada under the Sun Media banner.

Quebecor, meanwhile, will renew distribution deals for various Radio-Canada specialty channels on its Videotron cable network.

Quebecor president Pierre Karl Peladeau says he's pleased Radio-Canada sees the value of his company's publications.

A Radio-Canada spokesman was not immediately available for comment.

Quebecor, which is privately owned, has been highly critical of the CBC and at one point Peladeau threatened legal action against the Crown broadcaster because it didn't advertise in Quebecor's French-language newspapers.


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Blackmail

This sounds like blackmail. If CBC doesn't advertise in Sun Media newspapers and on Quebecor media platforms, then Quebecor properties will not carry CBC specialty channels and Quebecor properties will disparage CBC at every opportunity and Quebecor will threaten legal action against CBC. Really?! This is how we do business?

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