The $3.4B deal, which includes debt, is one of the largest media mergers Canada has ever seen — and will significantly strengthen BCE’s clout in Quebec. With Astral, Canada’s top telecom company will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TORONTO (AP) -- Canadian broadcasting and advertising company Astral Media Inc. said Friday that it is still talking with BCE Inc.

In a better, more market-driven world, BCE would have been given the chance to be spectacularly wrong — or right In its limited and superficial analysis of the deal, the CRTC said “A transaction of ...

Until we get more colour going forward, [a successful deal] is our focus “We are still committed to see if there’s a way to complete this transaction,” Ian Greenberg, the television, radio and ...

MONTREAL – Astral Media Inc. is reworking a friendly takeover by telecom giant Bell that’s expected to see the Montreal company sell off some broadcast assets to win regulatory approval. The CRTC ...

Bell Canada’s parent has agreed to buy Astral Media, its largest content provider, in a $3 billion deal to lock up more of the programming carried over its media platforms and expand its presence in ...

Astral Media is reworking a friendly takeover by telecom giant Bell that's expected to see the Montreal company sell off some broadcast assets to win regulatory approval. The CRTC killed the ...

TORONTO, June 5 (Reuters) - BCE Inc, Canada's largest telecom company, is confident it will win regulatory approval for its proposed acquisition of Astral Media Inc and said it sees plenty of interest ...

MONTREAL -- Astral Media Inc. is reworking a friendly takeover by telecom giant Bell that's expected to see the Montreal company sell off some broadcast assets to win regulatory approval. The CRTC ...

(AP)—Canadian broadcasting and advertising company Astral Media Inc. said Friday that it is still talking with BCE Inc. in the hopes of finding a way to have the friendly takeover offer by the telecom ...