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CanWest Global Communications Corp. is Canada's largest international media company. The company's head office is situated in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and its assets include: Global Television, a coast-to-coast Canadian broadcasting network which reaches over 94% of English-speaking Canada (ie. outside of Quebec), and CH, a second network located in Montreal, Quebec, Hamilton, Ontario and Victoria, British Columbia; CanWest Entertainment, a film and tv production and distribution operation; a growing interactive media business; eight specialty channels that offer variety programming, including Prime; and a significant international television and radio broadcasting presence in New Zealand, AustraliaAustralia is the sixth-largest country in the world (geographically), the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia. Australia includes the island of Tasmania, which is an Australian State. Its neighbouring count, the Republic of IrelandThe Republic of Ireland ( Irish: Poblacht na hEireann is the common term for a state which covers approximately five-sixths of the island of Ireland, off the coast of northwest Europe. It is the western-most state of the European Union. The remaining sixt and Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland is the smallest of the Home Nations of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland lies in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It covers 14,139 square kilometres (5,459 square miles), and has a populati. CanWest is Canada's largest newspaperBrookgreen Gardens Pawleys Island, South Carolina A newspaper is a lightweight and disposable publication, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint, containing a journal of current news in a variety of topics. These topics can include political publisherA publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. Major publishing companies include AOL Time Warner, including subsidiaries Warner Books and Little, Brown ASCII Baen Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hachette Filipacchi Media Harleq with ownership of the National PostThe National Post is a large Canadian English language national newspaper based in Toronto. The Post was founded in 1998 by Conrad Black to combat what he saw as an over- liberalizing of editorial policy in Canadian newspapers. From the beginning the Post, ten major metro dailies and 27 smaller daily, weekly and community papers in smaller communities throughout British Columbia. 1 Concentration of power
CanWest is often cited as an example of how the ownership of Canadian media has become concentrated in the hands of a few individuals and large corporations. CanWest founder Izzy AsperIsrael Izzy Harold Asper ( August 11, 1932 October 7, 2003), Canadian tax lawyer and media magnate, was the founder of CanWest Global Communications Corp. Asper was born in Minnedosa, Manitoba, the son of musicians who had emigrated from Ukraine. In 1957 was known as a strong supporter of both Canada's Liberal PartyLiberal Party of Canada Current Leader Paul Martin Founded July 1, 1867 (nation's founding) Headquarters Suite 40081 Metcalfe Street Ottawa, OntarioK1P 6M8 Colours Red Political ideology liberal International alignment Liberal International The Liberal Pa and Israel's right-wing Likud party. Observers have suggested that Asper's political views have had a significant impact on news coverage at CanWest media outlets. For example, in 2002, Ottawa Citizen publisher Russell Mills was fired by CanWest after the paper published a series of articles exposing a financial scandal involving then prime minister Jean Chretien.
CanWest power in the marketplace is reflected in a new contract that freelance contributors must sign. Until recently, standard industry practise was that freelancers sold the rights for one time use and only in Canada. CanWest now requires that freelancers sign over all rights "throughout the universe in perpetuity".
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