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The London Free Press began as the Canadian Free Press, founded by William Sutherland.It first began printing as a weekly newspaper on January 2, 1849. In 1852, it was purchased for $500 by Josiah Blackburn (and Stephen Blackburn), [3] who renamed it The London Free Press and Daily Western Advertiser.
The Free Press, formerly owned by the Blackburn family, is now owned by Sun Media, a subsidiary of Quebecor Media Inc. Sun Media's subsidiary Bowes Publishing also owns and publishes The Londoner, a community-focused weekly started by Controller Gord Hume and former Free Press editor-in-chief Philip R. McLeod in 2002.
On October 6, 2014, Quebecor Media announced the sale of the remaining English-language print assets of Sun Media to rival Postmedia. The sale included neither the Sun News Network , which subsequently closed when a buyer was not found, nor Quebecor's French-language papers Le Journal de Montréal and Le Journal de Québec . [ 1 ]
In 1999, Quebecor Printing merged with World Color Press in a US$2.7 billion deal to create Quebecor World. (World Color Press was founded in 1904 in St. Louis, MO.World Color had pursued major expansions in 1996 and 1997, purchasing Ringier America and Rand McNally's Book Services Group.)
On June 27, 2007, a competing takeover offer from Black Press was also announced. [6] [7] On July 6, 2007, OMIF accepted a revised offer from Quebecor of C$575.8 million. [7] A decade after Osprey Media's demise, Sun Media was acquired by Postmedia in 2015 after Quebecor divested of its English newspapers. [8]
The French-language media in Quebec, particularly Quebecor, has termed anti-Quebec sentiment Québec bashing [6] —what it perceives as hateful, anti-Quebec coverage in the English-language media. It mostly cites examples from the English-Canadian media, and occasionally in coverage from other countries, often based on Canadian sources. [ 7 ]
Quebecor Inc. is a Canadian diversified media and telecommunications company serving Quebec based in Montreal. It was spelled Quebecor in both English and French until May 2012, when shareholders voted to add the acute accent, Québecor, in French only. [3] [4] [5] The company was founded in 1965 by Pierre Péladeau and remains run by his family.
Quebecor initially requested Category 1 status for Sun News on the basis that the channel's combination of news, analysis and opinion programming would create "a completely new [TV] genre" different from the other all-news channels in Canada. The CRTC disagreed, however, and turned down the application in a July 5, 2010 letter to Quebecor.