Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment Inc. is a Canadian mass media and television production company. Formed in 1999 as a spin-off from Shaw Communications, it has prominent holdings in the radio, publishing, and television industries. Corus is headquartered at Corus Quay in Toronto, Ontario. Corus has a large presence in Canadian broadcasting as owner of the national Global network (15 conventional stations), Corus Radio consisting of 36 radio stations, and a portfolio of 25 specialty television services, the company's domestic specialty brands includes Flavour Network, Home Network, Showcase, SériesPlus, Slice, Télétoon, Treehouse, W Network, and YTV. It also operates services under brand licensing agreements with A&E Networks (History, Lifetime, and Crime & Investigation), Paramount Skydance (CMT), The Walt Disney Company (Disney Channel and National Geographic), and Warner Bros. Discovery (Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and Adult Swim). It previously held rights to WBD lifestyle brands such as Food Network and HGTV (these moved to Rogers Communications in 2025) and Nickelodeon (Canadian distribution of US programming rights moved to the Canadian version of Paramount+ in 2025). Corus also owns the animation studio Nelvana, and children's publisher Kids Can Press. The second incarnation of Shaw's media division (formed from the properties of the bankrupt Canwest Global) was subsumed by Corus on April 1, 2016, giving it control of the over-the-air Global network and 19 additional specialty channels. In May 2019, Shaw announced that it would sell its shares in Corus for roughly $500 million.