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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Presidents of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, TVOntario executives, Jean Pouliot, Moses Znaimer, Michael Hirsh, Edward Samuel Rogers, Izzy Asper, Perrin Beatty, Graham Spry, Raymond Heard, Rae Hull, Isabel Bassett, Jerry Grafstein, Patrick Watson, Pierre Juneau, John Martin, Albert Wesley Johnson, Murray Chercover, Bernard Ostry, Jacques Bensimon, Denise Donlon, Leonard Brockington, Robert Rabinovitch, J. Conrad Lavigne, Davidson Dunton, George Forrester Davidson, Peter Herrndorf, Guy Fournier, Thomas Ide, Al Bruner, Gail Asper, Hubert Lacroix, Jim Parr, Paul Robertson, Ivan Fecan, Allan Waters, Carl Pollock, Laurent Picard, Gerard Veilleux, Leonard Asper, David Asper, Richard Stursberg, Sue Prestedge, Kirstine Stewart, Rita Deverell, Peter O'Brian, Rene Morin, Alphonse Ouimet, Spence Caldwell, John Radford, William T. Armstrong, Anthony S. Manera, Jay Switzer, Nancy Lee, Lisa de Wilde, Anne Marie La Traverse, Scott Moore, Rick Brace, Robert Hurst, Howard B. Chase, Susanne Boyce. Excerpt: Jean Adelard Pouliot, OC (June 6, 1923 - August 8, 2004) was a Canadian broadcasting pioneer who helped establish television stations in Kitchener, Ontario, and Quebec City, Quebec. Pouliot was the President and CEO for the first publicly-traded Quebec broadcasting company, Tele-Capitale, and started two French language networks: TVA (co-founded with Roland Giguere of Tele-Metropole in 1971), and TQS (Television Quatre Saisons) (launched in 1986). Pouliot founded CFCF Inc. in 1979 with his purchase of CFCF-TV, CFCF-AM, and CFQR-FM from the Bronfman family. CFCF Inc. went public in 1985, at which time it also included CF Cable TV, purchased by Pouliot in 1982. Pouliot was the Chairman and CEO of CFCF Inc. from 1979 to 1993, and remained Chairman until the company was sold to Videotron in 1997. Pouliot was born...
