Quebecor and Transcon in TV listings squabble
Montreal-based Quebecor Inc. (a significant magazine player and the largest magazine printer) is accusing Transcontinental Inc. (the largest consumer magazine player and one of the largest printers) of breaking a non-competition agreement.
According to an article inside and below the fold in the Globe and Mail, the accusation came out as part of pre-trial filings.
Transcon is apparently printing a TV-listings insert for the upstart La Semaine weekly gossip magazine. By printing the insert, called Télé-Semaine, Quebecor says it is breaking an agreement that is part of its co-ownership of the TV listings magazine TV Hebdo.
In other words, that Transcon is competing with itself, and thereby injuring its partner.
The unlikely Quebecor-Transcon partnership in TV Hebdo came about as the result of Quebecor's takeover six years ago of Vidéotron Ltéé and its subsidiary, TVA Group Inc., the dominant television broadcaster in Quebec.
According to an article inside and below the fold in the Globe and Mail, the accusation came out as part of pre-trial filings.
Transcon is apparently printing a TV-listings insert for the upstart La Semaine weekly gossip magazine. By printing the insert, called Télé-Semaine, Quebecor says it is breaking an agreement that is part of its co-ownership of the TV listings magazine TV Hebdo.
In other words, that Transcon is competing with itself, and thereby injuring its partner.
The unlikely Quebecor-Transcon partnership in TV Hebdo came about as the result of Quebecor's takeover six years ago of Vidéotron Ltéé and its subsidiary, TVA Group Inc., the dominant television broadcaster in Quebec.
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