Editing Score Media

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{{Infobox company
| name   = Score Media Inc.
| logo   = Score Media.png
| traded_as      = Formerly {{TSX was|SCR}}
| foundation     = 1997
| owner = Levy family (74.07%)<br>[[Alliance Atlantis]]/[[Canwest]] (25.93%)
| successor        = [[theScore Inc.]]<br>[[Rogers Media]]
| former_name  = Headline Media Group
| key_people     = John S. Levy, Founder
| location       = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada
| industry       = [[Mass media|Media]]
| products       = [[Broadcasting]]
| revenue        = {{profit}}$7.73 million [[Canadian dollar|CAD]]
| homepage       = Formerly [http://www.scoremedia.ca/ www.scoremedia.ca]
| type = [[Public company]]
| fate=Acquired by [[Rogers Communications]]; some assets spun off as [[theScore Inc.]]
| defunct={{end date|df=yes|2013|04|30}}
}}

'''Score Media Inc.''' was a Canadian media company. Partially owned by [[Alliance Atlantis]] and later [[Canwest]], its  main asset was [[Sportsnet 360|The Score]], a national specialty television service providing sports news, information, highlights, live events, and other sports-related entertainment programming. The company also owns closed captioning service Voice to Visual Inc., and [[mixed martial arts]] promotion The Score Fighting Series.

Prior to 19 October 2012, the company also owned a 20% stake in mobile and web development firm NuLayer,<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/score-media-acquires-stake-in-nulayer/article1709760/ Score Media acquires stake in NuLayer], The Globe and Mail, 16 September 2010</ref> and various interactive properties including ''ScoreMobile'', ''ScoreMobile FC'', ''SportsTap''<ref>[http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/25069--score-media-acquires-rival-mobile-app-sportstap Score Media Acquires Rival Mobile App SportsTap™] Canadian Business 2011-05-12</ref> and ''TheScore.ca''. These properties are now owned by [[theScore Inc.]] The company also previously owned and operated [[The Score Satellite Radio]]; a satellite radio network available across North America on [[Sirius Satellite Radio]]. The station shut down on 1 September 2011.<ref>[http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/the-score-satellite-radio-is-going-off-the-air_b88304 The Score Satellite Radio Is Going Off The Air] TVNewser 2011-08-02</ref>

The company was founded in 1997 as '''Headline Media Group Inc.''' by [[Shaw Communications]] and Levy family. Shaw Media was spun off to form [[Corus Entertainment]] in September 1999 and sold 48% stake to [[Alliance Atlantis]] the following month. In February 2005, it changed its name to Score Media Inc. AAC's stake was acquired by [[Canwest]] in 2007.

==Sale to Rogers==

On 24 August 2012, reports surfaced that [[Rogers Communications]] was planning to acquire Score Media for close to $160 million.<ref name=rogers-score>{{cite web|last=Ladurantaye|first=Steve|title=Rogers Communications to acquire Score Media|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/rogers-communications-to-acquire-score-media/article4497481/|publisher=The Globe and Mail|access-date=24 August 2012}}</ref> The next day, those reports became reality when [[Rogers Media]] announced that it will acquire Score Media in a transaction valued at [[Canadian dollar|$]]167 million.

The acquisition itself closed on 19 October 2012, at which point Score Media's digital assets were spun off into another company, [[theScore Inc.]], in which Rogers Media initially retained a 10% interest. Score Media's TV properties were immediately placed into a [[blind trust]], under trustee [[Peter Viner]], pending final CRTC approval,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://corporate.thescore.com/2012/10/score-media-inc-completes-plan-of-arrangement/|title=Score Media Inc. completes plan of arrangement|author=Score Media|date=2012-10-19|access-date=2012-10-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1056217/rogers-media-completes-acquisition-of-score-media|title=Rogers Media Completes Acquisition of Score Media|author=Rogers Media|author-link=Rogers Media|date=2012-10-19|access-date=2012-10-19}}</ref> which came on 30 April 2013.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ownership/Cht78.pdf Ownership of Score Media Inc.]
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[[Category:Defunct broadcasting companies of Canada]]
[[Category:Defunct radio broadcasting companies of Canada]]
[[Category:Companies based in Toronto]]
[[Category:Mass media companies disestablished in 2013]]
[[Category:Companies formerly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange]]
[[Category:Former Corus Entertainment subsidiaries]]


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