The $3.4B deal, which includes debt, is one of the largest media mergers Canada has ever seen — and will significantly strengthen BCE’s clout in Quebec. With Astral, Canada’s top telecom company will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TORONTO (AP) -- Canadian broadcasting and advertising company Astral Media Inc. said Friday that it is still talking with BCE Inc.

In a better, more market-driven world, BCE would have been given the chance to be spectacularly wrong — or right In its limited and superficial analysis of the deal, the CRTC said “A transaction of ...

Astral Media is reworking a friendly takeover by telecom giant Bell that's expected to see the Montreal company sell off some broadcast assets to win regulatory approval. The CRTC killed the ...

BCE Inc.’s planned purchase of Astral Media Inc. should support a higher dividend for the telecom giant, but one analyst believes it will likely mean an end to its share buybacks. UBS analyst Phillip ...

TORONTO, June 5 (Reuters) - BCE Inc, Canada's largest telecom company, is confident it will win regulatory approval for its proposed acquisition of Astral Media Inc and said it sees plenty of interest ...

Shareholders of Astral Media Inc signed off on telecom company BCE Inc’s acquisition of the Montreal-based content provider on Thursday, leaving only regulatory hurdles in the way of the $3 billion ...

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(AP)—Canadian broadcasting and advertising company Astral Media Inc. said Friday that it is still talking with BCE Inc. in the hopes of finding a way to have the friendly takeover offer by the telecom ...