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Maclean-Hunter (M-H) was a Canadian communications company, which had diversified holdings in radio, television, magazines, newspapers and cable television distribution. ==History== The company began in 1887, when brothers John Bayne Maclean and Hugh Cameron Maclean launched their first trade publication, ''Canadian Grocer & General Storekeeper''. Brother Hugh left the company in 1899 and later return to Toronto to establish his own publication firm. John B. subsequently expanded his company into other areas of publishing, launching the general interest magazine ''Maclean's'' in 1905, the business newspaper ''Financial Post'' in 1907, the lifestyle magazine ''Canadian Homes and Gardens'' in 1925, the women's magazine ''Chatelaine'' in 1928, and its French-language counterpart, ''Châtelaine'' in 1960. Horace Talmadge Hunter joined Maclean Publishing in 1903, moving up the management ranks from General Manager in 1911 to succeed John Bayne Maclean as president in 1933; in 1945 the company's name was changed to Maclean-Hunter. Hunter retired in 1952 and died in 1961. Hunter's son Donald Fleming later became president and Chairman of M-H. In 1961, the company began to diversify, adding its first broadcasting asset, radio station CFCO in Chatham, Ontario. In 1968 Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company Limited was renamed to Maclean-Hunter Limited and finally as Maclean Hunter Limited in 1981.〔http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2843000080.html〕 In the 1970s, M-H merged its ''Le Maclean'' French-language magazine with ''Actualité'', and began publishing ''L'actualité''. In 1982, the company acquired a controlling interest in Sun Media; ownership of the ''Financial Post'' was transferred to Sun Media in 1987 to facilitate the publication's expansion from a weekly to a daily newspaper. By the early 1990s, Maclean-Hunter's assets also included cable television services in 35 Ontario markets, 21 radio stations, television station CFCN in Calgary and a significant minority share in CTV. Maclean-Hunter was acquired in 1994 by Rogers Communications. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the transaction, but required Rogers to divest itself of some of Maclean-Hunter's individual assets to alleviate concerns about concentration of media ownership. Shaw Communications acquired some of the cable holdings and radio stations, Telemedia and Blackburn Radio acquired other radio stations, and the consortium of Baton Broadcasting and Electrohome acquired CFCN and the CTV shares. Sun Media was sold in an employee buyout in 1996. Maclean-Hunter also had cable holdings in the United States, which were acquired by Comcast in 1994. Maclean-Hunter lives on in the publication ''Maclean's'' magazine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maclean-Hunter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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