CUC Broadcasting

The company's Trillium Cable division served several markets in Ontario, including Scarborough, Windsor, Barrie, Pickering, Smiths Falls, Perth, Chatham and Leamington, and was also a minority investor in other smaller cable companies, including Northern Cable in Northern Ontario, UMG (Upper Midlands Group) Cable in Brockville, Cobourg and Port Hope, and several local systems in The Midlands region of England. CUC's broadcasting holdings included radio stations CKLW and CKEZ in Windsor, and a 25 per cent founding stake in YTV, which had increased to 34 per cent by the company's dissolution in 1995. Through its share in Northern Cable, it also held a stake in that company's radio and television subsidiary Mid-Canada Communications In addition, the company held a significant minority stake in the magazine Toronto Life. ==Acquisition==

Conway's death in 1988 made the company a strong takeover target, First announced in April 1994, the deal was reached as part of a bidding war which also saw a competing offer from Cogeco. The purchase received CRTC approval in February 1995. The merger of CUC's 420,000 subscribers with Shaw's, along with an additional 102,000 subscribers added from Shaw's simultaneous purchase of Classicomm, made Shaw the second largest cable company in Canada. Shortly after the takeover was approved, Shaw cut 251 jobs from Trillium in the engineering, customer service and finance departments, most of Trillium's and UMG's former markets are now served by Cogeco, with Scarborough and Barrie now being served by Rogers Cable. ==References==