Alliance Atlantis
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. (formerly traded as TSX:AAC) was a Toronto-based media company that operated primarily as a specialty service operator in Canada. Alliance Atlantis also had offices in Halifax, Los Angeles, London, Dublin, Madrid, Barcelona, Shannon and Sydney.
Alliance Atlantis was acquired by Canwest Global Communications and an affiliate of Goldman Sachs in 2007. The movie business now operates independently as Alliance Films, headquartered in Montreal, and the international television distribution businesses is now owned by Echo Bridge Entertainment.
All of the former Alliance Atlantis specialty networks are now owned by Shaw Communications through its Shaw Media Division (formely CW Media) as of October 27, 2010.
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