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on February 19, 2015 in World News

Sun News Network received 11th-hour bid from Leonard Asper

Sun News Network received 11th-hour bid from Leonard Asper before it was shut down Hours before the lights went out for the final time last Friday at the Sun News Network, one man was making an 11th-hour bid to keep the struggling TV station from going dark. Leonard Asper, whose family built, and later lost, the Canwest Global Communications Corp. empire, had scrambled a last-ditch effort to buy the conservative all-news channel last week, sources confirmed to the Financial Post. That was less than 72 hours before its owner, Quebecor Media, officially pulled the plug on Sun Media Corp. on… View Article

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