# CF Cable TV

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{{Short description|Canadian cable company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = CF Cable TV
| logo = CF Cable tv logo.jpg
| logo_size = 200px
| industry = [Telecommunication](/source/Telecommunication)s
| fate = Sold to [Vidéotron](/source/Vid%C3%A9otron) in 1997
| founded = 1982
| defunct = 1997
| hq_location = [Montreal](/source/Montreal), [Quebec](/source/Quebec)
| key_people = [Jean Pouliot](/source/Jean_Pouliot) (owner)
| products = [Cable television](/source/Cable_television)
}}
'''CF Cable TV''' was a Canadian cable company in the 1980s and 1990s. Owned by [Jean Pouliot](/source/Jean_Pouliot), a businessman in [Montreal](/source/Montreal), [Quebec](/source/Quebec) whose holdings also included [CFCF-TV](/source/CFCF-TV)<ref name=issue>"CFCF issue is proving attractive to investors". ''[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)'', June 18, 1985.</ref> and the [TQS](/source/TQS) television network, CF Cable TV served parts of Montreal, [Laval](/source/Laval%2C_Quebec) and western suburbs on the [Island of Montreal](/source/Island_of_Montreal).<ref name=issue />

==History==
The company was established in 1982, when Pouliot acquired Cable TV Inc. from Starlaw Investments for a purchase price of $11.4 million.<ref>"CFCF defends bid for cable". ''[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)'', July 4, 1981.</ref>

The company expanded significantly in 1993, acquiring '''Télécâble Laurentien''' in the [Outaouais](/source/Outaouais) region of Quebec and the Ottawa suburb of [Clarence-Rockland](/source/Clarence-Rockland) in [Ontario](/source/Ontario),<ref>[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1993/DB93-579.HTM CRTC Decision 93-579]. [Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission](/source/Canadian_Radio-Television_and_Telecommunications_Commission), September 3, 1993.</ref> and [Northern Cable](/source/Northern_Cable) in [Northern Ontario](/source/Northern_Ontario).<ref name=northern>"CFCF about to join cable giants: Planned purchase of Sudbury company will make Montreal firm fifth largest". ''[The Globe and Mail](/source/The_Globe_and_Mail)'', September 30, 1993.</ref> The deals made CF Cable TV the fifth-largest cable operator in Canada.<ref name=northern/> Both Laurentien and Northern continued to operate as separate divisions of the company rather than being folded into the CF Cable TV branding.

In 1997, Pouliot sold CF Cable TV's parent company, CFCF Inc., to [Vidéotron](/source/Vid%C3%A9otron).<ref>[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1997/DB97-84.HTM CRTC Decision 97-84]. [Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission](/source/Canadian_Radio-television_and_Telecommunications_Commission), February 27, 1997.</ref> Videotron sold the Northern Cable division to [Regional Cablesystems](/source/Persona_Communications) in 1998,<ref>[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1998/DB98-452.HTM CRTC Decision 98-452]. [Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission](/source/Canadian_Radio-television_and_Telecommunications_Commission), September 25, 1998.</ref> but still retained ownership of the Montreal and Outaouais divisions.

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