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Bell-Astral would have ‘monstrous’ share of French specialty revenues: Quebecor

News | 09/11/2012 10:18 pm EDT

BCE Inc.’s proposed $3.38 billion acquisition of Astral Media Inc. would give the company a “monstrous” share of subscriber revenues for French-language specialty channels and could deplete Quebec’s conventional TV networks of vital advertising revenues, Quebecor Media Inc.’s Pierre Karl Péladeau and Robert Dépatie said Tuesday.

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