Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc.

Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. offers broadcasting, creation, and distribution of filmed entertainment content. It operates in three segments: broadcasting, entertainment, and motion picture distribution. The broadcasting segment owns and operates Canadian specialty channels that include showcase, slice, history television, HGTV Canada, food network Canada, showcase action, showcase diva, national geographic channel, BBC Canada, BBC kids, discovery health channel, IFC Canada, and fine living. This segment also has an interest in two Canadian French-language television channels and English-language channels. The entertainment segment co-owns and co-produces the CSI franchise in partnership with CBS productions. It also distributes the CSI franchise in territories outside the United States. In addition, this segment acquires and distributes television programs, as well as licenses its entertainment library of titles representing programming rights to broadcasters, distributors and other users worldwide. The motion picture distribution segment distributes motion pictures for theatrical release in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain. It also licenses rights to motion pictures and television programs to conventional and broadcasters; sells and rents DVDs of motion pictures and made-for-television programming; and exhibits motion pictures through its cinemas. The company was formerly known as Alliance Communications Corporation and changed its name to Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. in September 1998. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Toronto, Canada with additional offices in Montreal, Canada; Los Angeles, California; London, United Kingdom; Dublin and Shannon, Ireland; Madrid and Barcelona, Spain; and Sydney, Australia. As of August 15, 2007, Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. operates as a subsidiary of 2737469 Canada Inc..