Edgar Miles Bronfman, Jr. (born May 16, 1955), formerly CEO of Seagram and vice-chairman of Vivendi Universal, has been CEO of Warner Music since 2004. He is the son of Edgar Miles Bronfman and the grandson of Samuel Bronfman, one of the most wealthy and influential Jewish families in Canada. The Bronfman family gained its fortunes through the Seagram Company, an alcohol distilling company, but Edgar Jr.

James (Jimmy) Allen Pattison, CM, OBC, (born October 1, 1928 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Vancouver-based entrepreneur who is the chairman, president, CEO, and sole owner of the Jim Pattison Group. His company, the third largest privately held company in Canada owns numerous car dealerships, Overwaitea Foods and Save-On-Foods, Ripley's Believe it or Not, and radio & TV stations in British Columbia and Alberta.

Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former financier and newspaper magnate who was convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice on 13 July 2007. He has written several biographies, including one about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Black is Canadian-born but publicly renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001 in order to become a life peer in the British House of Lords.

Gerald W. Schwartz, born c.1940 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian businessman. He received his B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Manitoba where he became an active brother of the Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity. He later received an MBA degree from Harvard University in 1970. In 1977 he co-founded CanWest Global Communications Inc, followed by Onex Corporation in 1983. He has been a director of Scotiabank since 1999.

Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers, Jr., OC, BA, LL.B, D.Sc (born May 27, 1933 in Toronto, Ontario) is the President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. His father Edward S. Rogers, Sr. is regarded as the founder of the company, although the radio station that he founded is now owned by competitor Standard Radio. Educated at Upper Canada College, where he was a member of Seaton's House, Rogers graduated from Trinity College, at the University of Toronto, …

Harold Greenberg (January 11, 1930 - July 1, 1996) was a Canadian film producer. Born in Montreal, Greenberg began working in a second-hand camera store when he was thirteen. He set up his own film and photography company and made a fortune by obtaining the exclusive rights to footage from Expo 67 in Montreal. In 1973 he acquired Astral Communications and it became one of the leading film production companies in Canada, producing such films as "Porky's", …

Jack Kent Cooke (25 October, 1912 - 6 April, 1997) was a Canadian-American entrepreneur who became one of the most widely-known executives in North American professional sports. He owned the Washington Redskins (NFL), the Los Angeles Lakers (NBA), and the Los Angeles Kings (NHL), and built the The Forum in Inglewood, California.

Allan Waters (born August 11, 1921, died December 3, 2005) was a Canadian businessman and media icon. Waters was one of the founders of CHUM Limited, a Canadian media corporation. Waters worked in a drug company and quit in 1954 and with partner Jerry Grafstein purchased a then money-losing station, 1050 CHUM. From this small humble station, Waters built his media empire. Getting ideas from a visit to Florida, Waters returned to Toronto and introduced the CHUM Chart, …

F. Baxter Ricard (1905 - 1993) was a pioneering Canadian media proprietor. In 1947, Ricard obtained a radio licence to establish CHNO in Sudbury, Ontario, the first bilingual radio station in Canada outside of Quebec. Ten years later, in 1957, he became the first radio broadcaster in Canada licensed to operate two AM stations in the same city. CHNO became an all-English station, and Ricard's new CFBR became the new French outlet.

J. Conrad Lavigne was a pioneering Canadian media proprietor. Born in Chénéville, Quebec, Lavigne was raised in Cochrane, Ontario. He joined the Canadian Forces in 1942 and fought in World War II. When he returned to Canada following the war, he settled in Kirkland Lake, where he purchased the Prince George Hotel, working as joint owner from 1946 to 1948, then owner from 1948 to 1950 and then became a radio host for CJKL.

Geoffrey William Stirling (born St. John's, 1921) is the owner of a number of media outlets in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador - specifically CJON-TV, the province's dominant television station; radio station CHOZ-FM; and "The Newfoundland Herald", a weekly news and TV listings magazine.

Pierre Karl Péladeau is the president and CEO of Quebecor Media Inc. and the principal shareholder of parent company Quebecor Inc. He was educated in Montreal and Paris. He holds a degree in philosophy from Université du Québec à Montréal and a law degree from Université de Montréal. He was called to the Québec Bar in 1988. Mr. Péladeau is the son of the Quebecor founder Pierre Péladeau and joined his father’s management team at an early age.

David Asper was born in 1958 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. David Asper is a Canadian businessman and lawyer. He is currently the Executive Vice President of the Canadian media company CanWest Global Communications Corp. He is also Chairman of the National Post newspaper. Asper is the eldest son of the late Izzy Asper, founder of CanWest Global. He is the brother of Leonard Asper, current president of CanWest Global.

John White Hughes Bassett, PC, OC, O.Ont (August 25, 1915 - April 27, 1998) was a Canadian publisher and media baron. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he was the son of John Bassett (1886-1958), publisher of the "Montreal Gazette", and Margaret Avery. Bassett attended Ashbury College and graduated from Bishop's University with a BA in 1936. He became a reporter for the Toronto "Globe and Mail".

Jerahmiel S. (Jerry) Grafstein (born January 2 1935) is a Canadian Senator and lawyer. He is married to Carole (nee Sniderman) and has two children, Laurence Stephen and Michael Kevin. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario and University of Toronto Law School, in 1954, Grafstein and Allan Waters co-founded 1050 CHUM from a floundering station in Toronto and built the CHUM media empire.

J. R. Shaw (born 1934 in Brigden, Ontario) is a Canadian businessman. He is the executive chairman of Shaw Communications. Shaw is the father of Jim Shaw, current chief executive officer of Shaw Communications, and of Bradley S. Shaw, a senior vice president of the company. Shaw holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Michigan State University. He has received several honorary degrees, including ones from the University of Alberta, University of Calgary, …

David Kenneth Roy Thomson, 3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet (born 12 June 1957) is a Canadian businessman. He is the son of the late Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet and his siblings are actress Taylor Thomson and Peter Thomson. David Thomson has been the Chairman of The Thomson Corporation since 2002. He currently lives in Toronto, Canada.

Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet (September 1, 1923 - June 12 2006) was a Canadian businessman and art collector who, at the time of his death, was the richest person in Canada, and the ninth richest person in the world, according to Forbes.com, with assets of approximately US $19.6 billion.

Johnny Barbalinardo Lombardi, C.M., O.Ont. (December 4, 1915 - March 18, 2002) was a pioneer of multicultural broadcasting in Canada. The son of Italian immigrants, Lombardi was born in the Little Italy section of Toronto. He was lead trumpet player for a popular Ontario big band during the 1930s, and also served in the Canadian Army in World War II and received many decorations and honors.

Sir Roy Herbert Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, GBE, D.Litt, D.C.L, LL.D, L.H.D. (June 5, 1894 - August 4, 1976) was a newspaper proprietor and media entrepreneur. Thomson was born in Toronto, the son of Herbert Thomson, an Ontario barber. Herbert Thomson was a telegraphist turned barber at the Grosvenor Hotel in Toronto and married English born Alice Coombs. He was born in Toronto to Hugh Thomson and Mary Nichol Sylvester.

Ron Waters is a director and Vice President of the Toronto-based media group CHUM Limited. He is the son of late CHUM co-founder Allan Waters and brother of James Waters.

Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien was a Canadian media proprietor, who was chairman and CEO of Telemedia. He founded the company in 1968, and went on to acquire a number of radio stations in Quebec and Ontario, and launched magazines such as "Canadian Living", "Harrowsmith" and the Canadian editions of "ELLE" and "TV Guide". He was educated at the Université de Montréal, obtaining a bachelor of arts in 1952, and at Harvard University, …

François Labbé is a pioneering Canadian mass media owner from Thetford Mines, Quebec, who started the first commercial French language radio network in Canada, the Réseau des Appalaches or Appalachian Network, in 1972. Born in Thetford Mines in 1928, the son of former Member of Parliament and Thetford Mines mayor Tancrède Labbé, François Labbé acquired CKLD in Thetford Mines in 1959. In 1968, he founded CKFL (the "F" and the "L" standing for his initials), …

Frank A. Griffiths (December 17, 1916 - April 7, 1994) was a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada media mogul through his company, Western International Communications Ltd. (WIC). Frank Griiffiths was born in Burnaby, British Columbia. In 1956, along with Walter Stewart Owen, he acquired New Westminster radio station CKNW and later established the Western Broadcasting Company Ltd. (forerunner of WIC) as the station's parent company.

James (Jim) A. Waters is Chairman of the Toronto-based media group CHUM Limited. He replaced his father, co-founder Allan Waters in late 2005. He was named Director in 1994 and Executive Vice President in 2000. His brother Ron Waters is also a member of the CHUM board of directors.

Pierre Péladeau was a Canadian businessman. He was the founder of Quebecor Inc., a Canadian media company centered in the province of Quebec. Péladeau was born in Outremont, Quebec (now part of Montreal) in 1925. He completed a degree from the Université de Montréal, and in 1950 completed a law degree at McGill University. He founded Quebecor from a small group of weekly entertainment papers and French-language editions of American tabloids.

Suzanne Rochon-Burnett was a Canadian Métis business woman. Born in St. Adèle, Quebec, she was the first aboriginal person in Canada to own and operate a private commercial radio station, Welland, Ontario's SPIRIT 91.7 (now CIXL-FM). In 1965, she married Gordon W. Burnett. They had one child, Michèle-Élise. Her lifetime achievements are numerous. Communication and social causes were her driving force.

William (Bill) Craig is a Canadian broadcaster ("not" affiliated with the Canadian company Craig Media). Craig began his career as a researcher for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's "This Hour Has Seven Days". He subsequently joined the programming departments at the CBC, TVOntario and Rogers Cable. He was also a policy analyst for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in the 1970s.

Harold R. Steele is the CEO and majority shareholder in Newfoundland Capital Corporation and subsidiary Newcap Broadcasting. Steele a former navy officer of 24 years began working as vice-president of marketing for Eastern Provincial Airways and took control of the airline in the mid 1970s. In 1972 he started Newfoundland Capital Corporation. Steele has been its president since the company’s inception, and then in May 1993 he became chairman and chief executive officer.

Edward A. Rawlinson was a Canadian businessman. Born in Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, Rawlinson became the youngest chartered accountant in Canada in 1934. During the Second World War he was manager of British Commonwealth Air Training Plan flying school in Prince Albert. In 1946 Rawlinson bought CKBI radio station in Prince Albert and in 1958 he established CKBI-TV. He subsequently acquired radio stations in a number of other centres in Saskatchewan including Regina, …