zum industry media founded toronto ontario 2007 founder moses znaimer headquarters toronto ontario products broadcasting advertising publishing television production website www.zoomermedia.ca zoomermedia limited is a group of canadian media operations controlled by moses znaimer . 1 according to znaimer these media outlets primarily target what he calls zoomers or baby boomers with zip defined as people in their 50s 60s and 70s who want to remain socially and culturally engaged and active . 2 zoomermedia was formed in december 2007 following znaimer s acquisition and merger of kemur publishing publishers of carp magazine and website operator fifty plus.net international . 3 it provides marketing membership and other services to carp formerly the canadian association of retired persons of which znaimer serves as executive director and publishes zoomer magazine the renamed carp magazine . the company also operates several internet properties including a portal and a social networking site all targeted to older adult audiences . in addition znaimer previously personally owned a variety of other assets through his privately held company mz media that were also unofficially considered part of the zoomermedia group . these included southern ontario classical music radio stations cfmz fm and cfmx fm classical 96 and classical 103 respectively adult standards station cfzm toronto am 740 and the annual ideacity conference . in june 2009 zoomermedia limited announced a deal to acquire the broadcasting assets of s vox which includes conventional stations chnu tv and ciit tv along with specialty channels visiontv and one the body mind & spirit channel for 25 million . 4 as part of the transaction and a related private placement znaimer also merged mz media into zoomermedia . following the transactions which required the approval of minority shareholders and the canadian radio television and telecommunications commission crtc znaimer owns 66 % of the combined company and insurance company fairfax financial owns 28 % . 5 all of these transactions were completed on june 30 2010 . 6 in december 2014 zoomermedia was reportedly in talks with quebecor to acquire the sun news network . 7 contents 1 assets 1.1 conventional television stations 1.2 specialty channels 1.3 radio 1.4 magazines 1.5 digital 1.6 other assets 2 references 3 external links assets edit conventional television stations edit main article joytv zoomermedia s two conventional stations were part of a television system known as joytv until august 2013 when ciit was rebranded as hope tv and dropped all non secular programming . as joytv they were licensed as religious television stations that air religious based programs in addition to other family friendly and entertainment programs . both were previously owned by s vox . they had previously been a part of the omni television system having been previously owned by trinity television before the sale to rogers . rogers sold the two stations to s vox on march 31 2008 . chnu tv vancouver british columbia joytv ciit tv winnipeg manitoba hope tv specialty channels edit visiontv ; airing multi faith and multi cultural programming one ; programming on natural health personal growth and holistic lifestyles . radio edit cfmz fm toronto ontario classical 96 cfzm toronto ontario zoomer radio 740am cfmx fm cobourg ontario classical 103 cfmo fm collingwood ontario 102.9 new classical station airdate tba 8 magazines edit zoomer magazine digital edit everythingzoomer.com zoomers.ca zoomersingles.com other assets edit 64 jefferson avenue commercial building within liberty village in toronto ontario mztv museum of television mztv production & distribution ideacity conference marketing membership operations of carp zoomer management limited zoomercard zoomershow references edit zoomermedia our properties media heavyweight addresses sudbury s 45 plus crowd archived may 31 2009 at the wayback machine . . northern life may 26 2009 . media innovator moses znaimer consolidates voice for zoomer generation permanent dead link moses znaimer press release february 28 2008 spiritual tv fits moses zoomer vision . the globe and mail june 15 2009 . zoomermedia limited agrees to purchase all television assets of visiontv and 17.6 million private placement with fairfax financial holdings limited zoomermedia press release via marketwire june 15 2009 zoomermedia limited completes acquisitions and financing media mogul moses znaimer in talks to buy sun news network . globe and mail . december 10 2014 . retrieved december 10 2014 . broadcasting decision crtc 2012 123 external links edit zoomermedia v t e zoomermedia corporate directors moses znaimer broadcast television chnu fraser valley ciit winnipeg specialty channels one visiontv radio stations cfmx fm cfmz fm cfmo fm cfzm retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zoomermedia & oldid 739882930 categories zoomermediacompanies listed on the tsx venture exchangecompanies based in torontocompanies established in 2008television broadcasting companies of canadahidden categories articles with wayback machine linksall articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from july 2016articles with permanently dead external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 17 september 2016 at 17 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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