OWL Ventures

OWL Ventures, Ltd. (simply known as OWL) is an privately held Canadian holding company and venture firm. The company is based at the OWL Ventures Centre (formerly the Rogers Building) in Toronto, with secondary headquarters located at the OWL Ventures Campus in Brampton and is owned by and acts as the personal holding and investment company for American-British-Canadian media and entertainment executive Oliver Watson, which the company is named after, Oliver Watson Limited.

Among its assets include American entertainment company OWL Conte Studios, which owns a 50% stake in All3Media, OWL Media, which operates Canadian media company Global Media, and a 6% stake in Styhon Battersea, OWL Telecom, which operates Hoot, a telecom company formed from the purchase of Vodafone Ireland and Telenor Bulgaria, and OWL Sports, which owns a 75% stake in Canadian professional sports company Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, and a stake in the San Francisco Giants, an American baseball team.

List of assets owned by OWL Ventures

 * OWL Entertainment
 * OWL Content Studios
 * OWL Studioworks
 * OWL Studios New York - formerly Steiner Studios
 * OWL Studios Pennsylvania - formerly Sun Center Studios
 * 9 Channel Nine Court
 * 299 Queen Street West
 * 250 Richmond Street West
 * 33 Dundas Street East
 * 545 Lake Shore Boulevard West
 * ​OWL Ventures Centre​
 * ​Rogers Centre​
 * OWL Pictures
 * OWL Pictures America
 * SC Films - Los Angeles
 * Clover Entertainment - formerly MM2 Entertainment's New York office
 * IFC Films
 * IFC Midnight
 * Sundance Selects
 * Nash Films (formerly Nash TV Films)
 * OWL Pictures China
 * SC Films China - joint venture with Jeff Gao and Yuki Li
 * Clover Entertainment China - formerly MM2 Entertainment's Beijing and Shanghai offices
 * OWL Television
 * OWL Media Studios - division used to produce original programming for Bell Media (now Global Media)-owned networks; formerly Bell Media Original Production
 * Agincourt Productions Inc. - in-house production company
 * - 50/50 joint venture with the Tornante Company
 * Dome Productions
 * OWL Animation
 * OWL Music
 * OWL Records
 * OWL Studios Music
 * OWL Youth Music (formerly Flemkids)
 * OWL Content Distribution
 * OWL Home Entertainment
 * OWL Interactive
 * Bigben Games - video games
 * Asmodee China - board games
 * OWL Media
 * Global Media
 * (70.12%) - inherited from Styhon Battersea's acquisitions of BCE, Rogers, Quebecor and Cogeco, stake to be split and partially sold to Kasperi Salovaara and CBC
 * Global - TV network and O&O stations
 * CTV 2 - to be renamed to Global+
 * ​Citytv​ - to be merged into Global
 * Global Community - merger between and ; 50/50 joint venture with Cogeco
 * Global Communauté - formerly
 * Global News: BC 1
 * BNN Bloomberg
 * CP24
 * CTV News Channel - to be renamed Global News Channel
 * Showcase - integrated with CTV Entertainment
 * CTV Comedy Channel - to be renamed Showcase Comedy
 * CTV Drama Channel - to be renamed Showcase Drama
 * CTV Sci-Fi Channel - to be renamed Showcase Sci-Fi
 * Showcase Retro - formerly DejaView
 * CTV Life Channel - to be renamed
 * ​Omni Television​
 * Teletoon
 * Télétoon
 * Treehouse
 * V
 * Z
 * BookTelevision
 * Fashion Television
 * E! - licensed from NBCUniversal
 * MTV - licensed from ViacomCBS
 * MTV2
 * Much
 * FX Canada
 * FXX Canada
 * Canal D
 * Canal Vie
 * Investigation
 * Vrak
 * Global Media Sports - formerly
 * ​Sportsnet​
 * Global Media PPV & Movies
 * MovieTime
 * SériesPlus
 * Crave - also known as Crave 1
 * Crave 2
 * Crave 3
 * HBO Canada
 * Crave TV - streaming service
 * Movie Entertainment - magazine
 * Starz Canada - Starz 1 & 2
 * Super Écran
 * Cinépop
 * Vu! - video on demand service
 * Red Carpet Vu!
 * Venus - adult PPV (to be divested)
 * iHeartMedia Canada
 * Autohound (unknown equity interest)
 * Global Music (music publishing)
 * TheLoop.ca
 * Sympatico.ca (French-language version of TheLoop.ca)
 * Megawheels Technologies Inc. - 4% stake
 * Astral Out-of-Home
 * - a 50/50 joint venture with Liberty Global
 * Styhon Battersea (6%)
 * Viasat - Nordic countries
 * V Series & Film
 * Viasat Nature
 * Viasat History
 * Viasat Explore
 * V Film
 * V Series
 * V Sport
 * OWL Publishing
 * OWL Books
 * OWL Comics
 * OWL Audiobooks & Podcasts - formed out of Rogers Sports & Media's podcast assets
 * Frequency Podcast Network
 * Pacific Content
 * OWL Streaming Services
 * Nash (formerly Nash TV)
 * Shudder
 * Acorn (formerly Acorn TV)
 * OWL Experiences
 * OWL Sports
 * Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (75%)
 * San Francisco Giants (minority stake)
 * Montreal Canadiens (18%)
 * Toronto Blue Jays
 * OWL Parks and Resorts
 * OWL Consumer Products
 * OWL Technologies
 * DTS, Inc.
 * Nacon - formed out of a merger between Bigben Group's non-gaming businesses and Bigben Connected, integrated with the Lillen headquarters of Bigben Interactive/Nacon
 * Games.fr
 * OWL Telecom
 * Hoot
 * O2 (Ireland and Bulgaria)
 * Rogers - legally Hoot Canada
 * ​Rogers Cable​
 * Rogers Mobile - merger between Rogers Wireless​ and ​Rogers Telecom
 * OWL Drinks
 * OWL Fine Drinks
 * OWL Breweries
 * OWL Wineries
 * OWL Health
 * OWL Health Careers - medical and nursing careers, headquartered in Japan; formerly called iMAid Co Ltd, which was inherited from SB's acquisition of Poletowin Pitcrew Holdings
 * OWL Pharmaceuticals