Selkirk Communications

Selkirk Communications
IndustryBroadcasting
PredecessorTaylor, Pearson & Carson
Founded1959; 65 years ago (1959)
Defunct1989 (1989)
Fate
  • TV properties sold to WIC
  • Most radio properties sold to Rogers Communications
  • Cable holdings and one radio station retained by Maclean-Hunter
OwnerMaclean-Hunter (from 1988)

Selkirk Communications was a Canadian radio and television broadcasting company, which operated from 1959 to 1989. Evolving out of Taylor, Pearson & Carson, a local broadcaster in Vancouver founded in 1934, the company grew to own 14 radio stations, six television stations (three wholly owned and three partially owned) and cable television holdings across Canada and the world.

Selkirk was eventually acquired by Maclean-Hunter in 1988. When the sale was finalized the following year, Maclean-Hunter sold almost all of the company's broadcast properties to WIC and Rogers Communications, retaining ownership only of Selkirk's cable holdings and one radio station. Maclean-Hunter was itself acquired by Rogers in 1994.