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Shaw Media, Inc. was the television broadcasting division of Shaw Communications, created on October 27, 2010 following Shaw's acquisition of the broadcasting assets of the bankrupt CanWest Global. It owned the Global Television Network — broadcasting nationally via 13 television stations — as well as 19 specialty channels including HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, History, Showcase, Slice, National Geographic Channel, and Lifetime Canada. On April 1, 2016, Corus Entertainment completed its $2.65 billion acquisition of Shaw Media, subsequently renaming the entity Corus Media Holdings, Inc.; the Shaw Media brand is now defunct.