Jean Pouliot
Pouliot was the president and CEO for the first publicly-traded Quebec broadcasting company, Télé-Capitale, and started two French language networks: TVA (co-founded with Roland Giguère of Télé-Métropole in 1971), and TQS (Télévision Quatre-Saisons) (launched in 1986).With Famous Players, he studied the feasibility of operating cable TV systems across Canada,[4] and, in 1954, he oversaw the design and launch of television stations CKCO-TV in Kitchener, Ontario, and CFCM-TV in Quebec City.[citation needed] In 1957, Pouliot became the general manager of Télévision de Québec, and launched CKMI-TV, Quebec's second private television station.[2] In 1971, Télévision de Québec expanded into radio, acquiring CHRC Limitée (CHRC-AM and CHOI-FM) and CKLM Montréal, as well as into movie production, with the purchase of Ciné-Capitale Ltée.[4] Télévision Quatre-Saisons faced a great deal of growing pains, however, with a Canadian recession depressing advertising revenue, and a difficult task winning viewers from the existing French language networks.[4] Pouliot supported a number of philanthropic causes, most notably the "Telethon of Stars",[2] first broadcast in English and French on CFCF-TV in 1977, benefiting research into children's diseases.