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| | Sat-ND, 15.9.96 |
 | | Pelmorex operates The Weather Network (TWN) and MeteoMedia, all-weather specialty television services in English and French respectively, which are distributed to 8 million cable subscribers, or 95% of the Canadian cable market. |
 | | Additionally, Pelmorex International has been aggressively expanding international operations and currently has weather programming joint ventures in France (La Chaîne Météo), the United Kingdom (The Weather Network UK) and Italy (The Weather Network Italy) representing about 1.5 million cable and satellite direct-to-home subscribers. |
 | | "Pelmorex received an unsolicited offer from Landmark Communications (which operates The Weather Channel in the U.S.)," said Lawrence Flinn, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of UVSGA. |
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