CTV Specialty Television Inc. is a Canadian media company that is a joint venture between Bell Media subsidiary of BCE Inc. (also known as Bell Canada Enterprises, the owner of telecommunications company Bell Canada) and ESPN, LLC, a joint venture of The Walt Disney Company (72%; via ABC Inc.), Hearst Communications (18%), and the National Football League (10%), that operates a number of specialty channels such as The Sports Network (TSN) and USA Network.
The company was formed in 1984 as Labatt Communications, Inc. by brewer John Labatt Ltd.; but long after its acquisition by Interbrew in 1995, LCI was sold to four local investors and ESPN Inc. in 1996 which changed the name of the company to NetStar Communications Inc. NetStar was then acquired by CTV Inc. in 2000 and later merged with Bell Canada alongside The Globe and Mail to form Bell Globemedia and renamed to its current entity afterwards.