In 1961, the company began to diversify, adding its first broadcasting asset, radio station CFCO in Chatham, Ontario.
[1] In the 1970s, M-H merged its Le Maclean French-language magazine with Actualité, and began publishing L'actualité.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the transaction, but required Rogers to divest itself of some of Maclean-Hunter's individual assets to alleviate concerns about concentration of media ownership.
The former assets of Maclean-Hunter, including Maclean's magazine, were sold by Rogers to St. Joseph Communications in March 2019.
Its previous head office was in a series of buildings along the corner of Dundas Street and University Avenue.
[6] The large plant was built near the home of Robert Earl Bales, Reeve of North York.
Shaw acquired Maclean-Hunter's share in the New Country Network, which was licensed but had not yet launched at the time of the takeover.