Privately owned by the Moffat family, the company was based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
[1] In an interview with the Free Press reporter Paul Sullivan in November 1978, Moffat CEO Ronald Moffat predicted that Canada will introduce DBS services by 1983 and will beam superstations across the country.
[1] They had 60% interest in Consumer Behavior Centre Inc. of Dallas, Texas, an advertising research subsidiary.
[1] The company owned the following media businesses in Canada and the United States:[1] In the 1990s Moffat Communications divested itself of the Winnipeg Jets and in 1996, the NHL franchise relocated to Phoenix, Arizona, United States.
Also that year, radio stations CHAM, CHAB and CFXX (formerly CKXL Calgary) were sold to Golden West Broadcasting, and CKLG and CFOX to Shaw Cablesystems.