They were joined by CFCM-TV in Quebec City in 1964 after CFCM lost its Radio-Canada affiliation to newly-launched CBVT.

When the network was formally organized in 1971, its affiliates ran it as a cooperative, much like CTV operated for many years.

For instance, Pathonic Communications, which owned the TVA affiliates in Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières and Rimouski and provided programming to the affiliates in Rivière-du-Loup and Carleton, offered programming that was different from that offered on CFTM.

[5] TVA also owns Le Canal Nouvelles (LCN), Canada's only private French-language headline-news channel.

As well, the company owns a magazine publishing division unit, a film production and distribution house, and a number of other Internet and cable properties, many of which are often used to cross-promote TVA series and events.

The only stations with significant viewership outside Quebec were CHOT-TV of Hull (now part of Gatineau), CIMT-TV of Rivière-du-Loup and CHAU-TV of Carleton-sur-Mer.

CHOT also serves Ottawa and has been available on most cable systems in Northeastern Ontario since the early 1980s, owing to that region's large Franco-Ontarian population.

In early 2005, TVA confirmed to The Globe and Mail that it would continue to look for other expansion opportunities in English Canada, but no further purchase announcements have been made by the company.

CKXT ceased operations on November 1, 2011,[7] and the Sun News Network continued only on cable and satellite television providers until being discontinued in 2015.

The company previously operated kids' channel Yoopa from its launch in April 2010 until its demise in January 2024.