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Good News!

Over the last weeks, TC Media has been winning awards at a number of industry

competitions, and its flagship brands have been outperforming in the marketplace. So we

want to share the good news and above all thank you for your collaboration and exceptional

work over the past year!

"OF THE YEAR" MATERIAL!

First, we are very proud to announce that TC Media has been named one of the 10 finalists in the Media

Player of the Year competition organized by Marketing magazine. Every year this trade publication invites

companies to submit applications in three categories: Media Player of the Year, Agency of the Year and

Marketer of the Year. Several of our initiatives and projects have given us an edge and put us among the

finalists: the launch of mobile apps such as the remote payment solution for Stationnement de Montréal (P$

Mobile Service) and On the Table, the higher newsstand sales of a number of our magazines, such as

Canadian Living (up 8.2%) and Elle Canada (up 2.7%), as well as our new television production house,

TC Media Production. (Source: ABC June 2012)

The name of winning company will be announced in January 2013.

Read the article in Marketing about our nomination.

2012 MOBIZ AWARDS

On November 15th, our mobile solutions team won the 2012 Mobiz-Ingenio Award in

the "Business – Society" category for the new P$ Mobile Service remote payment

solution for Stationnement de Montréal. Since the app was launched in June 2012,

more than 76,000 accounts have been opened, generating an average of 28,000

transactions per week. This new service for Montreal motorists is clearly a solution that

stands out because of its impact on the services and information provided to

consumers.

2012 PEARL AWARDS

For a number of years the Custom Content Council has organized this contest to reward excellence in

custom content. This year, Totem ranked in three categories, winning a silver and two bronzes:

EDITORIAL: Best Overall Editorial, More than 250,000

BRONZE: Acura Style, Totem Brand Stories (Acura Division/American Honda Motor Co., Inc.)

DESIGN: Best Overall Design, More than 50,000

Tied for BRONZE: Acura Style, Totem Brand Stories (Acura Division/American Honda Motor Co., Inc.)

DESIGN: Best Use of Photography, More than 250,000

SILVER: Acura Style, Totem Brand Stories (Acura Division/American Honda Motor Co., Inc.)

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NEW COMSCORE RECORD

Our site canadianliving.com had remarkable success in

October, moving from 16th to 14th position in the Lifestyle

category of ComScore ranking. It even set a new ComScore

record by attracting 1.307 million unique visitors, which

doesn’t include visitors to the website’s mobile platform. This

is an increase of more than 300,000 unique visitors over

September, and puts canadianliving.com up there with sites

like Sympatico.ca, Globe Life, Martha Stewart, Chatelaine

and Pop Sugar. Canadianliving.com is the most-visited

women’s website in its category.

MEDIA INNOVATION AWARDS (MIA)

On November 16th, Marketing magazine also announced the winners of the MIA for innovative and original

advertisers, agencies and media companies. We learned that our publications did extremely well in two

separate categories and won three awards:

BEST IN NEWSPAPER

GOLD: Fédération des producteurs de lait du Québec and Touché! PHD for “Comforting Edition" – Metro Newspaper

BEST IN MAGAZINE – No GOLD was awarded.

SILVER: Kraft Canada and Starcom MediaVest Group for “Premium Plus – Soup Loves Premium Plus” – Initiative developed through our brands: Coup de pouce, Canadian Living, Style at Home, Décormag and Canadian Gardening

BRONZE: Coty Canada and OMD pour “Coty – Sally Hansen Magnetic” – ELLE Canada

Check out the link below to see the magazines winning entries.

https://transcontinentalmediasalespromotions.sharefile.com/d/s869c3c5c96f4b1eb

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2012 COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARDS Our community papers also won recognition in this prestigious competition which pays tribute to the

excellence and top-notch work of professionals in the Quebec community press. In all, we received 15

awards in 11 different categories. A list of the winners is appended to this release.

CANADIAN ONLINE PUBLISHING AWARDS (COPA)

The 2012 COPA Awards were held in Toronto in October 2012. Having earned a total of 17 nominations, we

won awards in five categories. First, we won gold in the Best data visualization category with The great

Canadian food map: An interactive infographic, an interactive map published on canadianliving.com that

identifies the most popular food products by province or territory. The mobile app for TheHockeyNews.com

won once again, obtaining Silver in the Best smartphone app category. The site ELLEQuébec.com also

won Silver, this time for its video Les coulisses du reportage mode Icônes, in the Best video or multimedia

feature category. StyleatHome.com came second in two categories, Best e-newsletter and Best use of

social media.

2012 DIGI AWARDS

Lastly our new app On the Table/Quoi Manger has been nominated in the Best

Tablet App category in the 2012 Digi Awards. Quite the achievement after only

six months! The winners will be announced on December 4th. Stay tuned!

TC Media thanks and congratulates everyone who worked directly or indirectly on these projects. These

awards show the success of our efforts to work more closely together in order to excel in the marketplace.

Great job!

Info-media

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2012 COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AWARDS

Community Action

3rd position: Être bénévole... En prison, Geneviève Blais, L'Action Week-end

Municipal

1st position: Quand une municipalité repêche dans la cour du voisin, Eric Patenaude, L'Avenir & Des Rivières

Food

1st position: Une transformation qui passe par l'agriculture, Marie-Josée Parent, Le Canada Français

Finance

3rd position: Silence, on tourne à Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu!, Marie-Pier Gagnon, Le Canada Français

Environment

2nd position: Les éoliennes, un sujet qui divise plus que jamais, Valérie Legault, Le Canada Français

Sports and Recreation

3rd position: Triporteurs : un « joyeux problème », Hélène Ruel, La Nouvelle-Union (Dimanche)

Claude-et-Jeannine-Masson

1st position: En route vers son centième marathon, Richard Hamel, Le Canada Français

Jean-Vigneault

1st position: On aimerait en rire mais…, Gilles Lévesque, Le Canada Français

3rd position: «The show must go on», André Nadeau, L'Action Week-end

Photography - Portrait

1st position: Toujours debout, Rémy Boily, Le Canada Français

Photography - Reporting

1st position: Dommage pare-à-pluie, Rémy Boily, Le Canada Français

3rd position: « À s'y méprendre », Pierre-Olivier Girard, Le Reflet du Lac

Advertising

1st position: Chéri, je me sens rajeunir, Marie-Josée Hudon, L'Avantage Votre Journal

2nd position ex-æquo : Grande vente sous la tente, Renée Geneau, L'Avantage Votre Journal

3rd position: Série d'autopromotions «Ajoutez de la couleur», Valérie LeBlanc, Le Canada Français