In June 1957, Henri Audet (1918-2012) left the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), became president and managing director of Télévision St. Maurice Inc., and was awarded a broadcasting license by the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) to operate a television station in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. The call sign would be CKTM-TV, and it would become an affiliate of the CBC French-language network Société Radio-Canada (SRC). Télévision St. Maurice Inc"." was later renamed Cogéco Radio-Télévision Inc".", a subsidiary of Cogeco Inc. He would also become chairman and president of La Belle Vision Inc".", which was in 1972, Cogeco's first acquisition. Henri Audet was chairman and CEO of Cogeco Inc. between 1976 and 1993, and later in the year 1996, was named President Emeritus of Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Cable Inc.