Henri Audet, an electrical engineer who founded Quebec-based Cogeco cable and media business, has died at age 94.
Audet began what has become Canada's fourth-largest cable company and one of Quebec's largest media companies in 1957 with a TV station in Trois-Rivieres, Que.
His son, Louis Audet, now heads the business, which had consolidated revenue of $1.4 billion in fiscal 2012 and 3,500 employees in Ontario and Quebec. Control of Cogeco Inc., Cogeco Cable Inc. and other subsidiaries remain controlled by the Audet family.
Henri Audet began his career as an engineer in 1945 with the CBC. He was a member of a committee in 1949 that studied the development of foreign television in preparation for TV in Canada.
