Ivan Fecan/ˈfɛtsæn/ is a Canadian media executive producer and philanthropist. Fecan was the president and chief executive officer of Baton Broadcasting and its successor CTVglobemedia from 1996 to 2011, and chief executive officer of the CTV Television Network from late 1998 to 2011.[1]
Fecan left CBC and joined Baton Broadcasting in January 1994 as senior group vice-president, and became executive vice-president and chief operating officer in January 1995. Fecan became president and chief executive officer of Baton in 1996. Fecan built Baton into a cross-Canada broadcasting powerhouse by purchasing or launching CTV affiliates in nearly every major market in the country (thus enabling itself to be renamed CTV Inc.) The new CTV organization in 1999 purchased Netstar Communications, owners of TSN. This made CTV an important player in Canada's cable television industry.
In 2000, CTV was purchased by Bell Canada Enterprises, which promptly merged CTV with The Globe and Mail to form Bell Globemedia, later renamed CTVglobemedia, of which Fecan became president and chief executive officer. Although Bell Canada Enterprises sold its controlling interest in the company in 2006, it then bought out the company's broadcasting assets entirely in 2011, at which point Fecan exited. He is now an investor and executive chair of Thunderbird Films. He is also the producer and executive producer of the hit Canadian sitcom Kim's Convenience.[3] On September 5, 2017, Fecan was appointed Interim chief executive officer of Thunderbird, in addition to his other roles there.[4][5]
Fecan is the recipient of the American Marketing Association Hall of Legends.[11] Fecan was named person of the year by entertainment industry magazine Playback in 2006, person of the decade in 2011,[12] and inducted into the Playback Hall of Fame in May 2016.[13]
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