Rogers Media is expanding its television presence as the firm said Monday it is buying 10 stations and channels from CTVglobemedia Inc. for $137.5 million.

The stations and channels are held in trust for CHUM Ltd. CTVglobemedia said it would sell the assets as part of its takeover of CHUM.

The sale includes:

• A-Channel stations in Barrie, Ottawa, London, Windsor, Wingham and Victoria.
• CKX Television, an over-the-air CBC affiliate in Brandon.
• ACCESS Alberta, an educational service.
• CLT (Canadian Learning Television).
• SexTV, a digital specialty channel.

The Rogers-CTVglobemedia deal must be approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

The CRTC is also due to begin hearings on April 30 on the CHUM-CTVglobemedia deal. The federal competition bureau has already cleared the CHUM-CTVglobemedia merger.

Rogers Media is a unit of Rogers Communications Inc.

CTVglobemedia owns the CTV television network, including 21 stations and 15 specialty channels, and the Globe and Mail newspaper.