Telesat Corp
13.50%
1,880,221
1845840
879512309
Dec 16, 2024
Dec 18, 2024, 04:06 PM
Reporting Persons (9)
| Name | Type | % of Class | Aggregate | Sole Voting | Shared Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GAMCO Asset Management Inc. | Investment Adviser | 13.50% | 1,880,221 | 1,827,121 | 0 |
| GABELLI FUNDS LLC | CO | 5.50% | 772,120 | 772,120 | 0 |
| GABELLI & Co INVESTMENT ADVISERS, INC. | Investment Adviser | 0.60% | 89,711 | 89,711 | 0 |
| GABELLI FOUNDATION, INC. | Other | 0.40% | 59,000 | 59,000 | 0 |
| MJG ASSOCIATES, INC. | CO | 0.20% | 29,119 | 29,119 | 0 |
| Associated Capital Group, Inc. | Holding Company | 0.10% | 11,100 | 11,100 | 0 |
| GGCP, INC. | CO | 0.10% | 10,000 | 10,000 | 0 |
| GABELLI MARIO J | Individual | 0.00% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GAMCO INVESTORS, INC. ET AL | Holding Company | 0.00% | 1,000 | 1,000 | 0 |
Disclosure Items (3)
Class A common and Class B variable voting shares, no par value per share
Telesat Corp
160 ELGIN ST, OTTAWA, A6, K2P 2P7
This statement is being filed by one or more of the following persons: GGCP, Inc. (GGCP), GGCP Holdings LLC (GGCP Holdings), GAMCO Investors, Inc. (GBL), Associated Capital Group, Inc. (AC), Gabelli Funds, LLC (Gabelli Funds), GAMCO Asset Management Inc. (GAMCO), Teton Advisors, LLC (Teton Advisors), Keeley-Teton Advisors, LLC (Keeley-Teton), Gabelli & Company Investment Advisers, Inc. (GCIA), Morgan Group Holding Co., (MGH), G.research, LLC (G.research), MJG Associates, Inc. (MJG Associates), Gabelli Securities International (Bermuda) Limited (GSIL), Gabelli Foundation, Inc. (Foundation), Mario Gabelli, LICT and CIBL. Those of the foregoing persons signing this Schedule 13D are hereinafter referred to as the Reporting Persons.
GAMCO is a New York corporation and GBL and MGH are Delaware corporations, each having its principal business office at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580. GGCP is a Wyoming corporation and AC and GCIA are Delaware corporations each having its principal business office 191 Mason Street, Greenwich, CT 06830. GGCP Holdings is a Delaware limited liability corporation having its principal business office at 191 Mason Street, Greenwich, CT 06830. G.research is a Delaware limited liability company having its principal officers at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580. Gabelli Funds is a New York limited liability company having its principal business office at One Corporate Center, Rye, New York 10580. Teton Advisors is a Delaware limited liability company having its principal place of business at 189 Mason Street, Greenwich, CT 06830. Keeley-Teton Advisors is a Delaware limited liability company having its principal place of business at 141 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604. MJG Associates is a Connecticut corporation having its principal business office at 191 Mason Street, Greenwich, CT 06830. The Foundation is a Nevada corporation having its principal offices at 165 West Liberty Street, Reno, Nevada 89501. LICT is a Delaware corporation having its principal place of business as 401 Theodore Fremd Avenue, Rye, New York 10580. CIBL, Inc. is a Delaware corporation having its principal place of business as 165 West Liberty Street, Suite 220, Reno, NV 89501.
GGCP makes investments for its own account and is the manager and a member of GGCP Holdings which is the controlling shareholder of GBL and AC. GBL, a public company whose stock is quoted on the OTCQX platform, is the parent company for a variety of companies engaged in the securities business, including certain of those named below. AC, a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, is the parent company for a variety of companies engaged in the securities business, including certain of those listed below. GAMCO, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GBL, is an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (Advisers Act). GAMCO is an investment manager providing discretionary managed account services for employee benefit plans, private investors, endowments, foundations and others. GCIA, a wholly owned subsidiary of AC, is an investment adviser registered under the Advisers Act and serves as a general partner or investment manager to limited partnerships and offshore investment companies and other accounts. As a part of its business, GCIA may purchase or sell securities for its own account. GCIA or its relying advisers, act as a general partner or investment manager of a number of funds or partnerships, including Gabelli Associates Fund, L.P., Gabelli Associates Fund II, L.P., Gabelli Associates Limited, Gabelli Associates Limited II E, Gabelli Intermediate Credit Fund L.P., GAMA Select Plus Master Fund, Ltd., GAMCO Medical Opportunities L.P., and Gabelli Multimedia Partners, L.P. G.research is a wholly owned subsidiary of MGH. G.research, is a broker-dealer registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (1934 Act), which may as a part of its business purchase and sell securities for its own account. Gabelli Funds, a wholly owned subsidiary of GBL, is a limited liability company. Gabelli Funds is an investment adviser registered under the Advisers Act which provides advisory services for The Gabelli Equity Trust Inc., The Gabelli Asset Fund, The Gabelli Growth Fund, The Gabelli Convertible and Income Securities Fund Inc., The Gabelli Value 25 Fund Inc., The Gabelli Small Cap Growth Fund, The Gabelli Equity Income Fund, The Gabelli ABC Fund, The Gabelli Global Content & Connectivity Fund, The Gabelli Gold Fund, Inc., The Gabelli Multimedia Trust Inc., The Gabelli Global Rising Income & Dividend Fund, The Gabelli Capital Asset Fund, The Gabelli International Growth Fund, Inc., The Gabelli Global Growth Fund, The Gabelli Utility Trust, The Gabelli Utilities Fund, The Gabelli Dividend Growth Fund, The Gabelli Focused Growth and Income Fund, The Comstock Capital Value Fund, The Gabelli Dividend and Income Trust, The Gabelli Global Utility & Income Trust, The GAMCO Global Gold, Natural Resources, & Income Trust, The GAMCO Natural Resources, Gold & Income Trust, The GDL Fund, Gabelli Enterprise Mergers & Acquisitions Fund, The Gabelli ESG Fund, Inc., The Gabelli International Small Cap Fund, The Gabelli Healthcare & Wellness Rx Trust, The Gabelli Global Small and Mid Cap Value Trust, Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust Plc, The Gabelli Global Financial Services Fund, The Gabelli Global Mini Mites Fund, The Gabelli Media Mogul Fund, The Gabelli Pet Parents Fund, The Gabelli U.S. Treasury Money Market Fund, Bancroft Fund Ltd. and Ellsworth Growth & Income Fund Ltd., Gabelli Growth Innovators ETF, Gabelli Love Our Planet & People ETF, Gabelli Automation ETF, Gabelli Commercial Aerospace & Defense ETF, Gabelli Financial Services Opportunities ETF (collectively, the Funds), which are registered investment companies. Gabelli Funds is also the investment adviser to The GAMCO International SICAV (sub-funds GAMCO Merger Arbitrage and GAMCO All Cap Value), a UCITS III vehicle. Teton Advisors, an investment adviser registered under the Advisers Act, provides discretionary advisory services to The TETON Westwood Mighty Mitessm Fund, The TETON Convertible Securities Fund, The Teton Westwood Balanced Fund, and The TETON Westwood Equity Fund. The TETON Westwood Mighty Mites Fund and the Teton Convertible Securities Fund are subadvised by Gabelli Funds, and their holdings are included in this filing. Keeley-Teton, an investment adviser registered under the Advisers Act, provides discretionary advisory services to The Teton Westwood Smallcap Equity Fund, The Keeley Small Cap Dividend Value Fund, The Keeley Small-Mid Cap Value Fund, and The Keeley Mid Cap Dividend Value Fund, as well as to institutional and individual clients. MJG Associates provides advisory services to private investment partnerships and offshore funds. Mario Gabelli is the sole shareholder, director and employee of MJG Associates. MJG Associates is the Investment Manager of Gabelli International Limited and Gabelli Fund, LDC. Mario J. Gabelli is the general partner of Gabelli Performance Partnership, LP. The Foundation is a private foundation. Mario Gabelli is the Chairman, a Trustee and the Investment Manager of the Foundation. Elisa M. Wilson is the President of the Foundation. LICT is a holding company with operating subsidiaries engaged primarily in the rural telephone industry. LICT actively pursues new business ventures and acquisitions. LICT makes investments in marketable securities to preserve capital and maintain liquidity for financing their business activities and acquisitions and are not engaged in the business of investing, or trading in securities. Mario J. Gabelli is the Chief Executive Officer, a director, and substantial shareholder of LICT. CIBL is a holding company with interest in telecommunications operations, primarily in the rural telephone industry. CIBL actively pursues new business ventures and acquisitions. CIBL makes investments in marketable securities to preserve capital and maintain liquidity for financing their business activities and acquisitions and are not engaged in the business of investing, or trading in securities. Mario J. Gabelli is a director, and substantial shareholder of CIBL. Mario Gabelli is the controlling stockholder, co-Chief Executive Officer and a director of GGCP and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GBL. He is the Executive Chairman of AC. Mario Gabelli is also a member of GGCP Holdings. Mario Gabelli is the controlling shareholder of MGH and indirectly of Teton Advisors and Keeley-Teton Advisors.
Not applicable.
United States
The aggregate number of Securities to which this Schedule 13D relates is 2,852,271 shares, representing 20.46% of the 13,940,086 shares outstanding as reported by the Issuer as of September 30, 2024. The Reporting Persons beneficially own those Securities as follows: AC 11,100 shares 0.08%, GCIA 89,711 shares 0.64%, Foundation 59,000 shares 0.42%, Funds 772,120 shares 5.54%, GAMCO 1,880,221 shares 13.49%, GBL 1,000 shares 0.01%, GGCP 10,000 shares 0.07% and MJG Associates 29,119 shares 0.21%
Each of the Reporting Persons and Covered Persons has the sole power to vote or direct the vote and sole power to dispose or to direct the disposition of the Securities reported for it, either for its own benefit or for the benefit of its investment clients or its partners, as the case may be, except that (i) GAMCO does not have authority to vote 53,100 of the reported shares, (ii) Gabelli Funds has sole dispositive and voting power with respect to the shares of the Issuer held by the Funds so long as the aggregate voting interest of all joint filers does not exceed 25% of their total voting interest in the Issuer and, in that event, the Proxy Voting Committee of each Fund shall respectively vote that Funds shares, (iii) at any time, the Proxy Voting Committee of each such Fund may take and exercise in its sole discretion the entire voting power with respect to the shares held by such fund under special circumstances such as regulatory considerations, and (iv) the power of Mario Gabelli, AC, GBL, and GGCP is indirect with respect to Securities beneficially owned directly by other Reporting Persons.
Information with respect to all transactions in the Securities which were effected during the past sixty days or since the most recent filing on Schedule 13D, whichever is less, by each of the Reporting Persons and Covered Persons is set forth below: DATE SHARES PURCHASED PRICE /SOLD GABELLI FOUNDATION, INC. 12/9/2024 -2,000 17.2544 12/6/2024 -1,200 14.5841 12/5/2024 -800 13.0600 10/25/2024 -317 13.4300 GABELLI FUNDS, LLC GABELLI EQUITY INCOME FUND 12/12/2024 -4,000 16.9874 12/11/2024 -5,000 16.8050 GAMCO MERGER ARBITRAGE UCITS 12/17/2024 -20,000 17.9014 12/16/2024 -5,000 16.6424 12/13/2024 -100 17.5200 12/9/2024 -20,000 17.3997 GABELLI DIVIDEND & INCOME TRUST 11/7/2024 -2,000 11.7707 11/1/2024 -1,000 12.6283 10/31/2024 -1,500 12.1500 GABELLI MULTIMEDIA TRUST 12/13/2024 500 16.6700 11/15/2024 1,000 11.8612 11/12/2024 2,000 11.6200 11/7/2024 2,000 11.8991 11/1/2024 500 12.6022 10/29/2024 500 12.7500 10/23/2024 1,000 13.5000 10/18/2024 -641 13.9400 GABELLI GLOBAL UTILITY & INCOME TRUST 12/9/2024 -3,000 17.0000 GABELLI UTILITIES FUND 12/11/2024 -2,000 17.2200 12/3/2024 -2,500 13.4816 GAMCO ASSET MANAGEMENT INC. 12/17/2024 -3,500 18.2642 12/16/2024 -2,200 17.2146 12/13/2024 -1,150 16.8420 12/13/2024 -2,000 16.8953 12/12/2024 -350 16.7600 12/12/2024 -4,000 16.9689 12/12/2024 -5,000 17.1064 12/11/2024 -332 17.0000 12/10/2024 -1,668 17.0138 12/9/2024 -2,000 16.2450 12/9/2024 -200 17.0000 12/9/2024 -1,900 17.0485 12/6/2024 550 13.7600 12/6/2024 -650 14.0000 12/6/2024 -1,100 14.7166 12/5/2024 -150 13.2800 12/4/2024 -1,500 13.0600 12/3/2024 -1,200 13.0616 12/2/2024 -1,200 13.5000 12/2/2024 -1,200 13.5487 11/29/2024 -752 14.5000 11/29/2024 -800 14.5600 11/20/2024 -1,000 10.2710 11/19/2024 600 11.7000 11/11/2024 3,050 11.4053 11/11/2024 300 11.4750 11/11/2024 625 11.6200 11/7/2024 1,000 11.4900 11/7/2024 500 11.6235 11/7/2024 500 11.8448 11/6/2024 1,000 11.9473 10/30/2024 800 12.6557 10/28/2024 -400 13.1992 10/28/2024 -2,000 13.2101 10/25/2024 -400 13.0512 10/25/2024 800 13.3294 10/25/2024 600 13.3294 10/23/2024 -300 13.4000 10/23/2024 -500 13.9898 10/18/2024 -2,000 14.0468 MJG ASSOCIATES, INC. 12/17/2024 -781 18.1000 12/16/2024 -200 17.4400 12/13/2024 -1,700 16.6421 12/12/2024 -5,800 17.0238 12/11/2024 -4,000 17.1937 12/10/2024 -500 17.2300 12/9/2024 -3,500 17.2399 12/6/2024 -800 15.5332 11/12/2024 -400 11.8175 (1) UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED, ALL TRANSACTIONS WERE EFFECTED ON THE NASDAQ. (2) PRICE EXCLUDES COMMISSION.
The investment advisory clients of, or partnerships managed by, GAMCO, Gabelli Funds, Teton Advisors and MJG Associates have the sole right to receive and, subject to the notice, withdrawal and/or termination provisions of such advisory contracts and partnership arrangements, the sole power to direct the receipt of dividends from, and the proceeds of sale of, any of the Securities beneficially owned by such Reporting Persons on behalf of such clients or partnerships. Except as noted, no such client or partnership has an interest by virtue of such relationship that relates to more than 5% of the Securities.
Not applicable.