That success has been mirrored on the stock market.
"They're an incredible success story," says David McFadgen, an entertainment analyst with Griffiths, McBurney & Partners in Montreal, who praises, among other things, Cinar's success in placing its shows with U.S. And the company shows no signs of slowing down, with its biggest-ever production slate and a recent expansion into educational publishing. With strong finances and a knack for creating appealing, nonviolent shows, Cinar wins raves from stock market analysts and television programmers alike. Since forming Cinar in 1976, the couple has turned it from a fledgling film distributor into one of Canada's leading producers of children's television programs, along with Toronto's Nelvana Ltd. But Charest refuses to hog the limelight: "We did it together, Ron," she tells her husband.
19 on its list of the 50 most powerful women in the entertainment industry - ahead of such Hollywood heavyweights as Barbra Streisand (32) and Madonna (34). In December, the daily Hollywood Reporter ranked Charest, who shares duties as Cinar's chief executive officer with her husband, No. With record revenues of $93.7 million and a profit of nearly $13 million for the 1997 fiscal year, the industry has also taken notice. The publicly held company produces a wealth of children's programs for broadcast in 150 countries, including the Emmy Award-winning animated series Arthur.
On a recent family holiday in Jerusalem, they spied a television broadcast of Are you Afraid of the Dark? "Every time I see one when I'm travelling around the world, it gives me a thrill," says Weinberg, co-founder and president of Montreal-based Cinar Films Inc. Micheline Charest and her husband, Ronald Weinberg, do not have to look hard - at home or abroad - for signs of success.
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