1979- Ski Base Launches: As a ski travel television program in Ontario, Canada, owned by CKVR, a regional television station.

1991- Acquisition: Program acquired by a private production company and is rebranded as World of Skiing. Distribution is expanded nationally

2009- S-MEDIA is formed and rebrands program as Ski Television. S-Media also launches digital and print platforms.

2011-2014-Winter Productions: S-MEDIA expands into additional winter sport productions including hockey, sliding sports and winter.

2017-Chinese & Global Markets: S-MEDIA expands into Chinese and Global markets through co-production agreement with XINHUA/CNC World, the Chinese state broadcaster with sees global growth of  an audience to 108,000,000

2020-New Global Projects: S-MEDIA continues to produce it’s core roots ski programming, as well as developing new global projects around winter sports.

2022- Ascend Television: To serve a wider audience and produce content at a global scale in parallel niche markets. Ski Television rebrands to becomes Ascend Television.