Complex sentence: By the 1980s, Asper seemed eager to grow his chain of stations, launching two stations in Saskatchewan and winning a legal battle for a station in Vancouver during that decade, and acquiring a fledgling system in the Maritimes in the early 1990s.
Split into simpler sentences: By the 1980s, Asper seemed eager to grow his chain of stations, launching two stations in Saskatchewan, and winning a legal battle for a station in Vancouver during that decade. He also acquired a fledgling system in the Maritimes in the early 1990s.