OTTAWA and VANCOUVER – The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) and citizen-engagement group OpenMedia.ca are behind a new coalition known as ‘Stop the Takeover’ formed to fight Bell’s proposed…
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TORONTO – Score Media will be a digital/new media company only going forward as the company has decided to sell its television business to Rogers Communications for $167 million….
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The Federal Liberal Association in Guelph, ON, has been hit with a $4,900 fine by the CRTC for its use of automatic dialers, also known as robocalls,…
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TORONTO – AMC president and CEO Josh Sapan will lead a discussion next month on the value of original programming and how to create entertainment brands of distinction in…
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MONTREAL – Astral Media’s out-of-home division has launched the very first universal augmented reality application for out-of-home advertisers.
Launched August 20 in select transit shelters in Toronto, the campaign invites the…
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TORONTO – Telehop is back in the black after recording second quarter results that are EBITDA and operating income positive.
The long distance provider said net income for the period…
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OTTAWA – Complaints about telemarketing spiked in July, with the CRTC fielding approximately 17,000 complaints.
According to the Commission’s most recent status report, five new investigations were opened in July,…
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TORONTO – Canadians object to the purchase of Astral Media by Bell Canada, when told the resulting company would control 38% of the TV market and 29% of the…
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TORONTO – Public Mobile is offering U.S. data roaming for its customers with Android smart phones.
The wireless upstart said that Android customers may talk, text and data outside of…
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TORONTO – Wind Mobile ended the second quarter with 457,000 subscribers, a 44% increase over the 317,000 customers reported in the same quarter last year, according to financial results released…
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