DARTMOUTH – Newcap is selling its two Winnipeg-based radio stations to Evanov Radio Group subsidiary Dufferin Communications for $5.5 million.
The deal includes news station CKJS AM, K-Rock 100.7 (CHNK FM),…
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OTTAWA – One year after its launch, 25,000 Canadians now subscribe to the wireless Amber Alerts program, according to the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA).
The free text message service…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC will examine a number of new specialty TV channel and radio applications this July.
The applications, made public Thursday, include a new French-language channel from Astral…
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IROQOUIS, ON – Ross Video has named Joseph Guerrero as its channel manager for the United States.
Based in Warwick, NY and reporting to director of sales Kyle Luther, Guerrero…
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OTTAWA – The country’s big Internet service providers will be required to provide static Internet protocol (IP) address allocation for their third-party Internet access (TPIA) services, the CRTC has ruled.
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OTTAWA – Regina-based Access Communications Co-operative has told the CRTC that it no longer wishes to pay into the country’s Local Programming Improvement Fund (LPIF).
Canada’s cable and satellite companies must contribute…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has turned down a request from the Canadian Network Operators Consortium Inc. (CNOC) to merge the retail component of usage-based billing (UBB) with the residential…
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TORONTO – Mobilicity is urging the Ontario government to follow the example set by Manitoba and Quebec and pass its own legislation designed to “end unfair practices by…
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TORONTO – Entertainment One’s Prentiss Fraser has been named board chair of Women in Film & Television – Toronto (WIFT-T) for the upcoming term, replacing outgoing chair Susan Ross.
“WIFT-T…
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TORONTO – A professor and broadcasting researcher at Ryerson University is developing a one-of-a-kind worldwide broadcast network that has been dubbed “the CNN of the university world”.
Using high-speed Internet…
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