OTTAWA – The CRTC will require the owners of Canada’s biggest distributors and broadcasters to publicly disclose aggregate financial data.Ownership groups such as Astral Media, BCE, Bragg Communications, CBC, Canwest... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Nascent wireless company Globalive is so worried about protecting the identity of its financial backers that this week it has asked the CRTC for what looks like CSIS-level... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Nascent wireless company Globalive is so worried about protecting the identity of its financial backers that this week it has asked the CRTC for what looks like CSIS-level... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Despite on-going financial challenges at its parent company, Global TV appears to have spared no expense in its month long ad campaign touting its Fall lineup.The ‘Big Fall... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Sports broadcasters gave the full court press this week to their upcoming basketball broadcasts.TSN and TSN2 unveiled their “most extensive NBA broadcast schedule ever” with 50 Toronto Raptors... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Canada’s first certificate program for senior media managers will take place this October.The three-day residential media management executive education program will be held from October 23-25, 2009 at... Continue Reading
HALIFAX - Bell Aliant employees and volunteers have delivered over 3,100 backpacks filled with school supplies to needy children in communities throughout Atlantic Canada, Ontario and Quebec.The annual ‘Backpacks for... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Cable giants south of the border (Comcast and Time Warner) are pushing their TV Everywhere concept hard and Canadians, according to new data from Solutions Research Group, like... Continue Reading
FIVE OF Canada’s biggest cable companies have complained to the CRTC for extending a filing deadline – two days after the deadline had already passed.Calling it “both unprecedented and unacceptable”,... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – If the transition to digital television is going to work here, Canadian consumers are going to need digital set top boxes – and help paying for them –... Continue Reading
