OTTAWA – The CRTC will hold a public hearing to determine whether the way that CBC re-branded specialty channel ‘Country Canada’ to ‘bold’ has negatively impacted “the integrity of…
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TORONTO – New York-based music subscription company Dada Entertainment launched its year-old service in Canada Tuesday, naming former Rogers Wireless exec Christopher Lam as its general manager.
The service,…
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TORONTO and OTTAWA – Television industry stakeholders continue to weigh in on the new Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced Monday.
CTV said in a statement…
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TORONTO and MONTREAL – The “analysis, evaluation and discussions” around the sale of Look Communications’ assets is still on-going, the company said Tuesday.
All bids were due to…
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TORONTO – Broadband service provider TeraGo Networks reported a net loss of $12.4 million for its 2008 fiscal year, nearly $7 million more than its net loss in 2007.
The…
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NEW YORK, NY – Time Warner Cable has launched ‘Primetime On Demand’, a free channel that they are calling a “window into television’s hottest programs”.
The channel will air…
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GRANDE PRAIRIE, AB – Persona has ramped up its Internet speeds with the debut of a package called ‘Persona High Speed Extreme 15’.
Launched Tuesday in Grande Prairie and…
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TORONTO – CTV-owned Business New Network (BNN) is airing live commercial spots for its advertiser Scotiabank.
Spots promoting the bank’s online investing service Scotia iTRADE are airing every hour…
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TORONTO – The first casualties of CBC’s long-rumoured programming cutbacks have been identified.
The public broadcaster announced Tuesday that it will drop two of its daytime shows. Lifestyles program ‘Steven and Chris’…
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GATINEAU – The broadband video portal Rogers Communications will launch later this year will not only be a boon to Canadians looking for high quality broadband video, it will…
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