BANFF – Former CHUM president and CEO Jay Switzer and former Standard Broadcasting president and CEO Gary Slaight are among a group of Canadian broadcast executives who have invested…
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TORONTO – The launch of a French language Teletoon Retro will see the total number of Canadian homes receiving the programming grow to over 5.8 million as Vidéotron illico…
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TORONTO – “Dunt-da-dunt-da-dunt…” is now part of the CTVglobemedia empire.
It was a battle that has raged for the better part of a week and when CBC couldn’t come…
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BANFF – The 2008 Canadian New Media Award finalists were unveiled Sunday at the nextMEDIA conference, with four firms from across Canada vying for Company of the Year.
Moment…
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WHEN IT COMES TO reading the CRTC, or predicting, or crystal-balling, everyone resorts to their own brand of “reading the tea leaves.”
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OTTAWA – The CRTC said today that while many things should change about the Canadian Television Fund, Shaw Communications and Quebecor Media still have to pay into it –…
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GATINEAU – Count commissioner Michel Morin as someone who isn’t buying Canadian independent television producers’ traditional “poor me” stance.
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GATINEAU – The CRTC will make public its recommendations for the future of the Canadian Television Fund at 2 p.m. today.
It’s a story Cartt.ca has been following closely for…
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QUEBEC CITY – Just in case their scepticism towards Remstar’s plan to save Quebec’s sinking TQS network wasn’t clear enough after a third day of public hearings, the CRTC…
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TORONTO – One of Aesop’s centuries-old fables is a good way to summarize Canadian broadcasters and their desire for a new fee-for-carriage, according to the vice-president and general manager of…
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