OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC has approved an application for a new English-language digital channel providing described video programming for the blind and visually impaired.
The commission will grant a…
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MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable Inc. has entered into an agreement with underwriters to raise $153 million through a share issue.
A syndicate of underwriters led by BMO Capital Markets,…
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OTTAWA – Live coverage of the Montreal Dawson College shooting on Vancouver’s CKNW could have been “lethal” for the students still trapped on campus as events unfolded, the Canadian…
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OTTAWA – Canada’s telecommunications companies have launched an agency to hear complaints from consumers that can’t be resolved by the telcos or the CRTC.
The office of the Commissioner…
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TORONTO – VisionTV has vowed to never again air lectures by an Islamic preacher with self-professed “radical” views after some viewers complained bitterly of a recent broadcast.
The network…
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COMING OFF A SUCCESSFUL free trial that saw 43,000 subscribers sign up for its OneZone WiFi service in downtown Toronto, Toronto Hydro Telecom moved to a subscription-based service in…
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TORONTO – Score Media now has 120 days to find a buyer after minority shareholder Alliance Atlantis turned down a chance to buy the company whose central asset is…
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WASHINGTON – The CTAM Canada Summit dinner scheduled for this coming Monday at the Canadian Embassy in Washington is now sold out.
The response to this year’s Embassy reception…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Canadian broadcasters have offered at least tepid support for a Rogers Cable application to the CRTC to alter the video on demand regs to allow for greater…
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RESTON, Va. – New data from digital media measurement company Comscore says that 75% of American Internet users streamed video online in May and that the average streamer watched…
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