TORONTO – Showcase announced Wednesday it has commissioned three new half-hour comedy pilots: The Foundation, Pure Evil and Retail. The specialty TV channel said these pilots would “deliver more…
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TORONTO – Canadian consumers are adopting a multiple of competing technologies to personalize their TV viewing experience, according to the Personal TV: Anytime, Anywhere a Media Technology Monitor (MTM)…
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TORONTO – Global News Ontario will broadcast the six o’clock news from different communities around Toronto this month.
From June 25 to June 29, the news crew will be…
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TORONTO – Moody’s Investors Service has placed the long-term debt ratings of the Intelsat Ltd. group of companies (Intelsat) on review for possible downgrade, citing concerns over private equity…
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CHICAGO – Microsoft’s newest version of its IPTV platform was unveiled over the weekend at telecom conference NXTComm.
Featuring several new multimedia capabilities, including in-home personal music and photo…
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LAST WEEK THE Cable Public Affairs Channel celebrated its 15th anniversary of bringing Canadians the nitty gritty of politics.
As the only place where you find federal Parliamentary debates,…
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SHERBROOKE, QC – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced Tuesday they had seized equipment believed to be used in satellite TV signal theft in a 64-year-old man’s home in…
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TORONTO – CBCNews.ca has partnered with blog and social media search engine Technorati.com to give its web readers access to more than 86 monitored blogs.
CBCNews.ca stories now include…
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NEW YORK –The planned expansion of cablecos into the small and medium-sized business telecommunications market will make it harder for the competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) to continue to…
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TORONTO – Thirty-five-year CBC veteran Tony Burman announced Tuesday he’s leaving his position as editor-in-chief of CBC News, Current Affairs and Newsworld on July 13. He has been in…
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