TORONTO – Bell Canada and the National Hockey League is taking its COLD-fX NHL All-Star Fan Balloting presented by 2KSports digital, allowing Bell Mobility customers across Canada to vote…
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MONTREAL – While the broadcast industry heavyweights talk (and talk and talk) in Ottawa, their newsgathering organizations begin covering the Liberal Leadership Convention in Montreal today and this time,…
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WITH THE FOCUS OF the TV and telecom industry in Ottawa this week for the TV Policy Review hearing, we figure any Tuesday Interview subject would probably get lost…
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OTTAWA – Satellite radio has another distribution platform, if they want it.
A Commission decision today that will surely be copied by other broadcast distribution undertakings said that Rogers…
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QUISPAMSIS, N.B. – The Canadian Cable Systems Alliance and Insight Sports announced this week that the two have come to a master affiliate agreement for Insight’s all-soccer GOLTV and…
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WHEN YOU CRITICIZE consumer media columnists for not taking a stand on certain things as I did yesterday over the lack of opinion on the CRTC’s TV Review, you’ve got to…
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TORONTO – MuchMusic is asking its viewers to produce their own Canadian content.
The music station wants fans of Canadian pop rockers Hedley to submit their own versions of…
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FEE-FOR-CARRIAGE will happen.
There. I said it. I don’t like it and sure don’t want to pay it, but I’ve come to believe – thanks to my talks and…
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THE CRTC’s TELEVISION POLICY Review hearing, which gets under way this morning with the CBC facing the commissioners, will have everyone involved in the Canadian TV industry on tenterhooks…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – There just isn’t enough cash in the system for conventional broadcasters to convert to digital television, representatives from CBC and TQS told the CRTC today.
And the…
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