TORONTO – This is not your grandma’s upfront market.
Looking back at the good-ol’-days of the fall season’s upfront market – you know, 2003-’04 or so (when it was…
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TORONTO – Aurora Cable has added World Fishing Network, GOLTV and Casino and Gaming Television to its digital cable lineup.
All three, which are owned by Insight Sports, are being,…
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TORONTO – With an announcement today that XM Canada has 80,000 subscribers, the market is officially reversed, as compared to the U.S.
Down south, XM is the market leader…
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HALIFAX, N.S. – EastLink’s director of human resources, Donald Rankin, won the Excellence in Human Resources Award last week, from the Human Resource Associations of Atlantic Canada.
Rankin was chosen…
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TORONTO – Comcast-owned cable channel G4 has acquired CHUM Television’s strange and silly “Ed the Sock’s Night Party!”
The half-hour show will air on G4 (formerly G4techTV, formerly Tech TV),…
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TORONTO – The TV host who’s been synonymous with CBC Sports – especially the Olympics – for 30 years, Brian Williams, will start work for CTV this December.
In…
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TORONTO – Visitors to the CBC’s popular web source, www.cbc.ca, over the past few days will have noticed a dramatic overhaul of the service.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the…
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OTTAWA – With re-comments re-due today on the CRTC’s reconsideration of its 2005 decision on voice over IP telephony regulation, three of the four largest Canadian MSOs came down…
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MONTREAL – The Alliance for Children and Television handed out its annual awards for excellence in French language youth television in Montreal on Thursday.
A total of 10 awards…
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OTTAWA – Cable and satellite companies can now advertise their Internet and voice offerings on CNN, A&E, SpikeTV and other American cable channels, the CRTC has ruled.
The American…
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