MONTREAL – Quebecor Media’s TVA Group has closed its deal to buy French-language specialty channels Évasion and Zeste as part of its acquisition of parent company Serdy Media.
Évasion launched…
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Structural re-org to separate business lines
HALIFAX – DHX Media saw revenues dip and recorded a $17.9 million net loss attributable to its shareholders for its second quarter ended December…
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TORONTO – Global News Toronto has revamped its local news programming and will debut a new local morning program, Global News Morning Toronto, starting next month.
The new morning show will be…
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MIAMI – CBC has a picked up a slate of new kids content for its OTT platforms CBC Gem and French-language ICI Tou.tv after announcing an expanded commitment to…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has established an appropriate quality of service (QoS) metric for jitter as it continues to define the broadband portion of the universal service objective.
The…
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TORONTO – One in four Canadians tuned-in to Saturday’s 12 ½ hour marathon broadcast of Scotiabank Hockey Day in Canada on Sportsnet, Citytv and CBC.
The broadcast, live from Swift…
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TORONTO – CTAM Canada is once again inviting its members to apply for a scholarship to attend the prestigious Cable Executive Management course at Harvard Business School in June.
One…
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TORONTO – marblemedia has rolled out its rebranded YouTube channel marblekids that will include its first original digital series Smashalot!
The marblekids channel, which streams content for kids 6-12…
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REGINA – SaskTel has announced plans to bring its infiNET fibre optic network to Humboldt, Melfort, Melville, Nipawin, and Tisdale this year.
Construction is set to begin in the coming weeks,…
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CALGARY – Corus-owned Calgary radio station Country 105 (CKRY-FM) helped to raise over $6 million for the Alberta Children’s Hospital during the 16th annual Caring For Kids Radiothon held…
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