MONTREAL – CBC President and CEO Hubert Lacroix isn’t sugar-coating the news. He isn’t going to pretend that the 657 full-time equivalent jobs being cut this month — and…
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BASED ON THE DOZENS of submissions from radio companies and other groups to the CRTC, the answer is a resounding… maybe.
Whether to bring the proprietary digital broadcasting format which…
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MONTREAL – Some would-be Montreal television producers have had it with Vidéotron's community television service in the city, so much so that they have filed a complaint with the…
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OTTAWA – Quebecor doesn't mince words in its complaint against the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund: "The decisions made by the board of directors of the Bell Fund…
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GATINEAU – We're about a month away from all Canadian television distributors being required to make all Canadian national news channels available to all of their subscribers, but one…
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GATINEAU – A complaint before the CRTC accuses a big Canadian TV broadcaster of behaving poorly by giving itself an undue preference by outright refusing to air advertising from…
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GATINEAU – In contrast to high-profile hearings to discuss the proposed acquisition of Astral Media by BCE, or the shorter hearing for Corus's acquisition of assets BCE was required…
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FOR A YEAR NOW, Sam Norouzi has been working tirelessly toward getting a new conventional television station on the air.
It's not something you see much these days. Unlike specialty…
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GATINEAU – Broadcasters, distributors and special interests all took predictable stances on the CRTC's proposed framework for the distribution of national news services in interventions published this week.
The comment…
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MONTREAL — Vincent Geracitano runs the gamut of emotions describing the future of his television channel: pride, enjoyment, worry, but mostly anger about how it's being taken away from…
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