GATINEAU – The CRTC today approved the $3.2 billion purchase of Astral Media by BCE Inc., but Bell’s regulatory people have MUCH paperwork to file before July 29th in order... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield and musician Carly Rae Jepsen are among a lineup of guests and performers taking part in CPAC’s live Canada Day special from Parliament Hill... Continue Reading
TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced Tuesday that Alain Cousineau and Chris Frank, former Bell TV vice-president of programming, have been nominated to the CMF’s board of directors.... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Will the CRTC approve the deal to let BCE Inc. take control of Astral Media? After weeks of speculation (and 15 months since its intitial bid for Astral... Continue Reading
CALGARY – Talk radio host Dave Rutherford of Corus-owned AM770 CHQR in Calgary had his show pulled from the airwaves Tuesday after criticizing the station’s coverage of the city’s flooding... Continue Reading
THE SWIRL OF RUMOURS has to be difficult on the folks who work at Bell Media and Astral Media, what with the flurry of emails, tweets and phone calls we’re... Continue Reading
ELEVEN MONTHS AGO, the CRTC announced it would get rid of the Local Programming Improvement Fund, a line item applied to the monthly bill of every cable, satellite and telco... Continue Reading
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A Canadian digital TV industry expert has been asked to help the European-based HbbTV consortium lead a global marketing campaign to raise awareness of the HTML5-based hybrid... Continue Reading
WINDSOR, ON – CBC announced today that its CBC News: Windsor at 6 newscast will be expanding to 90 minutes in September 2013, however it is cancelling the station’s nightly... Continue Reading
IROQUOIS, ONT. – Video production technology company Ross Video has appointed John Naylor as marketing product and business development manager of the company’s Dashboard open control platform “We are excited... Continue Reading
