HALIFAX – DHX Media is buying Cookie Jar Entertainment in a $111 million deal that will result in Canada's largest children's entertainment company.
The two program distributors said Monday that the combined…
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“ONLY IN CANADA” were the three words I couldn’t get out of my head while reading Corus Entertainment’s application to the CRTC to change the Nature of Service (NOS)…
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TORONTO – Blue Ant Media said Friday that it has entered into an agreement to purchase digital specialty channel bold from the CBC.
Financial terms were not disclosed, and the transaction…
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THESE CRTC HEARINGS INTO big acquisitions have simply become giant public negotiating exercises where a lot of dirty laundry is aired in public by those who feel they’ve been…
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WATERLOO – Barrington Broadcasting Group and Time Warner Cable News have selected cellular newsgathering products from Canadian manufacturer Dejero for several of their cable channels.
“Time Warner Cable News and…
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TORONTO – TVO is launching a free Android app for Google TV this week.
The app in addition to a Google TV set top device will allow viewers to stream TVO programs…
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TORONTO – The London 2012 Summer Games helped to boost audiences for CTV News’ national and local newscasts.
CTV National News With Lisa Laflamme and many CTV Evening News broadcasts…
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TORONTO – Registration is now open for Interactive Ontario’s X-Summit conference which this year will take place November 6 – 7 at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Toronto.
The conference…
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OTTAWA – The ‘Say No To Bell’ coalition is taking issue with interventions filed by Telefilm Canada and the Terrace, BC detachment of the RCMP in support Bell’s proposed…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC has green-lit the sale of sports channels owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) to a company co-owned by Rogers and BCE, effectively closing…
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