TORONTO – Shaw Media has inked an exclusive partnership with social networking platform GetGlue which will allow viewers to ‘check-in’ with some of its most popular domestic programming. Through its... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Sportsnet is offering Toronto Maple Leaf fans another way to keep up with the team with the debut of a new app known as the ‘Sportsnet – Live... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The CRTC has approved CHCH’s request to use a new replacement UHF digital television transmitter, specifically the one formerly used by Toronto 1/Sun News Toronto. The Channel Zero-owned... Continue Reading
WINNIPEG – APTN has promoted Lisa Squire to director of marketing, effective immediately. After starting with APTN in June 2007 as the manager of research, Squire led the development of... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Astral Radio is banking on the star power of pop singer Katy Perry to push its new on-demand digital musical service. The promotional campaign, featuring Perry, will be... Continue Reading
SAN DIEGO – Slacker has launched ‘Canadian Music Week 2012’, the official radio station of next month’s Slacker Canadian Music Week. The free station, curated and hosted by Alan Cross,... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – City-TV and CTV Toronto (CFTO-TV) breached the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ Violence Code by failing to warn viewers prior to airing disturbing police radio transmissions, the Canadian Broadcast... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Terrestrial pay-per-view service Viewer’s Choice is going national. The service was granted permission from the CRTC Tuesday to amend its broadcasting licence from a regional service, serving Ontario,... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Former CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein has joined the C. D. Howe Institute as an Institute Senior Fellow. The C. D. Howe Institute is an independent not-for-profit organization... Continue Reading
OTTAWA - The CRTC has received 22 applications for the coveted 88.1 FM slot in Toronto which vary from a $12 million CanCon promise from Newcap, to an all-business news... Continue Reading
