I READ YOUR COMMENTARY published March 26 regarding the Bell Media vs. CIDG arbitration with great interest. I can confirm that it was a critically…
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TORONTO – Corus Entertainment has killed off its Dusk channel, making room for its new family-oriented channel ABC Spark.
In a notice on the channel's website, Corus said that “it…
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TORONTO – It should come as little surprise Bell Media’s recent $3.4 billion bid for Astral Media was top-of-mind for radio industry executives at last…
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TORONTO – Toronto-area radio stations fared well at the Canadian Music and Broadcast Industry Awards which helped to draw Slacker Canadian Music Week to a close.
Station of the Year…
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OTTAWA – GlassBox Television has received CRTC approval for a new French-language music channel.
The category B service, known as GlassBox Créneau musical : musiques émergentes, is a national service…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC said Monday that it is full speed ahead for the new Canadian Broadcasting Participation Fund (BPF) designed to help public interest and consumer groups…
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TORONTO – Rogers Broadcasting is committed to the Saskatchewan production community, and believes that its yet-to-be-approved purchase of provincial broadcaster Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN) will help to keep that…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Media Fund (CMF) has overhauled its two year old website in an effort to make it easier for Canadian content producers to locate various funding…
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ON THURSDAY, A PANEL of seven CRTC commissioners and a dozen industry executives took part in a hearing where they all must have asked themselves repeatedly, “Geez, how often…
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TORONTO – What would radio be without good, lively banter among radio personalities? And that’s exactly what attendees at the Radio Interactive conference on Thursday were treated to during…
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