MONTREAL – Startup costs associated with the Sun News Network ate into net income attributable to shareholders in the first quarter of 2011, cutting earnings to $300,000 from $700,000 a... Continue Reading
VANCOUVER – Telus has added French, English and Mandarin versions of Fox International’s BabyTV to its Optik TV lineup.Founded in 2003, BabyTV provides commercial-free, original programming for babies and toddlers... Continue Reading
NEW YORK – Something relatively unique in Canadian television is launching today in New York.A brand new cable channel, Fight Now TV is launching on Cablevision, the 8th-largest cable operator in... Continue Reading
DARTMOUTH – Newcap is selling its two Winnipeg-based radio stations to Evanov Radio Group subsidiary Dufferin Communications for $5.5 million.The deal includes news station CKJS AM, K-Rock 100.7 (CHNK FM), and... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The CRTC will examine a number of new specialty TV channel and radio applications this July.The applications, made public Thursday, include a new French-language channel from Astral called Tele-Vitesse... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Entertainment One’s Prentiss Fraser has been named board chair of Women in Film & Television – Toronto (WIFT-T) for the upcoming term, replacing outgoing chair Susan Ross.“WIFT-T extends... Continue Reading
TORONTO - A professor and broadcasting researcher at Ryerson University is developing a one-of-a-kind worldwide broadcast network that has been dubbed “the CNN of the university world”.Using high-speed Internet connections... Continue Reading
TORONTO – The majority of Canadians that will be impacted by the upcoming digital transition are aware of it, but are in no rush to find a new way to... Continue Reading
IROQOUIS, ON - Ross Video has named Joseph Guerrero as its channel manager for the United States.Based in Warwick, NY and reporting to director of sales Kyle Luther, Guerrero will... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Oasis HD has cracked the high definition lineup at Videotron.Starting Wednesday, all of Videotron’s HD subscribers will receive a three month free preview of the commercial-free nature channel... Continue Reading
