TORONTO - Business News Network (BNN) has re-launched its website in an effort to become known as Canada’s premier on-line destination for business news.The site’s new features include blogs, navigation, breaking... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Internet movie subscription service Netflix launched in Canada on Wednesday morning with a streaming-only service priced at $7.99 a month.As part of the launch, Netflix also announced Canadian... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – TV viewers could soon have another children’s channel added to their dials.The CRTC approved TVO Kids+ on Wednesday, a national, English-language Category 2 specialty station aimed at “young... Continue Reading
GATINEAU - Canada’s public and private broadcasters are urging the CRTC to implement a local-into-local signal carriage regime for the country’s direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast distributors, saying the time has come... Continue Reading
TORONTO and MONTREAL – CBC and Astral are joining various cultural organizations across the country to celebrate the arts and cultural life of their communities.The inaugural Culture Days weekend will run... Continue Reading
HALIBURTON, ON - Haliburton Broadcasting Group has picked up three more radio stations in Ontario. The company told Cartt.ca on Wednesday that it has finalized deals to buy the Stratford... Continue Reading
CALGARY – Shaw’s application to buy Canwest excludes Canadians with disabilities, according to Media Access Canada (MAC).MAC, the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians, the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association and... Continue Reading
MARKHAM – Broadcasters will be offered a sneak peak at the new Canadian Association of Radio Broadcasters (CARB) when former CAB chair Elmer Hildebrand keynotes the annual general meeting of the... Continue Reading
VANCOUVER – Astral Radio’s Virgin Radio Vancouver and AM 650 are set reduce their paper consumption by 95%, thanks to an Australian invention called Workflow.Workflow, North America’s first-ever paperless radio... Continue Reading
TORONTO – As the CRTC considers Shaw’s proposed purchase of Canwest Global's TV assets, one industry analyst specualted on the implications of content providers making their content proprietary.In a note to... Continue Reading
