BANFF – The Banff World Television Festival has been renamed the Banff World Media Festival after formalizing a partnership with the nextMEDIA digital media conference.
Organizers say that the festival’s new name…
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GLOBAL UNIT SHIPMENTS of personal video recorder (PVR) products set a new record in 2009, and are well on their way to eclipsing that record this year, according to…
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WASHINGTON, D.C – The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is behind a new consumer-oriented website that launched this week touting television’s new technologies and services, underlined by the need for…
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OTTAWA – A news report that speculated that the sole survivor of a fatal traffic accident would also “likely die” did not breach any broadcast codes, according to the…
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TORONTO – Canadian viewers will get a sneak peek into new channel OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network starting this Friday, two months prior to its scheduled launch.
OWN will officially debut…
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TORONTO – HGTV Canada is kicking off 2011 with a multi-platform image campaign celebrating winter and a new season of programming.
Targeting Adults 25-54, the national campaign, with emphasis in…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has given Bluepoint Investments the go ahead to proceed with its purchase of the Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN).
The satellite-to-cable programming undertaking distributes educational programming in…
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MONTREAL – TV5 Québec Canada has named Marie-Linda Lord as president of the network’s board of directors for a two year term.
Adélard Guillemette was named to vice-president of the…
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TORONTO – CBC has kicked off a national multi-platform health initiative designed to inspire Canadians to get healthy.
The Live Right Now campaign, which will be supported across CBC’s radio,…
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WINNIPEG – Winnipeg has become the fifth Global Television market to broadcast in high definition with the launch of a new digital, over-the-air transmitter.
The Global Winnipeg HD signal is available now on…
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