OTTAWA – The CRTC has extended its call for new French-language general interest pay television service applications, but only for channels that don’t plan to compete with Astral’s Super…
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TORONTO – CBC News has adopted an updated and modernized Journalistic Standards and Practices (JS&P) document, which has become effective immediately.
In May 2009, CBC/Radio-Canada’s news divisions began the process to…
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OTTAWA – Viewer advisories on a TV show that depicted accidents and injuries would have been helpful to audiences, but the program was not violent or gory enough to…
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TORONTO – Astral’s Playhouse Disney channel will follow suit with its U.S. counterpart and re-brand its English and French-language networks as Disney Junior in May 2011.
The re-branded multiplex channel…
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GATINEAU – Bell TV and Shaw Direct used the rebuttal phase of the CRTC’s Direct-to-Home (DTH) policy hearing to make new proposals in hopes of showing good faith to…
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GATINEAU – Canada’s DTH carriers must do a far better job of carrying French-language programming in all regions of Quebec, said the Bloc Québécois, the syndicat des communications de…
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OTTAWA – The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage begins its study of “the impacts of private television ownership changes and the move towards new viewing platforms,” today in Ottawa…
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TORONTO – Broadcast and distribution industry veteran Darrell Atherley died Tuesday at his home in Oakville, Ont. Atherley, 59, had battled cancer since the summer of 2009.
Len Cochrane, president…
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OTTAWA – CBC has submitted a new programming proposal to the CRTC for its category 1 specialty service known as bold.
As Cartt.ca reported, the Commission directed the CBC…
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GATINEAU – Citing a significant lack of satellite capacity resulting from a few failures in the past two years, FreeHD Canada Inc. will have to delay service launch by…
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