MONTREAL – Cogeco Cable urged the CRTC to keep close watch over the potential merger between Bell and CTV in order to “preserve competition and protect consumer interests”.
Appearing Wednesday morning…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media has beefed up the websites of two of its top radio stations, allowing them the ability to publish real-time content that can then be easily…
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MONTREAL and OTTAWA – Just in time for Super Bowl, CTV Montreal has completed the installation of its over-the-air high definition transmitter in Montréal.
The station’s programming is now available to…
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GATINEAU – Seems as though Telus has a thing for former Canadian Cable Television Association presidents…
Former CBC executive vice-president Richard Stursberg made his first official industry appearance since he…
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WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg Free Press, one of Canada’s oldest newspapers, and Manitoba’s largest daily, has broken new ground with the launch on Tuesday of its new digital (online)…
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GATINEAU – While producers and others argued how and where the $220-million BCE/CTV benefits package should be spent, the two largest carriers without broadcast or specialty TV divisions warned…
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MONTREAL – At 6 a.m. Wednesday, Montrealers will wake up to a brand new TV station.
Well, technically, it’s still on channel 14, but as of today the station takes…
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OTTAWA – When Shaw Communications purchased Canwest Global’s TV assets last year, the Competition Bureau gave the transaction its blessing.
The Bureau’s statement on that deal said: “this transaction…
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GATINEAU – Tuesday afternoon, BCE president and CEO George Cope (who looked a little grey as he fought through a bad cold) was unequivocal when it came to MPEG-4…
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TORONTO – TSN went on a shopping spree this week and picked up a multimedia rights agreement with the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), and the English-language broadcast rights for the…
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