TORONTO and OTTAWA – The CRTC should rethink its decision to delay considering applications for mandatory basic digital distribution.
That message seems to be picking up steam, and not just with…
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CALGARY – Like everyone else, the Writers Guild of Canada says it’s pretty happy Shaw Communications decided to buy Canwest Global.
But also like a lot of others, the WGC…
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TORONTO – Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will be in Toronto this morning to officially launch Netflix in Canada.
The service here will apparently not include the successful DVD-by-mail service the…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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