TORONTO – The Toronto Sun is reporting that a dozen employees have been cut from Toronto-based talk radio station CFRB.The cuts were made to producers, news-staffers and on-air personalities at the Astral-owned... Continue Reading
WINNIPEG - Canwest Broadcasting has aligned its sales representation for its conventional and specialty stations in the US under one firm.Starting September 1st, Canadian Television Sales will expand their responsibilities... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Showcase will debut a new logo and on-air look starting Monday, and will roll out a national consumer marketing campaign promoting itself as “the home of bold hits”.Over the last... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Channel Zero has received CRTC approval to assume ownership of former Canwest E! stations CHCH TV Hamilton and CJNT TV Montreal.The independent specialty service operator, which owns short... Continue Reading
VICTORIA – It could be a very long weekend for the employees of CHEK-TV, as they wait to hear whether current owner Canwest Global will accept their offer to purchase... Continue Reading
OAKVILLE, ON – The Weather Network is making its WeatherEye Mobile application available for Windows Mobile and Google Android.The free app, which provides weather information for over 10,000 cities worldwide,... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Astral’s French-language music channel MusiquePlus will now allocate its annual contributions in support of music video development and production to MaxFACT.MusiquePlus' annual contributions match 3.4% of the previous... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Comments made by the hosts of Quebec City radio station CHOI-FM about homosexuality were neither abusive, unduly discriminatory, or unduly sexually explicit, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC)... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central is offering Bell TV subscribers a dedicated interactive scheduling channel called Movie Central Interactive (MCi).The service features in-depth and long lead scheduling information so... Continue Reading
OTTAWA - Canada’s private radio broadcasters saw operating revenues of $1.6 billion (current dollars) for 2008, a 5.6% increase from 2007 totals, according to Statistics Canada.Profits before interest and taxes... Continue Reading
