ON A SUNDAY MORNING three weeks after the earthquake which levelled so much of Haiti, cameraman John Tuk and I found ourselves at the Village of Hope, standing in…
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TORONTO – Multilingual/multicultural OMNI Television aired Polish language memorial programming plus commercial-free coverage of Sunday’s state funeral of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and the First Lady.
“It is a very…
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TORONTO – Rogers Broadcasting has named Karen Steele as program director for KiSS-92.5, replacing Julie Adam.
Steele, who joined Rogers Broadcasting in July 2009, will be responsible for all…
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NEW YORK – A new piracy monitoring system called ‘Torrent Tracker Reports’ promises to find out what TV content is most popular on-line, which in turn will allow traditional…
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TORONTO and ST. JOHN’S – As Canada’s music industry gathered at the annual Juno Awards, recording artists and songwriters called on the federal government to amend the copyright legislation…
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WINNIPEG – CTV Winnipeg is the first recipient of the inaugural St. John Ambulance Media Award for Manitoba.
The award was created to acknowledge exceptional news coverage of health and…
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TORONTO – The Canadian on-line advertising market will top $1.74 billion this year, according to new research from Convergence Consulting Group.
The report ‘The Battle for the North American (Canada…
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LAS VEGAS – Broadcasters must better understand their viewer if they are going to help their clients truly connect with customers in our multi-platform world.
And before any broadcaster says…
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TORONTO – Corus Entertainment credited the return of advertisers for its solid second quarter financial results.
The media company reported double digit segment profits for both its radio and television…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has turned down CBC’s request to amend the broadcast licence of its specialty channel bold, instead giving it a month to come up with another…
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