MONTREAL – Astral Media has signed on as the promotional partner of the Grand défi bicycle marathon and the Grand défi caravan that will tour Québec elementary schools this…
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OTTAWA – Add Friends of Canadian Broadcasting to the list of organizations hoping to save Saskatchewan’s educational broadcaster SCN.
The independent broadcasting watchdog has launched a campaign encouraging supporters to…
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TORONTO – CTV and Free The Children will team up for the next three years on the youth-empowerment ‘We Day’ event.
The partnership will see CTV broadcast a ‘We Day’…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has released new broadcast license trafficking rules which make it easier to sell a license that was awarded during a non-competitive process.
The Commission announced Monday…
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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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