TORONTO – Perhaps in preparation for its Olympic Game coverage next year, CTV has lined up an “unparalleled” broadcast plan for the 2009 Juno Awards on Sunday, offering coverage across... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Canada’s most famous ‘hosers’, Bob and Doug McKenzie, are planning a return to television as part of a new animated series on Global aptly entitled Bob & Doug.... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Independent broadcaster Stornoway Communications, owner of diginets iChannel, The Pet Network and bpm:tv, have asked the CRTC to amend its broadcasting license for dance channel bpm:tv. It has... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Event group nextMEDIA has kicked off a Canada-wide hunt for “the hottest emerging digital properties”, called 'The Digital Hot List'. The competition is open to content portals, social... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – CTV, on behalf of its radio division Chum, and Harvard Broadcasting both resubmitted their bids for a new radio station in Edmonton to the CRTC Monday, and both... Continue Reading
WASHINGTON, DC - Nearly one in four attendees at this year's National Association of Broadcasters Show is expected to come from outside of the U.S., demonstrating the global scale and... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - Telefilm Canada has renewed its Canada New Media Fund for another year, but has streamlined the process and aligned its application deadlines to close within the fiscal year.The... Continue Reading
REGINA - Saskatchewan educational broadcaster SCN has received a 31% increase in its broadcaster performance envelope from the Canadian Television Fund (CTF). SCN's total envelope for the 2009-2010 fiscal year is $924,944,... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – CBC has received approval from the CRTC to use a subsidiary communications multiplex operation (SCMO) channel in Vancouver to launch a Fijian-language radio service called Radio Fiji Mirchi.... Continue Reading
PETIT-DE-GRAT, NS - The federal government has thrown its support behind a French-language minority community radio station called Cooperative Radio Richmond, located in Petit-de-Grat, Nova Scotia, population 454. The $223,734... Continue Reading
