WINNIPEG – Canwest Global Communications recorded a net loss of $1.04 billion for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2008, which was primarily due to a non-cash $1.01 billion write-down... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Canwest Global CEO Leonard Asper said today that the changes in the media world and the slumping overall economy means that his company has only just begun the... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet will stream a UFC event on their website tonight for the first time. Beginning at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m.PT, Sportsnet will stream the weigh in of... Continue Reading
TORONTO - ACTRA and the Joint Producers (the Association of Canadian Advertisers and Institute of Communication Agencies) have reached a tentative settlement on local and regional television and radio commercial... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Friends of Canadian Broadcasting has a message for the Conservative party convention taking place in Winnipeg today: don’t cut funds to the CBC.The broadcast watchdog group has launched... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Radio host Louis Champagne’s “disparaging” comments about homosexuals contravene the Human Rights Clause of the CAB’s Code of Ethics, the CBSC ruled this week. The remarks occurred during... Continue Reading
OTTAWA - CanWest should divest itself of some of its media holdings rather than its employees, said Canada's largest media union today. "CanWest is a company too heavily burdened by... Continue Reading
TORONTO – After reading the internal memo sent to the employees of Canwest’s broadcasting division on Wednesday - which explained the job cuts - a few times, one thing is certain:... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Radio and TV broadcasters in Toronto need to dig into digital – in a hurry – because we’re falling behind the rest of the world, CRTC vice-chair, broadcasting,... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – A total of 15 applications have been submitted to the CRTC for new radio stations serving the Ontario cottage country communities of Orillia, Gravenhurst and Bracebridge. A number... Continue Reading
