TORONTO – Canadian on-line advertising revenues exceeded expectations in 2008, growing 29% to just over $1.6 billion, says a report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada (IAB).
Publisher revenue from…
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HAMILTON, ON – Canwest has told CHCH TV retirees that it will be winding up the CHCH TV pension plan effective August 31, 2009.
The retirees were also told that the plan…
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TORONTO – Astral Media Radio Sales has taken over national sales representation of The New AM 740 (CFZM) in Toronto, the adult standards formatted radio station owned by MZ…
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TORONTO – Score Media has named Susan Arthur its new vice president of marketing and brand strategy.
Arthur was recently responsible for content integration at Insight Productions, and also worked at…
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“YOU DON’T HAVE TO be a genius to know that consumers’ expectations are different than what they once were,” understates the Olympic Broadcast Consortium’s Alon Marcovici while discussing the…
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SANTA MONICA and VANCOUVER – In a move designed to bolster its programming and attract new viewers, TV Guide Network has acquired the exclusive basic cable off-network rights to…
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MONTREAL – Telefilm Canada will fund 56 new media projects through the product assistance component of the Canada New Media Fund (CNMF) for 2009-2010.
The projects selected from across Canada…
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TORONTO – TSN is making its broadcasts of CFL games available for download at the iTunes store in Canada.
Individual regular season games are available for $2.49 per match-up -…
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OTTAWA – The CBC has formerly applied to amend the broadcast licence of its specialty channel ‘bold’, formerly known as ‘Country Canada’.
The pubcaster re-launched its category 1 specialty Country…
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TORONTO – After more than 40 years at CTV, Malcolm Fox will retire as executive producer of W-FIVE effective September 1, 2009.
Fox’s career began in the late 1960s with…
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