OTTAWA – The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has determined that a St. John’s radio station violated the contest provision of the Broadcast Code during a scavenger hunt-style contest…
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MONTREAL – Astral Media reported growth in net earnings, revenues, EBITDA and cash flow from continuing operations during its third quarter.
Consolidated net earnings from continuing operations for the…
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TORONTO – David Errington has been named as the new president and CEO of The National Broadcast Reading Service (NBRS) and The Accessible Channel (TACtv), effective immediately.
Errington was…
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TORONTO – Canada’s largest South Asian broadcaster, Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN), will launch three new Chinese channels and six new South Asian channels on Rogers Cable this Fall….
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TORONTO – VisionTV received more than 270 submissions in response to its call last May for original comedy-drama series proposals.
The multi-faith and multicultural network is looking for a series of…
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GATINEAU, QC – The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) is calling on the CRTC to “enshrine the principle of net neutrality”, saying that the Internet must…
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TORONTO – Thanks to the beefed up local programming improvement fund (LPIF), CTV will keep its ‘A’ Channel in Windsor open for at least for another year.
The…
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MONTREAL – Astral Media Radio is bringing the worldwide radio brand ‘NRJ’ to Quebec next month.
Beginning August 24, the ten radio stations in Quebec that comprise Astral’s current ‘Energie’…
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OTTAWA and TORONTO – Not surprisingly, Monday’s CRTC’s decisions were praised by industry associations like The Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) and the the Writers Guild of…
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BELOW ARE A FEW OF what we think are the main talking points we pulled from yesterday’s CRTC releases on the LPIF, individual broadcasters’ one-year license renewals and the…
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