TORONTO – Jennifer McGuire has been confirmed as the new general manager and editor-in-chief of CBC News, effective immediately, the public broadcaster announced Wednesday.
The former executive director of…
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WINNIPEG – Canwest Global said this morning today that its subsidiary, Canwest Media Inc and its senior lenders have agreed to extend the waiver of certain borrowing conditions again,…
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HE HAS A PAIR OF BlackBerrys on his desk, but his iPhone is what’s tucked in his jacket pocket. It goes with him always and everywhere.
He was first…
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TORONTO – Rogers Broadcasting has received CRTC approval to buy radio stations K-Rock and KIX Country in Kingston, Ontario.
Rogers purchased a minority interest in these stations in 2000,…
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ST CATHARINES, ON – World Impact Ministries (WIM), a Canadian based religious charity known for media and international work, has received the go ahead from the CRTC to buy The…
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GATINEAU – James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, talked up the pending arrival of the new Canada Media Fund at the annual convention of the…
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WINNIPEG – One of these deadlines has got to be the real one. It’s May 5th and CanWest Global Communications faces yet another deadline with its lenders and bondholders….
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TORONTO – The new agreement between ACTRA, the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) and l’Association des producteurs de films et de télévision du Québec (APFTQ) was brokered…
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MONTREAL – Astral Media urged the government to proceed with “caution” before amending any broadcast industry regulations, and encouraged a thorough examination of “the broader matrix of rules that serve to…
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MONTREAL – Astral Media raised more than $7 million in its one-day ‘radiothon’ last Thursday in support of 20 children’s hospitals and health care facilities.
More than 50 radio stations in…
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