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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GATINEAU – Like CTV beforehand, Canwest – in its second appearance at the CRTC’s OTA licence renewal hearings – focused on obtaining relief from certain of its programming obligations…
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LOS ANGELES – The Walt Disney Company is buying in to U.S. on-line video service Hulu as a joint venture partner and equity owner.
Founded in March 2007, Hulu is…
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GATINEAU – Bell Canada says it has continued to develop an interesting way for the conventional broadcast industry to go digital, but it is bumping up against stiff opposition…
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GATINEAU – This morning, CTV began its second appearance before the CRTC’s OTA licence renewal hearing this week with some tense exchanges with the panel’s commissioners, some unvarnished attacks…
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TORONTO – About two hours after having been informed by Cartt.ca that an offer to buy three troubled TV stations was coming from Shaw Communications, CTV said it will…
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