OTTAWA – Quebecor Media’s Sun TV and TVA Group, and Canwest Television have received CRTC approval to be governed by the new Journalistic Independence Code established by the Canadian…
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Registration is now open for the Association of Electronic Journalists’ 2009 central region professional development seminar and awards banquet.
Held June 26-27, 2009 at the Radisson Admiral Hotel in…
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TORONTO – Canwest Broadcasting interim president Peter Viner told staff in a memo today that while there has been interest in the company’s small chain of E!-branded TV stations,…
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GATINEAU – The Commission has added to what it wants discussed at next month’s conventional TV station license renewal narrow-hearing.
With the economic crisis fully blasting conventional TV’s ad…
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TORONTO – The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) says that “record-high revenues” for Canadian specialty, pay, pay-per-view television and video-on-demand (VOD) services prove that “that…
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MONTREAL – Calling itself “one of the country’s largest private investor in English and French-language content”, Astral Media said it invested close to $150 million in Canadian content development in…
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OTTAWA and GATINEAU – The Canadian specialty, pay, pay-per-view television and video-on-demand (VOD) services sector saw its total yearly revenues grow 7.6% to $2.9 billion, up from $2.7 billion in…
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TORONTO – In two submissions on separate files, independent broadcaster High Fidelity HDTV has asked the CRTC to allow more open competition among Canadian specialty service operators, or to…
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TORONTO – CBC English Services announced where, exactly, the money will be saved and employees let go which were originally made public yesterday.
On the English side, its portion…
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OTTAWA – Calling him “a new leader for challenging times”, the Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) has named industry veteran Norm Bolen as its new president and…
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