ARLINGTON,VA – This year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will feature 300 new exhibitors, joining the more than 2,700 exhibiting companies who span 30 product categories across 1.7 million net square... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Canadian broadcaster and journalist John Roberts will be inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Industry Hall of Fame as part of Canadian Music Week in March. Roberts currently anchors... Continue Reading
OTTAWA - The Canadian Association of Broadcasters may undergo some restructuring, its members were told this week. Last month, the CAB’s board of directors appointed a working group to conduct... Continue Reading
TORONTO – CTVglobemedia has sold off half of its interest in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd.(MLSE), owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors and Toronto FC sports teams, as... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Viewers of Le Reseau des Sports’ (RDS) coverage of Super Bowl XLIII will be able to click through from commercials to long form video content on demand.Both the... Continue Reading
TORONTO – The Radio Marketing Bureau has announced their 2009 board of directors: Gary Belgrave, President, Radio Marketing Bureau Derek Berghuis, Second Vice Chair, Rogers Radio Glenn Chalmers, Astral Media... Continue Reading
NEW YORK - Huge American media company Viacom has announced that it will also cut jobs, about 850, and restructure its organization. Approximately 7% of its workforce will be lost... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Peter Vamos is the new executive director of Banff World Television Festival. Formerly the publisher of Playback Magazine, Vamos will report to Festival CEO Robert Montgomery, who is... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Astral Media will re-format three more of its radio stations under the Virgin brand. The stations now known as 95 Crave (95.3 FM) in Vancouver, The Bear (106.9... Continue Reading
HUBERT LACROIX'S EXCELLENT article on CBC's web and digital activities has one flaw, it aggrandizes the audience numbers of cbc.ca, which by any measure are small compared to conventional CBC... Continue Reading
