TORONTO – The Canadian Television Fund (CTF) will hand out approximately $285 million to Canadian television producers this year through the broadcaster performance envelope stream.
The funds are earmarked…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC will hold a public hearing to determine whether the way that CBC re-branded specialty channel ‘Country Canada’ to ‘bold’ has negatively impacted “the integrity of…
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TORONTO – New York-based music subscription company Dada Entertainment launched its year-old service in Canada Tuesday, naming former Rogers Wireless exec Christopher Lam as its general manager.
The service,…
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TORONTO and OTTAWA – Television industry stakeholders continue to weigh in on the new Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced Monday.
CTV said in a statement…
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NEW YORK, NY – Time Warner Cable has launched ‘Primetime On Demand’, a free channel that they are calling a “window into television’s hottest programs”.
The channel will air…
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TORONTO – CTV-owned Business New Network (BNN) is airing live commercial spots for its advertiser Scotiabank.
Spots promoting the bank’s online investing service Scotia iTRADE are airing every hour…
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TORONTO – The first casualties of CBC’s long-rumoured programming cutbacks have been identified.
The public broadcaster announced Tuesday that it will drop two of its daytime shows. Lifestyles program ‘Steven and Chris’…
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TORONTO – Students from Canadore College, Centennial College, Fanshawe College, Humber College, Loyalist College, Mohawk College, Niagara College, Ryerson University, Seneca College and Sheridan Institute attended the Ontario Association…
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TORONTO – Getting funding to make television in Canada is about to get a whole lot different.
Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore announced today the Canadian Media Fund, a…
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TORONTO – Reaction to the new Canadian Media Fund (CMF) was predictably mixed, but the consensus seems to be that the distributors got what they wanted.
For starters, the…
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