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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GATINEAU – Looking around the CRTC hearing room Tuesday in Gatineau many of the exact same faces were in the exact same places making the exact same cases as…
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OTTAWA – Six in ten Canadian voters believe that Prime Minister Harper and the Conservative government are “hostile” to the CBC/SRC, and would like to “diminish public broadcasting in…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC should “demand” public accountability from Canada’s broadcasters, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) said Wednesday.
In reference to this week’s over-the-air hearings…
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GATINEAU – April 27, 2009 – It was low-key, seldom confrontational and sometimes as languid as the 30-degree heat outside, but CTV’s appearance to open the CRTC’s OTA licence…
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TORONTO – A private member’s bill which would see artists recognized under Ontario’s Employment Standards Act has survived its second reading in Ontario’s legislature.
Bill 165, introduced by NDP…
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TORONTO – CBC has appointed Rachel Nixon as its director of digital media for CBC News.
Nixon, who will begin on June 1, is currently the global news director…
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