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TORONTO – CBC English Services announced where, exactly, the money will be saved and employees let go which were originally made public yesterday.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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WINNIPEG – Aboriginal broadcaster APTN has re-launched its website, and is exploring ways to offer its content across multiple platforms such as mobile and “various video delivery systems”.
The site features…
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TORONTO – Digital media distribution company Yangaroo said it was successful in its goal of making the 2009 Juno Awards cheaper and a little greener.
Using its digital…
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TORONTO – Television news channel CP24 will debut a new morning news show and radio station beginning Thursday morning.
Called ‘CP24 Breakfast’, the 3.5 hour news program pledges to deliver…
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