TORONTO – Perhaps in preparation for its Olympic Game coverage next year, CTV has lined up an “unparalleled” broadcast plan for the 2009 Juno Awards on Sunday, offering coverage…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Canada’s most famous ‘hosers’, Bob and Doug McKenzie, are planning a return to television as part of a new animated series on Global aptly entitled Bob &…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Independent broadcaster Stornoway Communications, owner of diginets iChannel, The Pet Network and bpm:tv, have asked the CRTC to amend its broadcasting license for dance channel bpm:tv.
It…
Continue Reading
TORONTO – Event group nextMEDIA has kicked off a Canada-wide hunt for “the hottest emerging digital properties”, called ‘The Digital Hot List’.
The competition is open to content portals,…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – CTV, on behalf of its radio division Chum, and Harvard Broadcasting both resubmitted their bids for a new radio station in Edmonton to the CRTC Monday, and…
Continue Reading
WASHINGTON, DC – Nearly one in four attendees at this year’s National Association of Broadcasters Show is expected to come from outside of the U.S., demonstrating the global scale…
Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Telefilm Canada has renewed its Canada New Media Fund for another year, but has streamlined the process and aligned its application deadlines to close within the fiscal…
Continue Reading
REGINA – Saskatchewan educational broadcaster SCN has received a 31% increase in its broadcaster performance envelope from the Canadian Television Fund (CTF).
SCN’s total envelope for the 2009-2010 fiscal year is…
Continue Reading
OTTAWA – CBC has received approval from the CRTC to use a subsidiary communications multiplex operation (SCMO) channel in Vancouver to launch a Fijian-language radio service called Radio…
Continue Reading
PETIT-DE-GRAT, NS – The federal government has thrown its support behind a French-language minority community radio station called Cooperative Radio Richmond, located in Petit-de-Grat, Nova Scotia, population 454.
The…
Continue Reading