TORONTO – Corus Radio is launching public service announcements and on-air content to encourage listeners to “shop local” and support local businesses in their communities.
The campaign, designed to…
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TORONTO – Access Communications and SaskTel are adding Family Channel’s on demand platform to their digital lineups.
Astral’s Family OnDemand offers programming from both Family Channel and Playhouse Disney,…
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OTTAWA – Before the “economic downturn,” before the impressive decline in advertising revenues and even before the 2008 upfront ad sales began in earnest, the volume of Canadian television…
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TORONTO – With several reporters pursuing tips and rumours asking if and when Canwest Global will seek bankruptcy protection (this reporter, too), company CEO Leonard Asper sent a memo…
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TORONTO – CanWest Global Communications CEO Leonard Asper is desperately trying to secure hundreds of millions in new credit in an attempt to shore up the ailing newspaper and…
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TORONTO – CTV’s Dave Devall, and Peter Silverman from Citytv Toronto have been chosen as this year’s recipients of the Radio-Television News Directors’ Association (RTNDA) Lifetime Achievement Award by The Association…
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LOS ANGELES and TORONTO – CTV’s original Canadian drama series ‘The Bridge’ has been picked up by CBS for broadcast in the US.
In development since 2005, CTV originally…
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TORONTO – ‘Harmonization in the Digital Age’ is the theme for this year’s North American Broadcasters Association’s (NABA) annual conference to be held June 3-5 in Washington, DC.
Other…
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OTTAWA – Gordon Ritchie had a lot more success negotiating the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement than he has had trying to inch Canada’s broadcasters toward a Terms of Trade…
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WASHINGTON, DC – More than 70 new exhibitors, including Electronic Arts, Phillips 3D Solutions and 3ality Digital, will join 1,600 companies on the show floor at the 2009 NAB…
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