TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet’s new studio won the Award of Excellence in the engineering category at the 18th annual Steel Design Awards sponsored by the Ontario region of the Canadian... Continue Reading
TORONTO – The two Canadian sports network titans are finally apart. For over seven years, Rogers Sportsnet and TSN, the top two sports channels in Canada, were cheek to cheek... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The defunct Doc Mailloux’s open-line talk show on Montreal’s CKAC violated several broadcaster codes with its explicit sex talk, its degrading remarks about women, and racist comments, the... Continue Reading
TORONTO – CTV on Thursday launched a new user-generated news website, MyNews.ctv.ca. Canadians are now able to upload interesting video or images to MyNews.CTV.ca for consideration for broadcast on local... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – A fund aimed at supporting not-for-profit, local radio that launched Thursday will dole out $1.4 million over seven years. Seed money for the fund, called the Community Radio... Continue Reading
HAMILTON – Corus Radio’s Y108 will be the first Canadian FM station to simulcast a CFL football game when it picks up the feed of Hamilton Tiger-Cats games from brother... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Corner Gas star Brett Butt will be awarded The Comedy Network Sir Peter Ustinov Award on June 9 at the 29th Banff World Television Festival, running June 8-11.... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The Canadian Broadcasting Corp./Radio-Canada asked the CRTC this week to order satellite TV distributor Star Choice to immediately include RDI in its digital basic to subscribers in Anglophone... Continue Reading
TORONTO – North America’s first user-generated mobile picture messaging service on broadcast television has launched on CTV Inc.’s digital channel PunchMuch. Viewers can now send pictures to be broadcast on... Continue Reading
TORONTO – The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) blasts Canadian broadcasters in a media release Wednesday as they gear up to spend millions on U.S. film... Continue Reading
