Radio / Television News

Nelvana content goes abroad

TORONTO – Corus Entertainment’s Nelvana has partnered with Tribal Nova to offer children’s content on-line through a dedicated portal in the U.S., U.K., France and parts of French-speaking Europe. Called… Continue Reading

Viva revives an analog slot

TORONTO – So this is why Corus Entertainment paid $73 million for Canadian Learning Television. CLT, licensed by the CRTC in 1996 and launched as one of the final… Continue Reading

CTV cuts 105 jobs

TORONTO – CTV announced 105 job cuts today, most of them in Toronto, and many of those are reportedly coming from the 299 Queen St. W. location. The announcement… Continue Reading

ACTRA accepts new ads pact

TORONTO – ACTRA has voted “yes” to a new three year agreement for the National Commercial Agreement (NCA), ratifying the decision by 96.6%. The NCA, negotiated between ACTRA and… Continue Reading

3D, IPTV, mobile, and more at NAB

WASHINGTON, DC – New to the 2009 NAB Show will be pavilions and exhibitors dedicated to the latest developments in 3D, mobile solutions, IPTV and content, show organizers announced…. Continue Reading

Cruickshank departs CBC

TORONTO – CBC News publisher John Cruickshank will be leaving the broadcaster to return to his newspaper roots. Cruickshank, 55, has been appointed publisher of the Toronto Star, Canada’s… Continue Reading

Pattison can’t have B.C. station

GATINEAU – Shrinking the authorized contour of an FM station so that buying the station won’t violate the CRTC’s common ownership policies, is no way for a station to… Continue Reading

Super Chanel funding 36 new projects

EDMONTON – Canada’s national pay television network Super Channel is financing 36 new Canadian projects, the company announced. After receiving its first year of development funding, the network announced that… Continue Reading

Go to Prime Time, get an iPod Touch

OTTAWA – The Canadian Film and Television Production Association (CFTPA) has announced that their upcoming conference in Ottawa will be the first-ever paperless event of its kind in the… Continue Reading