TORONTO – Nominations are now open, and the judges have been named for the 2009 Bessie Awards.
Deborah Prenger from Dentsu Canada; Dean Lee from DDB Vancouver; Karen Silver…
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TORONTO – Canwest Global Communications received a downgrade from Moody’s Investors Service after the ratings agency concluded that Canwest has “no meaningful ability to reduce its debts” for the…
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OTTAWA – The third Virgin radio station has launched in Canada, this time in Ottawa.
Astral Media-owned radio station The Bear 106.9 flipped to Virgin Radio 1069 late on Friday….
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TORONTO – Sports broadcast veteran Brian Williams will head up the 91 broadcasters and former Olympic athletes who will cover the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
English-language coverage will…
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VANCOUVER – Astral media launched its second Virgin radio station Thursday as Virgin Radio Vancouver replaced 95 Crave at the 95.3 location on the dial.
The station will focus on…
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TORONTO – Score Media reported a $1.2 million increase in revenue in their first quarter of fiscal 2009, a 13% jump over their first quarter of last year.
Revenue…
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MONTREAL – Radio-Canada received so many complaints about a show called ‘Bye Bye 2008’ that aired on New Years Eve, including a critical column in Tuesday’s Globe and Mail,…
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WASHINGTON – With 40 days to go before American TV broadcasters are supposed to shut off their analog transmissions, incoming U.S. president Barack Obama has indicated he wants to…
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OTTAWA – The Communications Research Centre (CRC) Canada won its second Emmy award at the Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards gala on Wednesday.
CRC is one of four organizations…
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TORONTO – ACTRA Toronto has elected Heather Allin as its new president for a two-year term.
Allin is a 15 year member of ACTRA Toronto, serving as councilor and…
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