TORONTO – CTVglobemedia has sold off half of its interest in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd.(MLSE), owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Toronto Raptors and Toronto FC sports teams,…
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MONTREAL – Viewers of Le Reseau des Sports’ (RDS) coverage of Super Bowl XLIII will be able to click through from commercials to long form video content on demand.
Both…
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TORONTO – The Radio Marketing Bureau has announced their 2009 board of directors:
Gary Belgrave, President, Radio Marketing Bureau Derek Berghuis, Second Vice Chair, Rogers Radio Glenn Chalmers, Astral…
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NEW YORK – Huge American media company Viacom has announced that it will also cut jobs, about 850, and restructure its organization.
Approximately 7% of its workforce will be…
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TORONTO – Peter Vamos is the new executive director of Banff World Television Festival.
Formerly the publisher of Playback Magazine, Vamos will report to Festival CEO Robert Montgomery, who…
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MONTREAL – Astral Media will re-format three more of its radio stations under the Virgin brand.
The stations now known as 95 Crave (95.3 FM) in Vancouver, The Bear…
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HUBERT LACROIX’S EXCELLENT article on CBC’s web and digital activities has one flaw, it aggrandizes the audience numbers of cbc.ca, which by any measure are small compared to…
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TORONTO – Canadian actor Peter Keleghan will receive ACTRA Toronto’s highest honour – the ACTRA Award of Excellence.
The award recognizes both an outstanding body of work by a performer…
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TORONTO – Digital media distribution company Yangaroo has extended its agreement with Warner Music Canada for another two years.
Warner has been using the digital media distribution system commercially…
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TORONTO – About 100 people have been let go from the media division at Rogers Communications.
That includes those working for the television side (Citytv, OMNI, Sportsnet, Biography, G4TechTV,…
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