WINNIPEG – Canwest Global Communications, which owns approximately 57% of Ten Network Holdings, announced that the Australian company saw decreases in revenue and EBITDA in their first quarter of…
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HAMILTON – Cartt.ca has added industry veteran Lesley Hunter as a senior writer.
A graduate of the Carleton University journalism program, Hunter has been in the TV biz for a…
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TORONTO – After a16-year run on CBC television, the Royal Canadian Air Farce will sign off for good on New Year’s Eve.
Their final episode, called Air Farce New…
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CHARLOTTE, N.C.- Speed has promoted Hawley Chester to vice president of Canadian sales and marketing for the motor sports and automotive lifestyle network.
Chester, who has been the director…
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TORONTO – CTV announced that Canadian Idol will "rest" for the 2009 broadcast year "as a result of the current economic climate."
But the popular amateur singing contest has not…
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TORONTO – The Radio Marketing Bureau and BBM will sponsor a PPM Symposium as part of Canadian Advertising Week next month in Toronto.
The event, scheduled for January 29, 2009,…
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DARTMOUTH – Radio is not thought of as a sexy media any more. It’s now called "traditional media" or "old media," or worse.
Despite its easy ubiquity, many mouthy…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC has dismissed complaints against TSN2 from rival sports networks, saying the sports channel does have the authority to time-shift the programming it offers on its…
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OTTAWA – Canadian Association of Broadcasters president and CEO Glenn O’Farrell announced today he will be leaving the association early in 2009.
He has been CEO of the organization…
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GENEVA – The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has accepted the first global standard offering an in-home, high-speed network capable of delivering room-to-room HDTV.
The standard, published under the G.hn…
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