TORONTO – The North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) has appointed John A. Harding as executive director effective August 26th, 2008. NABA’s board of directors say Harding’s “unique set of…
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NEW DELHI – Montreal-based MediaScrape, described as the "CNN of the Internet,” announced today it has completed a broadcast deal with the leading news broadcaster of South Asia, Asian…
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OTTAWA – Fox Sports World Canada got body slammed by The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) for running a promotional spot for the International Fight League (IFL) that included…
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TORONTO – The release of July TRAM statistics shows an increase of 7% year-over-year for radio sales across Canada’s 12 largest markets reports Genuity Capital Markets.
Seasonally speaking, radio ad…
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VANCOUVER – Canwest Broadcasting has named Kenton Boston to the position of vice-president of Global National News and Neill Fitzpatrick as Global National’s executive producer.
Boston’s new responsibilities as vice-president…
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TORONTO – The CBC officially announced its controversial revamp of its Radio 2 network today with the introduction of more popular and cross cultural music and a de-emphasizing its…
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MONTREAL – Astral Media Radio, has announced the closure of its on-line and television classified ad division TATV, previously Télé-Annonces. The decision to shut down the service takes effect…
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TORONTO – CBC Television attracted its largest audience yet for the Olympic Games last night (Mon. Aug. 25), as an average of 1.590 million viewers tuned into Olympic Prime…
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TORONTO – “It’s all good” for CHNU-TV in Vancouver and CIIT-TV in Winnipeg which relaunch Sept. 1 under the new brand name Joytv.
The stations, officially designated Joytv…
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TORONTO – Ron Laidlaw, who helped create Canada’s first hour-long evening newscast has died.
Laidlaw passed away last night in London. Ron Laidlaw was 88 years old. Ron served…
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