GATINEAU – Of all the submissions we’ve heard over the past three weeks, Channel Zero’s boiled the issues down very well, kicking of its oral remarks on Wednesday. Cal Millar,... Continue Reading
LONDON, England – While only four per cent of global homes will actively watch high-definition TV programming by the end of 2008, this will represent nearly 44 million households. By... Continue Reading
TORONTO – For the first time, Canadian fans of ABC’s hit TV shows Lost, Grey’s Anatomy and Desperate Housewives can now watch episodes online at CTV.ca. CTV’s announcement today comes... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The CRTC today released financial results for the Canadian specialty, pay, pay-per-view television and video-on-demand services industry, which took in $2.7 billion in total revenues last year. This... Continue Reading
QUEBEC CITY – Remstar Corp., the future owner of the troubled Quebec TV network, TQS, caught its news staff by surprise Wednesday, announcing it intention to eliminate its entire news... Continue Reading
TORONTO – SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer and Drake & Josh will soon be available for download from iTunes, Corus Entertainment announced today. Episodes of seven popular Nickelodeon children’s series,... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – Sounding an awful lot like they’d be very interested in morphing one or both of LeafsTV and RaptorsTV into a more general purpose sports channel, Maple Leafs Sports... Continue Reading
TORONTO – OUTtv, Canada’s national gay and lesbian digital specialty channel, is licensing programming to OUTtv Media Group in the Netherlands, creating the first Dutch gay lifestyle television network. This... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – Canada’s largest media union had some harsh words for broadcasters and the CRTC itself at today’s hearing into BDU and specialty services policies. Broadcasters must be held to... Continue Reading
GATINEAU – The main attraction on Tuesday, day 10 of the hearing into the policies governing specialty channels and their carriers, was a posse of independent broadcasters arguing that the... Continue Reading
