NEW YORK – Research firm The Stanford Group says there’s a 60% chance and Goldman Sachs puts the odds at just 30% that a merger between satellite radio rivals Sirius and... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Outgoing CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Robert Rabinovitch said Tuesday the public broadcaster needs a contract with Canadian in order to reach its potential before the Standing Committee on... Continue Reading
TORONTO – High Fidelity’s four high-definition, non-fiction TV channels – Equator HD, Oasis HD, Treasure HD and Rush HD – will launch on Aurora Cable on December 1. The cableco... Continue Reading
CALGARY -- The weekend highlights for the 37th Annual Juno Awards to be held in Calgary that culminate with The JUNO Awards broadcast on Sunday, April 6 on CTV have... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Shaw Communications has taken aim again at the Canadian Television Fund. In a full-page advertisement on the back of the sports section of Saturday’s edition of the Ottawa... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Alanis Morissette, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, musician and producer, will be inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame on Friday, March 7. She will be awarded with the... Continue Reading
NEW YORK – Discovery Channel Canada and Media International Corporation (MICO), the distribution arm of Japanese public broadcaster NHK, have signed a three-year program license agreement for a first look... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Paul Brandt was named Monday as the inaugural recipient of the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award and Moses Znaimer will receive the 2008 Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award in... Continue Reading
QUEBEC CITY – Canadian Heritage minister Josée Verner on Monday announced funding for a special broadcast of “La Fureur” on December 31, 2007, live from Quebec City. The federal government... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Dave Ballingall, currently Rogers Sportsnet vice-president of marketing, has added the new role general manager of Sportsnet.ca to his duties. “The new web general manager portfolio is an... Continue Reading
