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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WASHINGTON – Nearly 6.4 million “over-the-air” U.S.TV households, those that rely on an antenna for broadcast TV, have requested about 12 million coupons from the TV converter box coupon…
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OTTAWA – French language viewers will soon be able to combine the thrills of wakeboarding with learning how to make the perfect omelette. The CRTC today approved two national…
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TORONTO, – The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), has announced a number of internal staff promotions.
Phillip Notley has been named vice-president, strategic marketing and communications; Chris…
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TORONTO – ACTRA and the Directors Guild have both added their voices to the chorus condemning the federal government’s cuts to arts funding programs.
“These cuts are shocking and short-sighted,…
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OTTAWA – This week the CAB filed its objections to SOCAN’s proposed tariffs for 2009 for commercial television (SOCAN Tariff 2.A), specialty and pay (SOCAN Tariff 17), radio (SOCAN…
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TORONTO – Can there be a thing as too many major league sports? Well, definitely if you can’t broadcast them all. TSN had that problem. The solution, launch a…
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