MONTREAL – BCE announced Monday it has written confirmation from the CRTC that it had met the regulator’s conditions of sale with “two minor exceptions,” just as media…
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OTTAWA – George Cooper and the Honourable Joseph Handley have been named to the board of directors of the CBC/Radio-Canada, it was announced Friday by Canadian Heritage.
Handley is…
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TORONTO –The 90210 spinoff was among the acquisitions Canwest picked up for the 2008-2009 fall season for Global Television and E!, it was announced Friday.
In total, Canwest acquired…
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MONTREAL – CBC/Radio-Canada said Thursday it would be promoting Quebec City’s 400th anniversary celebrations across all of its platforms (TV, radio and Internet).
The public broadcaster’s initiatives include setting up…
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OTTAWA – G. Grant Machum has been appointed to the board of Telefilm Canada, it was announced Friday by Canadian Heritage.
Machum is a partner in the law firm…
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CALGARY – Star Choice lashed out at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. on Friday, accusing it of misleading the public over carriage issues around the CBC Saskatchewan TV channel and Continue Reading
TORONTO – Rogers Sportsnet’s new studio won the Award of Excellence in the engineering category at the 18th annual Steel Design Awards sponsored by the Ontario region of…
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TORONTO – The two Canadian sports network titans are finally apart.
For over seven years, Rogers Sportsnet and TSN, the top two sports channels in Canada, were cheek to…
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OTTAWA – The defunct Doc Mailloux’s open-line talk show on Montreal’s CKAC violated several broadcaster codes with its explicit sex talk, its degrading remarks about women, and racist comments,…
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TORONTO – CTV on Thursday launched a new user-generated news website, MyNews.ctv.ca.
Canadians are now able to upload interesting video or images to MyNews.CTV.ca for consideration for broadcast on…
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