OTTAWA – A fund aimed at supporting not-for-profit, local radio that launched Thursday will dole out $1.4 million over seven years. Seed money for the fund, called the Community…
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HAMILTON – Corus Radio’s Y108 will be the first Canadian FM station to simulcast a CFL football game when it picks up the feed of Hamilton Tiger-Cats games from…
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TORONTO – Corner Gas star Brett Butt will be awarded The Comedy Network Sir Peter Ustinov Award on June 9 at the 29th Banff World Television Festival, running June…
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OTTAWA – The Canadian Broadcasting Corp./Radio-Canada asked the CRTC this week to order satellite TV distributor Star Choice to immediately include RDI in its digital basic to subscribers in…
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TORONTO – North America’s first user-generated mobile picture messaging service on broadcast television has launched on CTV Inc.’s digital channel PunchMuch.
Viewers can now send pictures to be broadcast…
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TORONTO – The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists (ACTRA) blasts Canadian broadcasters in a media release Wednesday as they gear up to spend millions on U.S….
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TORONTO – Women in Film and Television-Toronto (WIFT-T) on Wednesday announced four new members were added to its 2008 Board of Directors: Gaye McDonald (Vice-President of Brand Partnerships at…
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TORONTO – U.S. Internet TV leader Sanjay Desai headlines the “Putting the Network into the Net: New Digital Business Models for Broadcasters” session scheduled for May 22 in Toronto.
Desai…
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GATINEAU – When rookie CRTC commissioner Michel Morin first unveiled his possible points plan for specialty channels during last month’s BDU and specialty policy hearing, many were left scratching…
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TORONTO – Women in Film and Television-Toronto (WIFT-T) announced Tuesday that Métis filmmaker, actor, and human rights activist Michelle Latimer is the winner of the 2008 Astral Media Mentorship…
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