OTTAWA – Canada’s independent producers on Thursday called on a Senate committee to amend Bill C-10 so that the Criminal Code becomes the standard for determining what’s “contrary to…
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GATINEAU – What would have been fun, was a debate.
Day three of the CRTC hearings into BDU and specialty service regulations featured the Canadian Association of Broadcasters and…
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GATINEAU – “Overall, television itself as an advertising medium, remains very strong,” the Association of Canadian Advertisers vice-president of policy and research, Bob Reaume, told the CRTC this morning….
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WINNIPEG – Slow ad sales caused partly by the writers’ strike south of the border led Canwest Global Communications Corp. to post a $33.9 million loss in the second quarter…
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TORONTO – Revenues from its broadcasting businesses boosted Corus Entertainment’s net income for the second quarter ended February 29 to $35.4 million from $19.5 million in the same quarter…
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TORONTO – CBC Sports has signed a three-year broadcast deal with the Calgary Stampede that runs from July 2008 to 2010.
The public broadcaster will air more than 90…
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TORONTO – Canwest Broadcasting announced Thursday that it will have three new digital transmitters up-and-running in Ontario and B.C. on April 18. As a result, Global Ontario, Global BC…
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GATINEAU – Bell Canada offered a potential solution to the cost problems facing the build-out of high definition by local Canadian broadcasters.
All conventional broadcasters have complained that replacing…
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TORONTO – Score Media Inc. said Thursday its coverage of NCAA March Madness resulted in more people watching on all platforms, including TV, online and mobile. Score Media is…
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REGINA – CTV’s comedy series Corner Gas will end with the upcoming sixth season, creator and star Brent Butt announced Thursday. When the last episode airs sometime in the…
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