TORONTO – Estimates for the end of 2007 television sales in Canada show that flat panel plasma and LCD televisions will account for 61% of the over 3.2 million unit... Continue Reading
WINNIPEG and TORONTO - CanWest Global Communications and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners announced late Wednesday that they have completed the purchase of all of the outstanding shares of Alliance Atlantis Communications... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – A telephone sex line infomercial should not have aired at 3:30 in the afternoon, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said today The CBSC Ontario Regional Panel concluded that... Continue Reading
TORONTO – With this as the last set of publicly released financials from Alliance Atlantis prior to its sale, the company departs on a high note. For the second quarter... Continue Reading
TORONTO – CanWest is bringing Wii to the "Are You Smarter Than A Canadian Fifth Grader" party as part of its program integration, product placement, and associative branding elements of... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – It's not just the creative side of the industry that objects to the purchase of Alliance Atlantis by Goldman Sachs and CanWest Global (and even the directors and... Continue Reading
MIRABEL, Que. – Canadian manufacturer Kangaroo Media will see its in-stadium multimedia service expanded into additional National Football League stadiums this coming fall. Kangaroo and DirecTV announced the expansion of... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Saying that the proposed sale of Alliance Atlantis violates Canadian media foreign ownership rules, the Coalition of Canadian Audio Visual Unions has told the CRTC the deal must... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Corus Entertainment has agreed to sell its Quebec City AM news station, CHRC (Info 800 AM) to a local group which includes former Montreal Canadiens goalie Patrick Roy.... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Personnel substitutions are the name of the game this off-season at Canada's most venerable sports property as new on-air faces and a new executive producer will take Hockey... Continue Reading
