LONDON, England – While only four per cent of global homes will actively watch high-definition TV programming by the end of 2008, this will represent nearly 44 million households….
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TORONTO – For the first time, Canadian fans of ABC’s hit TV shows Lost, Grey’s Anatomy and Desperate Housewives can now watch episodes online at CTV.ca.
CTV’s announcement today…
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OTTAWA – The CRTC today released financial results for the Canadian specialty, pay, pay-per-view television and video-on-demand services industry, which took in $2.7 billion in total revenues last year….
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QUEBEC CITY – Remstar Corp., the future owner of the troubled Quebec TV network, TQS, caught its news staff by surprise Wednesday, announcing it intention to eliminate its entire…
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TORONTO – SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer and Drake & Josh will soon be available for download from iTunes, Corus Entertainment announced today.
Episodes of seven popular Nickelodeon children’s…
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GATINEAU – Sounding an awful lot like they’d be very interested in morphing one or both of LeafsTV and RaptorsTV into a more general purpose sports channel, Maple Leafs…
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TORONTO – OUTtv, Canada’s national gay and lesbian digital specialty channel, is licensing programming to OUTtv Media Group in the Netherlands, creating the first Dutch gay lifestyle television network….
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GATINEAU – Canada’s largest media union had some harsh words for broadcasters and the CRTC itself at today’s hearing into BDU and specialty services policies.
Broadcasters must be held…
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GATINEAU – The main attraction on Tuesday, day 10 of the hearing into the policies governing specialty channels and their carriers, was a posse of independent broadcasters arguing that…
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OTTAWA – CTVglobemedia has penned its own letter to the Prime Minister asking that Stephen Harper not follow the advice of Shaw Communications CEO Jim Shaw and instead let…
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