Radio / Television News

Canwest content crew created

TORONTO – Barbara Williams, Canwest Broadcasting’s executive vice-president, content, made official her new direct reports last week, pulling together the assets of both Global Television and the newly acquired… Continue Reading

The TUESDAY INTERVIEW

WILL RETURN NEXT WEEK with S-Vox president and CEO Bill Roberts, who says independent broadcasters are the “canaries in the coal mine” and will be first to detect if… Continue Reading

Canwest shuffles sales deck

TORONTO – The line of direct reports to Errol Da-Ré, executive vice president, sales at Canwest Broadcasting has been clarified. This announcement follows the CRTC’s recent approval of Canwest’s… Continue Reading

Fox signs deal with Super Channel

LOS ANGELES and EDMONTON – Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution and Allarco Entertainment have signed a multi-year feature film output agreement. Under this new deal, a broad selection of… Continue Reading

Nelvana adds another distributor

LAS VEGAS – ReelTime.com, a “video-on-demand Internet television network,” announced today at NATPE 2008 that it has entered into an agreement with Nelvana Enterprises, Corus Entertainment’s content arm, for… Continue Reading

Consumers value local news: poll

OTTAWA – A new study of cable/satellite TV subscribers commissioned by Canwest and CTV released today says that while a large majority of Canadians value local news programs more… Continue Reading