OTTAWA – While operating revenues for TV broadcasting companies continue to rise, profits fell sharply last year according to Statistics Canada. Overall, revenues for the television broadcasting industry just topped... Continue Reading
TORONTO – The unitholders of CanWest MediaWorks Income Fund voted in favour of the special resolution approving the privatization of the Fund, it was announced today by the Fund and... Continue Reading
TORONTO – ACTRA performers ratified a one-year extension of their National Commercial Agreement late last week. The agreement is negotiated between ACTRA and the Institute of Communications and Advertising (ICA),... Continue Reading
TORONTO – The Writers Guild of Canada has come out in opposition to the CRTC Task Force on the Canadian Television Fund. Oddly, while directing pointed criticism at Shaw Communications... Continue Reading
JACKSON POINT, Ont. – As part of a wide-ranging new media study, the CRTC will look at myriad issues, even discussing whether or not to regulate new media in Canada,... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Canadian Idol executive producer John Brunton took the unusual step Thursday to complain publicly about how viewers are affecting his show. "Last night's elimination of three competitors from... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – There will be a new way of doing things when it comes to funding home-grown television, if the recommendations from the Task Force Report on The Canadian Television... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – In its application to purchase the five Citytv broadcast stations, Rogers Communications has told the CRTC it will voluntarily divest its two Christian OMNI stations in Winnipeg and... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Business continues to boom for private radio in terms of national ad sales, which rose 6.1% in the third quarter of this fiscal compared with the same time... Continue Reading
TORONTO and NEW YORK – CTVglobemedia already airs The Daily Show and The Colbert Report on two of its platforms (the main network and The Comedy Network), so it only... Continue Reading
