Radio / Television News

TQS attracts four purchase offers

MONTREAL – Four unnamed suitors have submitted bids for Quebec’s financially strapped TQS television network, but neither Rogers Communications nor RNC Média (Radio Nord Communications), who have been rumoured… Continue Reading

The Hat gets new rock station

MEDICINE HAT – The region is a country hotbed but today Rogers Broadcasting launched new FM radio station Rock 105.3 in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The first rock station in… Continue Reading

CBC gains three new board members

OTTAWA – Linda Black, Mary McNeil, and Brian Mitchell have been added to the board of directors of CBC/Radio-Canada announced Josee Verner, Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women… Continue Reading

Astral adds a Big Dog

REGINA – After three weeks of testing its signal, Regina’s True Country, Big Dog 92-7 officially launched Wednesday with ‘Gone Country’, the mega-hit from country music superstar Alan Jackson…. Continue Reading

CBC debuts new structure

TORONTO – CBC English Services unwrapped its new organizational structure, “bringing radio, television and digital platforms into alignment under one integrated management framework,” says the companys internal memo to… Continue Reading

Government to make CTF call

OTTAWA – The answer to the question of what’s going to happen to the Canadian Television Fund won’t be coming from the CRTC after all. Less than two weeks… Continue Reading

Making lemonade…

TORONTO – You plan and you plan for a big TV change – one of the biggest, really – how your network will appear on screen. You decide on… Continue Reading