THE SLINGBOX IS A cool little device – a neat-o box that lets users place shift their home TV – making their laptop into a second TV in the home,... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Seven months after XM Radio Canada owner John Bitove applied for a license for a new national over-the-air digital/high definition television license, the CRTC today called for other... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Rogers should spend as much money proportionately on Canadian programming on Citytv as it does on baseball players, says the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. CEP... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – Astral Media has met its goal of donating more than $3 million in advertising time to Dr. Clown, a Montreal-based non-profit, therapeutic clown organization. Astral launched the advertising... Continue Reading
BANFF – The Canadian Television Fund, saying it was responding to “a concern” but declining to name whose concern, said it would put off any changes to its bylaws until... Continue Reading
BANFF – If major broadcasters disagree over the direction of television over the next few years, how can any prognostications be correct? ESPN chairman emeritus Herbert Granath began the International... Continue Reading
BANFF – In the world according to Garvie – that’s Wayne Garvie, Director of Content and Production, BBC Worldwide – two truths are front and centre: producers and broadcasters can... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Recognizing that there was probably no way out of last week’s CRTC decision that disallowed the purchase of the Citytv franchise by CTV (a story first broken by... Continue Reading
BANFF – Heritage Minister Bev Oda told delegates Sunday afternoon that the government is renewing its contribution to the New Media Fund, earmarking $29 million over two years. While the... Continue Reading
BANFF - VisionTV and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) will team up to fund production of the six-part drama series “Rabbit Fall”, Canada’s multi-faith and multicultural broadcaster announced Monday... Continue Reading