WINNIPEG and AUCKLAND - CanWest Global Communications is officially getting out of New Zealand. The company announced this morning that its subsidiary, CanWest MediaWorks Ireland Holdings (CMIH), has accepted a... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC will issue its decision on the purchase of CHUM Ltd. by CTVglobemedia tomorrow morning, Cartt.ca has learned. It's a stunningly quick decision, given the size of... Continue Reading
BANFF and TORONTO – While Canada's telecommunications leaders debate the future of telecom in Toronto at the Canadian Telecom Summit next week, the world's leaders in digital media and television... Continue Reading
VANCOUVER – Beginning next year, Global National's Kevin Newman will be the sole national broadcast TV anchor to be based and broadcast out of Ottawa. CanWest MediaWorks today announced that... Continue Reading
TORONTO - After facing a number of protesting Canadian actors outside of Massey Hall who complained about the number of hours of American programming, CanWest Global led its fall programming... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Canadian actors used CanWest Global's upfront presentation today to protest the purchase of American programming for airing on prime time on Canadian broadcasters. CTV and Global each revealed... Continue Reading
TORONTO - In a presentation Wednesday morning at Toronto's Massey Hall, followed by an open-air luncheon in the city's multimedia hub, Yonge-Dundas Square, some 1,400 advertisers, industry and press gathered... Continue Reading
TORONTO – While saying the Canadian broadcasting system, as it now stands, may face "imminent collapse" due to pressures all around from the numerous platforms Canadians view video, the 2007... Continue Reading
CALGARY – Proposed changes to bylaws coming at next week's annual general meeting of the Canadian Television Fund "seems to fly in the face of common sense," says a tersely-worded... Continue Reading
TORONTO - Larche Communications and Rogers Communications today announced a swap of two Ontario radio stations. Larche, which already operates another station in central Ontario, agreed to acquire CICX FM... Continue Reading
