QUEBEC CITY – Remstar Corp., the future owner of the troubled Quebec TV network, TQS, caught its news staff by surprise Wednesday, announcing it intention to eliminate its entire…
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TORONTO – SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer and Drake & Josh will soon be available for download from iTunes, Corus Entertainment announced today.
Episodes of seven popular Nickelodeon children’s…
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GATINEAU – Sounding an awful lot like they’d be very interested in morphing one or both of LeafsTV and RaptorsTV into a more general purpose sports channel, Maple Leafs…
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TORONTO – OUTtv, Canada’s national gay and lesbian digital specialty channel, is licensing programming to OUTtv Media Group in the Netherlands, creating the first Dutch gay lifestyle television network….
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GATINEAU – Canada’s largest media union had some harsh words for broadcasters and the CRTC itself at today’s hearing into BDU and specialty services policies.
Broadcasters must be held…
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GATINEAU – The main attraction on Tuesday, day 10 of the hearing into the policies governing specialty channels and their carriers, was a posse of independent broadcasters arguing that…
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OTTAWA – CTVglobemedia has penned its own letter to the Prime Minister asking that Stephen Harper not follow the advice of Shaw Communications CEO Jim Shaw and instead let…
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MONTREAL – GM Optimum announced today it is launching a “telescopic” advertising campaign on etc.tv’s ads-on-demand network in Quebec.
Developed by Cossette Media, the campaign allows TV viewers to…
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OTTAWA – A 2007 episode of the dramatic action program 24 – in which terrorists use a drill to torture Carlo Rota’s character – did not violate the Canadian…
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OF ALL THE CONFLICTING complaints we’ve heard so far about the hearing still ongoing in Gatineau which will decide the future policies to govern specialty channels and BDUs, the…
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