OTTAWA – Outgoing CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Robert Rabinovitch said Tuesday the public broadcaster needs a contract with Canadian in order to reach its potential before the Standing Committee…
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TORONTO – High Fidelity’s four high-definition, non-fiction TV channels – Equator HD, Oasis HD, Treasure HD and Rush HD – will launch on Aurora Cable on December 1.
The…
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CALGARY — The weekend highlights for the 37th Annual Juno Awards to be held in Calgary that culminate with The JUNO Awards broadcast on Sunday, April 6 on CTV…
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OTTAWA – Shaw Communications has taken aim again at the Canadian Television Fund. In a full-page advertisement on the back of the sports section of Saturday’s edition of the…
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TORONTO – Alanis Morissette, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, musician and producer, will be inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame on Friday, March 7.
She will be awarded with…
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NEW YORK – Discovery Channel Canada and Media International Corporation (MICO), the distribution arm of Japanese public broadcaster NHK, have signed a three-year program license agreement for a first…
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TORONTO – Paul Brandt was named Monday as the inaugural recipient of the Allan Waters Humanitarian Award and Moses Znaimer will receive the 2008 Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award…
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QUEBEC CITY – Canadian Heritage minister Josée Verner on Monday announced funding for a special broadcast of “La Fureur” on December 31, 2007, live from Quebec City.
The federal…
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TORONTO – Dave Ballingall, currently Rogers Sportsnet vice-president of marketing, has added the new role general manager of Sportsnet.ca to his duties.
“The new web general manager portfolio is…
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TORONTO – A national average audience of 3.337 million viewers tuned in to see the Saskatchewan Roughriders defeat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 23-19 on CBC on Sunday. The 95th…
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