TORONTO – Erica Benson has been named as vice-president of programming for Movie Central and SCREAM, while Ted Elis becomes vice-president of programming and production for CMT and Max…
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GATINEAU – “No amount of tinkering” can save this deal in the minds who run ACTRA, the actors union, whose president, Richard Hardacre addressed the CRTC this morning during…
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TORONTO – Women in Film and Television – Toronto (WIFT-T) and the Directors Guild of Canada – Ontario announced Tuesday that Alison Reid is the winner of the 2007…
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GATINEAU – In its final appearance back in front of the CRTC this afternoon, CanWest Global responded to requests and demands raised by the Commission panel and interveners over…
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OTTAWA – CBC Radio’s “The Sunday Edition” is planning a special taping to mark its 500th episode with a program featuring Giller Prize winner Elizabeth Hay, actors R.H. Thomson…
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TORONTO – The Score Television Network will for the first time broadcast the 2007 Desjardins Vanier Cup in high definition on November 23 at 7:30 p.m. The game will…
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GATINEAU – That sentence was one of the first few spoken by CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein this morning as the hearing into CanWest Global`s proposed purchase of the…
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GATINEAU – “Is this really the best deal we can get from a public interest point of view?” asked Alain Pineau of the Canadian Conference for the Arts this…
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OTTAWA – Four Canadian unions protested on Monday outside the CRTC public hearings, calling on the regulator to deny CanWest Global’s acquisition of Alliance Atlantis because it’s backed by…
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TORONTO – Sony Entertainment Television Asia (SET Asia) and NDTV, two channels owned by the Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN), have launched on Shaw Cable.
SET is a…
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