OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC has granted a Cat 2 licence to operate a horror genre specialty channel, over the objections of The Movie Network and MPix. The commission has granted... Continue Reading
by Myron Love WINNIPEG -- CJOB, Winnipeg’s most listened to radio station, is applying to the CRTC to simulcast on FM as well as AM. “It’s not that we want... Continue Reading
TORONTO – We’ve all seen the jump by TV shows to broadcast on the Web. The tide the other way round is heading to Alliance Atlantis. Original online content produced by... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Moody’s Investors Service has assigned ratings to the new debt instruments of CW Media Holdings Inc., the company that will hold specialty channels to be acquired from Alliance... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC has approved an application for a new English-language digital channel providing described video programming for the blind and visually impaired. The commission will grant a licence... Continue Reading
TORONTO – VisionTV has vowed to never again air lectures by an Islamic preacher with self-professed “radical” views after some viewers complained bitterly of a recent broadcast. The network has... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Live coverage of the Montreal Dawson College shooting on Vancouver’s CKNW could have been “lethal” for the students still trapped on campus as events unfolded, the Canadian Broadcast... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Score Media now has 120 days to find a buyer after minority shareholder Alliance Atlantis turned down a chance to buy the company whose central asset is analog... Continue Reading
RESTON, Va. – New data from digital media measurement company Comscore says that 75% of American Internet users streamed video online in May and that the average streamer watched over... Continue Reading
ALVISO, Calif. – Tivo, one of the creators of the digital video recorder market, has released its first monthly set of commercial ratings. Using TiVo’s StopWatch service’s ability to track... Continue Reading