WINNIPEG – After close to 20 years together waking up Winnipeg's Q94 FM (CHIQ) listeners, Beau Frietzche and Tom Milroy are now hosting the morning show on Q94's sister station,... Continue Reading
TORONTO – With the deal now mostly closed – pending CRTC approval of the regulated broadcast assets, of course – a number of Alliance Atlantis senior folks have left or... Continue Reading
WINNIPEG - CanWest Global said today that Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) approved CanWest's request to exchange its ordinary shares and convertible debentures of The Ten Group for ordinary... Continue Reading
NEW YORK and TORONTO – As we first reported last week, Hearst Corporation and Corus Entertainment have CRTC approval to launch Cosmo TV. The two companies issued a press release... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Estimates for the end of 2007 television sales in Canada show that flat panel plasma and LCD televisions will account for 61% of the over 3.2 million unit... Continue Reading
WINNIPEG and TORONTO - CanWest Global Communications and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners announced late Wednesday that they have completed the purchase of all of the outstanding shares of Alliance Atlantis Communications... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – A telephone sex line infomercial should not have aired at 3:30 in the afternoon, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said today The CBSC Ontario Regional Panel concluded that... Continue Reading
TORONTO – With this as the last set of publicly released financials from Alliance Atlantis prior to its sale, the company departs on a high note. For the second quarter... Continue Reading
TORONTO – CanWest is bringing Wii to the "Are You Smarter Than A Canadian Fifth Grader" party as part of its program integration, product placement, and associative branding elements of... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – It's not just the creative side of the industry that objects to the purchase of Alliance Atlantis by Goldman Sachs and CanWest Global (and even the directors and... Continue Reading