OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC on Thursday turned down HDTV Networks Inc.’s bid for a licence to operate a national, English-language high-definition over-the-air TV service (Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-75).
“HDTV…
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TORONTO – CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada will be broadcasting live and on-demand select games of the 2008 Stanley Cup playoffs in Mandarin at CBCSports.ca.
“CBC is committed to…
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OAKVILLE, ON – The Weather Network and MétéoMédia are introducing TrafficEye Mobile to Canada in what is being billed as the first time a service with immediate weather and…
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LEAVE IT TO SHAW to not only demand genre protection go away, but to use a lovely incendiary word that broadcasters have long used against cable: monopoly.
When Shaw…
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TORONTO – The CRTC must maintain its Canadian content spending requirements for Canadian pay and specialty TV services, the Coalition of Canadian Audio-Visual Unions (CCAU) stated Wednesday in a…
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WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE highest profile issue CRTC commissioners will tackle beginning next week’s policy hearings on broadcast distribution undertakings and specialty services is fee-for-carriage. That is, paying a…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The CRTC will be questioning commercial radio station CJMS Saint-Constant over its failure to once again meet its contributions to Canadian content development.
The CRTC has added…
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TORONTO – The March 14 debut of the Canadian live-action series The Latest Buzz garnered the biggest-ever audience for a series premiere on Family Channel, it was announced Wednesday….
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TORONTO – Musicians Elvis Costello and Elton John will collaborate on a new television co-production series that was conceived in Canada and will be broadcast later this year on…
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TORONTO – Chris Gordon has been appointed president of CTVglobemedia’s radio division, which consists of the CHUM radio stations it acquired, it was announced Wednesday.
His appointment is effective…
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