AFTER SPENDING A LOT OF time thinking about and writing about the idea of charging a new fee for something people can get for free – over-the-air, broadcast television,…
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TORONTO – Today, it’s the new marketing folks who are front and centre in a Canwest personnel release, post Alliance Atlantis merger.
Walter Levitt, Chief Marketing Officer at Canwest…
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TORONTO – The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) has asked the CRTC for a license for new, must-carry, English and French amateur sport television channels.
If approved, the proposed Canadian…
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TORONTO – Television in Canada continues to outperform all other media, the Television Bureau of Canada reports today.
Despite concerns in some circles regarding the effect an ongoing writer’s…
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TORONTO – WFN: World Fishing Network and Canadian National Sportsmen’s Shows have announced a strategic partnership for the 2008 season that will see both companies team up to promote…
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TORONTO – Barbara Williams, Canwest Broadcasting’s executive vice-president, content, made official her new direct reports last week, pulling together the assets of both Global Television and the newly acquired…
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OTTAWA – With the public hearing on the Canadian Television Fund Task Force Report beginning Monday (Cartt.ca will be there, of course), the CTF launched a new…
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LOS ANGELES – CBS will broadcast a new CTV original Canadian drama series currently in pre-production as the American network has picked up Flashpoint (working title, a.k.a. Sniper) for…
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WILL RETURN NEXT WEEK with S-Vox president and CEO Bill Roberts, who says independent broadcasters are the “canaries in the coal mine” and will be first to detect if…
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TORONTO – The line of direct reports to Errol Da-Ré, executive vice president, sales at Canwest Broadcasting has been clarified.
This announcement follows the CRTC’s recent approval of Canwest’s…
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