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
TORONTO – CTV's latest series will be shown only on CTV.ca All Access, a spin-off of Canadian Idol, will premier July 20 on CTV.ca as a weekly show which takes viewers behind... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Canadian Internet broadcaster JumpTV is expanding its product offering from its current roster of ethnic channels to a large, English language sports offering. Jump announced Tuesday it has... Continue Reading
WINNIPEG – After 33 years with the company, CanWest Global's Canadian operations CEO Peter Viner has decided to retire, the company said today. Viner joined CanWest in 1974 as vice-president... Continue Reading
VANCOUVER – Most Canadians check e-mail and visit news web sites at least once a day, feel rather positive about the Internet and many personal digital devices, and rely on... Continue Reading