TORONTO - CanWest Global is pulling the income trust it created less than two years ago to hold its newspapers and some other assets back into the fold. In legalspeak:... Continue Reading
LETHBRIDGE – The president and co-founder of national Christian channel The Miracle Channel, has resigned. In a letter to supporters, the Miracle Channel Association said it has accepted the resignation... Continue Reading
ST. JOHN's – The CBC plan to expand its supper hour news programs from 30 to 60 minutes without increasing local news budgets is a bad idea, says TV watchdog... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The Canadian Association of Broadcasters has restructured so that the issues facing its members are looked at as a whole and not so much within the traditional silos... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – After a lenient lower court sentencing of a pedophile, the hosts of TQS program L’Avocat et le diable teed off on the judge last May 31. And, they... Continue Reading
TORONTO – CTV and Rogers today announced new three-year television deals with the National Football League beginning next season, shutting out CanWest Global, which has carried American football for decades.Financial... Continue Reading
TORONTO – With Canadian broadcasters in Los Angeles now viewing this fall's potential U.S. hits (not to mention the great big misses) – and making commitments to buy, too, Canada's actors... Continue Reading
MONTREAL - Like every other conventional television broadcaster in English Canada, Quebec’s Télévision Quatre-Saisons (TQS) had argued for the CRTC’s acceptance of carriage fees to help OTAs compete with fee-supported... Continue Reading
OTTAWA - "It’s a missed opportunity," says Guy Mayson, summing up the Canadian Film and Television Production Association’s overall reaction to the CRTC's new over-the-air TV policy. Speaking to Cartt.ca... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – As we told you on Monday, the CRTC will release its new policy on conventional, over-the-air television. In fact, it will be released today. The primary issue is... Continue Reading
