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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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MIRABEL, Que. – Canadian manufacturer Kangaroo Media will see its in-stadium multimedia service expanded into additional National Football League stadiums this coming fall.
Kangaroo and DirecTV announced the expansion…
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TORONTO – Saying that the proposed sale of Alliance Atlantis violates Canadian media foreign ownership rules, the Coalition of Canadian Audio Visual Unions has told the CRTC the deal…
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