TORONTO – Starz, LLC, unveiled the U.S. media company’s state-of-the-art animation studio in Toronto Tuesday, and announced the appointment of veteran animation executive David Steinberg to run it.
The…
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TORONTO – Puff TV Ltd., a pre-school interactive video-on-demand (VOD) channel based in Tel Aviv, has signed a VOD deal with Nelvana Enterprises for The Backyardigans, the hit co-production…
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TORONTO – VisionTV, Canada’s multi-faith and multicultural television network, has produced a one-hour panel discussion program to accompany its broadcast of the controversial two-part mini series “Prairie Giant: The…
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TORONTO – Satellite radio provider XM Canada is adding a kids channel and several sports channels to its growing line-up.
Starting Monday, the network is plugging in the U.S….
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TORONTO – Playhouse Disney Canada, a multiplex channel for young children, will be launched Nov. 30th, Astral Media’s Family Channel announced Monday.
The channel will feature entertaining and development-based…
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OTTAWA – Yes, Virginia, there really is a way to earn separate revenues for multi-platform content linked to an existing TV series, and it really is possible to ensure…
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OTTAWA – Family Channel’s manager of original production, Sandra Walmark, told an audience of animation professionals at the Ottawa International Animation Festival that the pay channel is looking to…
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MONTREAL – Radio-Canada said today it has served Cogeco Inc.-controlled broadcaster TQS with a notice of disaffiliation.
By virtue of a contractual agreement Radio-Canada’s Television programming is presently broadcasted…
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TORONTO – John Cruickshank, currently publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and chief operating officer of the Chicago Sun-Times Media Group, has been named publisher of CBC News.
He is…
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TORONTO – The NBA’s Toronto Raptors will be seen on five different channels this year, including the CBC, the team announced Wednesday.
All 82 regular-season contests will be televised…
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