TORONTO – Three months after cancelling the long-running 11:30 p.m. sports highlights show Sportsline (I mean, Global Sports) Global News Ontario has decided to eliminate its sports division altogether.In its... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The idea that Canada’s signal distributors should pay conventional broadcasters fees to carry their signals is “trash” according to Rogers Communications CEO Ted Rogers. Speaking to reporters Wednesday... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Just weeks after eliminating the printed version of TV Guide, owner Transcontinental Media today announced the availability of the brand's television listings and other new online television content... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – With its current contract expiring on New Year's Eve, actors and producers started talking again this week. "We told them again today that our members will not accept... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Bell ExpressVu has signed a new long-term agreement with Game Show Network. Actually, the U.S. cable channel now just goes by GSN, the network for games, and has... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – While the broadcast industry heavyweights talk (and talk and talk) in Ottawa, their newsgathering organizations begin covering the Liberal Leadership Convention in Montreal today and this time, they... Continue Reading
WHEN YOU CRITICIZE consumer media columnists for not taking a stand on certain things as I did yesterday over the lack of opinion on the CRTC's TV Review, you've got to recognize those... Continue Reading
TORONTO – MuchMusic is asking its viewers to produce their own Canadian content. The music station wants fans of Canadian pop rockers Hedley to submit their own versions of the... Continue Reading
FEE-FOR-CARRIAGE will happen. There. I said it. I don't like it and sure don't want to pay it, but I've come to believe – thanks to my talks and travels... Continue Reading
THE CRTC's TELEVISION POLICY Review hearing, which gets under way this morning with the CBC facing the commissioners, will have everyone involved in the Canadian TV industry on tenterhooks for... Continue Reading
