YEARS AGO, WHEN MICROSOFT launched the Xbox gaming platform, a long-time cable engineer I know told me something like "there’s your future set top box."
At the time, I…
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TORONTO – Billing it as Canada’s first "self-personalizing" home page, mysportsnet.ca is just about set for release.
"Mysportsnet.ca will revolutionize how users of the web manipulate their personal content,"…
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TORONTO – Tom Hastings has been hired as executive in charge of production for TV Drama, Arts & Entertainment at the CBC. He started last week.
He comes to…
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TORONTO – Ethnic video streamer JumpTV has launched a live chat feature on all of its live channels and pay per view events broadcast on JumpTV.com. The new chat…
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TORONTO – "I had a wife, four kids and a mortgage," says Dr. Stephen Timmer when asked what inspired him to create his own software designed specifically for people…
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TORONTO – The CRTC has approved the plan of arrangement between Alliance Atlantis and CanWest Global that will run Alliance Atlantis until the Commission can decide on the purchase…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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