MONTREAL – Higher subscription revenues at Quebecor Media’s specialty TV channels combined with lower content costs for its over-the-air channels drove revenues in its broadcasting sector up 2.6%, or by…
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OAKVILLE – Emergency management authorities in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island used The Weather Network’s localization technology this week to issue test emergency warnings to the…
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TORONTO – Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. last month launched three new video-on-demand (VOD) services on Rogers Cable.
The VOD channels for the specialty TV broadcaster’s HGTV, Food Network and…
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TORONTO – CHUM Ltd. is turning to its archives and former DJs to celebrate the 50th year in operation of its 1050 CHUM radio station.
The radio station is…
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OTTAWA – Auditor-General Sheila Fraser isn’t as worried about the appointment process at the CBC as Friends of Canadian Broadcasting Corp. or the unions, which complain it’s too political.
Asked…
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TORONTO – The fairness hearing in connection with CanWest Global Communications’ purchase of Alliance Atlantis Communications’ has been re-scheduled to June 15 at the request of the specialty TV…
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WINNIPEG – Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) is offering to foot the bill to produce a music video for a song featured on a CD for up to five…
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TORONTO – Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. says traffic to its user-generated video website called blogtv.ca reached 411,000 unique visitors in March 2007, and then doubled that in April. The service currently…
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TORONTO – The current season of 360 Vision, the flagship current affairs series of multi-faith and multicultural channel VisionTV, will be the last.
The show isn’t being renewed after…
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TORONTO – Motion Picture Distribution LP, which is majority owned by Alliance Atlantis Communications, recorded a profit of $4.4 million in the first quarter ended March 31, compared to $5.2…
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