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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OTTAWA – After a lenient lower court sentencing of a pedophile, the hosts of TQS program L’Avocat et le diable teed off on the judge last May 31. And,…
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TORONTO – CTV and Rogers today announced new three-year television deals with the National Football League beginning next season, shutting out CanWest Global, which has carried American football for…
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TORONTO – With Canadian broadcasters in Los Angeles now viewing this fall’s potential U.S. hits (not to mention the great big misses) – and making commitments to buy, too, Canada’s…
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MONTREAL – Like every other conventional television broadcaster in English Canada, Quebec’s Télévision Quatre-Saisons (TQS) had argued for the CRTC’s acceptance of carriage fees to help OTAs compete with…
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