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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TORONTO – Wanda Bradley, manager of sales operation at NBC/Universal, and Michelle Marion, director of Canadian independent production at Astral Television Networks have been elected to the 2007 board…
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Toronto – The Fight Network has inked a deal to launch a daily news and talk show called Fight Network Radio that will be broadcast on Hardcore Sports Radio,…
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TORONTO – Digital TV channels WFN: World Fishing Network and GOLTV: Soccer 24/7 have been added to Shaw Digital Cable, channel owner Insight Sports Ltd. announced Tuesday.
“Shaw strives…
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IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME coming, but Canada’s etc.tv appears ready for prime time.
The company’s platform lets viewers use their TV remotes to “telescope” into long form advertising…
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