TORONTO – Established to support Alberta’s independent production community, the CanWest Alberta Fund (CAF) will offer $10.5 million over the next seven years to finance the production of drama,…
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OTTAWA – CBC-owned digital music service Galaxie turns 10 years old this week and is available in more than six million households in Canada through their cable or satellite…
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MONTREAL – Quebec’s TV industry kicked off the new fall season Sunday by honouring its top shows and best performers from the past year, during the prime time awards…
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EDMONTON – Yet-to-be-launched digital pay service Superchannel said today it has signed a deal with Maple Pictures, where Superchannel will be the exclusive broadcaster of Maple Pictures’ latest theatrical…
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EDMONTON and CALGARY – Christian broadcaster Crossroads Television System will be up and running in Alberta very soon, the company announced this week.
Burlington, Ont.-based CTS has appointed Drew…
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TORONTO – The Fight Network, which has battled heavyweight after heavyweight on its way from an independent digi-net to growing multiplatform brand, announced this morning a new round of…
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TORONTO – Not to be outdone by CanWest’s CH stations’ transition to celebrity-focused E! tomorrow, CTV today announced a multiplatform deal with celebscandal web site TMZ.com.
TMZ.com is…
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EDMONTON – Superchannel announced this morning that daytime soap Passions will air on the new pay TV channel beginning this fall.
Passions fans were in danger of no longer…
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OTTAWA – The 2007 Canadian Association of Broadcasters convention happens right in Ottawa this November and look for the group to focus on the future and how it will…
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TORONTO – Think Toronto’s the centre of the universe? Okay, maybe it isn’t, but the city’s hockey team is surely the centre of the Canadian sports broadcaster universe.
No…
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