TORONTO – The CBC will launch a website called CBC Aboriginal on June 21, which is National Aboriginal Day. The website, at www.cbc.ca/aboriginal, will contain CBC’s coverage of Aboriginal…
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TORONTO – A professional video game league, Major League Gaming, has launched in Canada, allowing video game players to earn prize money and rise through the ranks to secure…
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Companies wanting to operate power-generating wind farms close to radio transmitters should first notify and consult with radio broadcasters, according to guidelines developed by the Radio Advisory Board of…
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TORONTO – Is Afghanistan Canada’s Vietnam? This is one of the panel topics on the agenda of the sold-out RTNDA Canada national conference, running June 21-23 at Vancouver’s Sutton…
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TORONTO – Global Ontario was named Monday the winner of the 2007 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Continuing Coverage in a large market from the U.S. Radio-Television…
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OTTAWA – The deadline for submissions for the third annual Pitch THIS! – a pitching session for animation projects organized in conjunction with the Television Animation Conference – is…
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TORONTO –Corus Entertainment Inc. announced Monday it has inked a $1.1 million agreement to buy Sherbrooke radio station CIGR-FM (Génération Rock) from Groupe Génération Rock Inc.
The sale is…
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WINNIPEG – CanWest Global Communications Corp. announced Monday that it intends to maintain its 56% stake in Australia’s third largest television network, Ten.
The Canadian broadcaster said in a…
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BROADCASTERS ANYWHERE IN the western world face similar challenges. Fragmentation. Multi-platform viewing. The decline of appointment TV. PVRs. You name it. There are multiple, growing hazards for traditional broadcasters…
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TORONTO – CanWest Global Communications Corp. is raising $950 million by putting into place new senior secured credit facilities.
More than half of that will be syndicated by the…
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