THE CRTC's TELEVISION POLICY Review hearing, which gets under way this morning with the CBC facing the commissioners, will have everyone involved in the Canadian TV industry on tenterhooks for... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – There just isn't enough cash in the system for conventional broadcasters to convert to digital television, representatives from CBC and TQS told the CRTC today. And the only... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – While the broadcasters who air their work were facing the Commission, Canadian actors descended on Ottawa today, too, to talk about what they see as a "drama crisis"... Continue Reading
TORONTO – CTV's hit home-grown comedy, Corner Gas, will begin airing on American superstation WGN in 2007, the company announced today, placing the residents of Dog River, Saskatchewan in over... Continue Reading
NEXT WEEK IN OTTAWA, TV broadcasters will tell their regulator, the CRTC, that they want fewer rules and more ways to make money. They will raise the alarm about how... Continue Reading
OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Jim Pattison Broadcast Group's $15.75 million purchase of O.K. Radio's Vancouver Island stations was approved by the CRTC today. As first reported in May by Cartt.ca, O.K.'s owners, Rogers... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – The CRTC today approved a quartet of AM-to-FM station flips for Corus Radio. CKRS (Saguenay), CHLT (Sherbrooke), CHLN (Trois-Rivières) and CJRC (Gatineau) – all news/talk stations – will... Continue Reading
TORONTO – After a very slow start compared to our U.S. broadcast counterparts, Canadian 'casters are getting into the broadband viewing market in a much bigger way. After counting 120,000 streams of episodes... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Parliament's Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has decided it won't wait for the federal government to take the lead on an official review of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Paul Ski, the head of CHUM Limited's radio division, has been promoted to president of CHUM Radio. Ski was formerly executive vice-president radio, responsible for all CHUM Radio... Continue Reading
