QUEBEC – The CRTC’s recent decision to transfer the licence of this city’s troublesome CHOI-FM from Genex Communications to Radio Nord Communications has not gone over well with at…
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GATINEAU – Organizations representing many persistent voices opposed to Canada’s 1999 over-the-air television policy – along with a rare cameo by the Ontario Culture Minister – took the stage…
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TORONTO – Despite the hue and cry over the supposed nasty effects of new media, radio, a so-called old media, continues to post gains here in Canada.
According to…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Rogers Media’s $39.6 million purchase of O.K. Radio Group’s Alberta radio stations was approved by the CRTC on Wednesday.
This comes on the heels of the Commission’s…
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TORONTO – Saying it wants to try different things, CBC is canceling its early evening national newscast, Canada Now.
Canada Now is anchored out of Vancouver by Ian Hanomansing…
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OTTAWA-GATINEAU – The stroller and drool set may soon have a high definition home of their own.
The CRTC Thursday granted a category two digital specialty service license for…
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GATINEAU – If the CCTA was still around, it wouldn’t have been able to find consensus among its members for the CRTC’s TV Policy Review either.
While the schisms…
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GATINEAU – As the so-called softer side of the industry comes to the fore over the next few, final days of the CRTC TV Policy Review hearing, groups like…
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TORONTO – XM Canada has signed a multi-year agreement to supply music content to all of Air Canada’s customers, the two companies announced.
Effective March 1, 2007, XM Canada…
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TORONTO – Three Corus Television marketers have been kicked upstairs.
Laura Baehr, previously director marketing, YTV, has been promoted to VP Marketing, Kids Television. In this role, Baehr is…
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