OTTAWA-GATINEAU – Well, this will douse some of the fire that was sure to burn at this week’s Canadian Film and Television Producers Association Prime Time conference in Ottawa…
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VANCOUVER – Well-known Canadian broadcast engineer and technologist Ed Yiu has joined Olympic Broadcast Services Vancouver (OBSV) as director of broadcast telecommunications.
Yiu (pictured) brings over 30 years of…
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WASHINGTON and NEW YORK – With both companies still awash in a sea of red ink, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio today announced they will merge in…
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OTTAWA – Saying he is "sufficiently assured" that change is in the works with the Canadian Television Fund, Jim Shaw told the Standing Committee of Canadian Heritage this morning…
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GATINEAU – Saying the proposed new digital channel infringed on the genre protection of existing Canadian specialties, the CRTC denied a category two digital specialty service license to Cosmo…
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TORONTO – Actors’ union ACTRA said on Saturday that it had a tentative agreement to end its two month old strike.
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio…
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WASHINGTON and NEW YORK – With both companies still awash in a sea of red ink, XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio today announced they will merge in…
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TORONTO – Canadian tweens (who are kids who aren’t quite teenagers and aren’t quite young kids any more) have a new massively multiplayer online game site to explore.
Thebigrip.com…
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OTTAWA – That’s the question the legal eagles at Telus are wrestling with this week.
Last week’s mobile TV exemption order made it clear that wireless carriers are…
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OTTAWA – Calling particular pieces of footage "explosive" or "horrifying" is not enough warning for viewers, says the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.
A segment of Entertainment Tonight broadcast on…
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