MONTREAL – While the broadcast industry heavyweights talk (and talk and talk) in Ottawa, their newsgathering organizations begin covering the Liberal Leadership Convention in Montreal today and this time,…
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WHEN YOU CRITICIZE consumer media columnists for not taking a stand on certain things as I did yesterday over the lack of opinion on the CRTC’s TV Review, you’ve got to…
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TORONTO – MuchMusic is asking its viewers to produce their own Canadian content.
The music station wants fans of Canadian pop rockers Hedley to submit their own versions of…
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FEE-FOR-CARRIAGE will happen.
There. I said it. I don’t like it and sure don’t want to pay it, but I’ve come to believe – thanks to my talks and…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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