TORONTO – Citing serious debt concerns, Dominion Bond Rating Service placed its ratings of CanWest MediaWorks "under review with negative implications" yesterday, "(D)ue to weakness in more of the company’s... Continue Reading
OTTAWA and TORONTO – CHUM Television's A-Channel Ottawa announced today that it is cutting 19 full time and four part time positions as part of a company-wide purge of 281... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Saying it needs to enhance its prospects among potential viewers and BDUs, Catholic TV channel Salt and Light wants to change to an English specialty service. The category... Continue Reading
TORONTO – Bell Globemedia wants to pay $1.7 billion for CHUM Limited. As reported earlier today, BGM will pay $52.50 per common share and $47.25 per non-voting class B share.... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union wants the CRTC to stop the layoffs at CHUM Television announced today – despite the fact the Commission has no such power.... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – Harsh, potentially over-the-top criticism, is fair ball the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council said today. The CBSC today released a decision on a complaint about Bruce Allen’s Reality Check,... Continue Reading
TORONTO - CTV News has scored an exclusive interview with Russian president Vladimir Putin, and its airing at 3 p.m. this (Tuesday) afternoon is just the beginning. It's the first... Continue Reading
MONTREAL – While the company's Rythme FM radio revenue is still rising, Cogeco Inc.'s television division is still a drag on earnings.Cogeco Inc. president and CEO Louis Audet told a... Continue Reading
OTTAWA – After delaying the deadline earlier this year due to the uncertainty surrounding the timing of the CRTC's television policy review, the Commission has announced that license applications for... Continue Reading
FORMER ASTRAL TELEVISION chief executive Lisa de Wilde told Cartt.ca she was just "waiting for the right opportunity to come along" between the time she left Astral in 2001 until... Continue Reading
