OTTAWA – The CBC has won the rights to broadcast the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cup and other soccer games in a seven-year deal.
CBC/Radio-Canada, in partnership with…
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WINNIPEG – CanWest Global Communications has been awarded its second radio licence in the U.K., to operate an FM in Bristol, west of London.
Original 106fm will play an…
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TORONTO – CTV has finished converting its new Winnipeg studio in a fully digital environment.
The Winnipeg station is the first CTV facility to move to a completely digital…
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TORONTO – National advertising sales on radio have risen a healthy amount, according to figures from imsradio, the Standard Radio division that sells airtime for several broadcasters.
National radio…
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By Glenn Wanamaker
Quebec media columnists are openly wondering this week how long 75-year-old Guy Fournier, an award-winning film producer, scriptwriter, journalist, and author, can remain…
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HORSESHOE VALLEY, Ont. – With well over 270 delegates last week, the Central Canada Broadcast Engineers 2006 conference saw a 20%-plus jump in attendance, say organizers.
Beginning Thursday with…
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THE CEOs ARE IN AGREEMENT. Canadian media companies must get bigger in order to still matter. The problem is that those companies also agree on one other thing: They’re…
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TORONTO – Saying that XM Canada is in a better place now than its American counterparts were at the same point in their launch, XM Canada president and COO…
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TORONTO – Saying that the hearings and subsequent licensing of a new pay TV player boosted its expenses, Corus Entertainment eliminated 83 positions on Tuesday as part of…
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TORONTO – According to CanWest Global CEO Leonard Asper, things are looking up for Global Television.
"Looking at the fall (ad) bookings, it’s looking good," Asper told the BMO…
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