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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MONTREAL – The CRTC today approved a quartet of AM-to-FM station flips for Corus Radio.
CKRS (Saguenay), CHLT (Sherbrooke), CHLN (Trois-Rivières) and CJRC (Gatineau) – all news/talk stations –…
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TORONTO – After a very slow start compared to our U.S. broadcast counterparts, Canadian ‘casters are getting into the broadband viewing market in a much bigger way.
After counting 120,000 streams of…
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OTTAWA – Parliament’s Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has decided it won’t wait for the federal government to take the lead on an official review of the Canadian Broadcasting…
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TORONTO – Paul Ski, the head of CHUM Limited’s radio division, has been promoted to president of CHUM Radio.
Ski was formerly executive vice-president radio, responsible for all CHUM…
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TORONTO – Sirius Canada said today that after a year in the market, it now has over 200,000 customers.
That’s more than double its rival in the market, XM…
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MONTREAL – Designed and built by HJC Productions, the Montreal Exchange opened its brand new broadcasting and webcasting studio this week.
"The studio has been designed to enable Montreal…
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TORONTO – IMG senior executive Kevin Albrecht has joined Insight Sports Ltd. as president and CEO, the company announced Tuesday.
Current CEO Ron Bremner will become the new vice-chairman…
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