OTTAWA – Lower-cost shows like reality and game shows may be one reason why Canadian producers’ revenues from TV productions continue to fall, Statistics Canada reports.
In 2004, film…
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OTTAWA – Two broadcasters have been found by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council to have violated their standards, the CBSC announced today.
The first decision involves two reports on…
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TORONTO – Monday Night Raw is going to The Score.
On Wednesday, World Wrestling Entertainment and the headline sports channel will make official a deal that is already a…
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TORONTO – BBM released its latest round of radio ratings Monday afternoon, and the pecking order was shuffled a little in Toronto and Vancouver.
The A12+ top line results…
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OTTAWA – Bell Globemedia’s $1.7 billion offer to purchase CHUM Ltd. last Wednesday is sounding some alarm bells among producers and journalists, especially given CHUM’s layoff of…
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GATINEAU – A Télé-Québec public affairs show was not racist when it broadcast episodes critical of Islam, the CRTC has found.
The commission received complaints from some viewers who…
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TORONTO – TSN has nabbed sportscaster Darren Dreger away from Sportsnet. Dreger, who has 19 years in the biz, begins July 31 as TSN’s Hockey Insider, alongside Bob McKenzie….
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TORONTO – Alliance Atlantis has licensed second-window rights for its popular CSI franchise, worth a total of about US$250 million, the company announced.
The multinational deal involves the original…
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GATINEAU – The CRTC is calling for applications for new radio stations in Sydney, N.S. and Sudbury, Ont.
The commission has received an application for a commercial station…
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TORONTO – TSN is rebuilding the set of its flagship SportsCentre sportscast to go fully high definition in the fall.
It will be the first daily Canadian news program,…
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