TORONTO – Investors have bid up CanWest Global Communications shares 24% over the past three weeks in anticipation of a big move in Australia.
CanWest shares closed at $10.65…
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TORONTO – CanWest MediaWorks said today it will expand the chopper coverage for its Global News and CH News properties in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Hamilton.
In conjunction…
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TORONTO – The owners of Bridges TV took their fight for carriage on Rogers Cable to the media late on Wednesday.
An incendiary press release from the English-language Muslim…
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TORONTO – Travel + Escape, the re-branded CTV Travel channel, will launch Monday, October 30 at 12:01 am ET.
Said to be "an edgier evolution of its predecessor," according…
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TORONTO – Kimberley Perdue has been hired as manager of affiliate relations at Channel Zero, owner of specialty services Movieola – The Short Film Channel and Silver Screen Classics….
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TORONTO – GolTV Canada and World Fishing Network were launched on Bell ExpressVu today.
GolTV is Canada’s first 24-hour soccer network, airing more than 1,500 matches a year, with…
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TORONTO – XM Canada today hired former talk show host Mike Bullard to host a new morning show on its Canadian comedy channel, Laugh Attack.
"Mike Bullard Uncensored," which…
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TORONTO – BBM Analytics announced Wednesday it will assume the role of official sales and marketing partner for CBC/Radio Canada’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM).
CBC/Radio-Canada’s MTM is "a comprehensive…
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WINNIPEG – A 6.6% decline in revenue and a 26% drop in EBITDA shows just how hard the Australian ad market has turned around on CanWest Global Communications within…
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I’VE GOT A BIT OF A SOFT spot for the CBC because when you grew up where I did, the CBC was it.
Apologies to CTV’s Northern Ontario precursor, MCTV,…
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